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THE GUGGENHEIMS: AN AMERICAN EPIC by John H. Davis Morrow; 608 pages; $14.95
Neither. The group is really hard at work. They are part of an 18-member malting and brewing science lab class that has just tasted and discarded a conditioned-in-the-bottle ale. The only college course on brewing in the U.S., the lab comes under the auspices of Davis...
Not far from Cruess Hall, Dinsmoor Webb, a trained chemist, heads an even bubblier enterprise: Davis' 98-year-old program of viticulture (grape production) and oenology (winemaking technology), the foremost facility and oldest department in the country.* A diminutive figure who sports dashing mixes of plaid shirts, tweed jackets...
Webb's domain extends underground to a huge wine cellar where some 95,000 bottles of student wine are aging gracefully. Like the beer, alas, all 95,000 bottles will go right down the drain once a panel of faculty and staff has rated their taste and bouquet. Along...
Author John H. Davis has discovered in the Guggenheims his own rich vein of biography; his book fails only in the leaden prose. But Davis' unerring eye for anecdotes surmounts most stylistic obstacles and makes The Guggenheims a consistently fascinating saga.