{"id":16826,"date":"2022-01-19T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=16826"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:09:58","slug":"book-learning-fruity-peach-ethyl-octanoate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/book-learning-fruity-peach-ethyl-octanoate\/","title":{"rendered":"Book learning: fruity, peach = ethyl octanoate"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned Monday, when asked to contribute a list of \u201cbest books\u201d to a new-ish book recommendation website I chose five related to aroma and flavor<\/a>. You can see my picks here.<\/p>\n

Whether the books did or did not specifically mention beer mattered little when I made the selections. However, since you are here for the beer, a couple of beer-related excerpts.<\/p>\n

First, from Luca Turin in \u201cThe Emperor of Scent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at beer, which is a very interesting cultural product. Beer smells like a burp. Gasses from someone\u2019s stomach. Lovely. Again a product of fermentation, which is to say decay. Decay enhances smells and flavors, yet we have a sharp ability to identify decay, because decaying things will kill you. Bacterial and yeast decomposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich can give you \u2018I wouldn\u2019t touch that in a million years\u2019 and, at the same time and in the same culture, mind you, \u2018I will pay great sums to consume Rodenbach,\u2019 which is a miracle of a beer from Belgium. A miraculous, powdery apple flavor. Those Rodenbach yeast have an I.Q. of at least two hundred. Fucking genius yeast.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second, a rather simple* table from \u201cNose Dive,\u201d<\/a> which really is the field guide the full title promises.<\/p>\n

\"Table<\/p>\n

* Simple compared, for instance, to the one for \u201cpungent spices: mustards and peppers.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you click around the site you will see each entry includes a “closely related book lists.” It pleases me that the one list related to mine is from Gordon Shepherd, since one of his books is among the five I point to. But, dang, I wish there were more lists related to aroma and flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As mentioned Monday, when asked to contribute a list of \u201cbest books\u201d to a new-ish book recommendation website I chose five related to aroma and flavor. You can see my picks here. Whether the books did or did not specifically mention beer mattered little when I made the selections. However, since you are here for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-indigenous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4no","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19540,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16826\/revisions\/19540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}