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The Pocket Homebrew Handbook: 75 recipes for the aspiring backyard brewer
Rise up against the watery, wimpish beers you generally find on store shelves and produce your own beers packed with big, bold flavors.
Following the explosion of interest in properly brewed beer, "The Pocket Homebrew Handbook" is here to provide the knowledge to allow beer enthusiasts to make their own. Packed with 75 recipes for everything from stouts and porters to IPAs and wheat beers, you will learn how easy it is to brew your own beers bursting with taste. So whether you like a hoppy, crisp finish or a biscuity, malty taste you are certain to find the right beer for you. A comprehensive introduction provides all the information needed to get started, explaining the key ingredients and how they work together, plus the equipment you'll need. Soon you will understand the intricacies of full-mash brewing and be well on your way to making beers you can be proud of. The aim is to encourage you to experiment, not reproduce beers you have enjoyed in the past—by mastering the basic types of beer, you can go on to produce your own. It's how the best microbreweries started, why not follow their lead?
Following the explosion of interest in properly brewed beer, "The Pocket Homebrew Handbook" is here to provide the knowledge to allow beer enthusiasts to make their own. Packed with 75 recipes for everything from stouts and porters to IPAs and wheat beers, you will learn how easy it is to brew your own beers bursting with taste. So whether you like a hoppy, crisp finish or a biscuity, malty taste you are certain to find the right beer for you. A comprehensive introduction provides all the information needed to get started, explaining the key ingredients and how they work together, plus the equipment you'll need. Soon you will understand the intricacies of full-mash brewing and be well on your way to making beers you can be proud of. The aim is to encourage you to experiment, not reproduce beers you have enjoyed in the past—by mastering the basic types of beer, you can go on to produce your own. It's how the best microbreweries started, why not follow their lead?
192 pages, Paperback
First published April 5, 2012
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March 7, 2013
This contains a decent array of standard recipes and goes over the basics of making beer. The font and page design are a bit over the top and make this reference book a little hard to read. The one thing that made it stand out to me was that it contains a table listing the most common type of hops and their many aliases (ex: Citra hops, aka Cascade, Centenial, or Ahtanum). This is something I had not seen before, so this one gets an extra star.
February 17, 2013
This book gets three stars solely on the basis that it contains a good amount of recipes for brews that you can use or alter for you own beers. Don't buy it for the advice on home-brewing as it lacks any real detail and following it will probably lead to some disappointment. Bet stick to John Palmer's 'How To Brew' and Charlie Papazian's 'The Complete Joy of Home-brewing (Third Edition)'. I've used those two as my guide and hardly a thing has gone wrong with our brews to date.
September 18, 2023
Looking into a new hobby. Helped work out what I might need
January 11, 2014
Tried 2 - recipes aren't that great. Having better luck with recipes online. The pictures sure are nice though.
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