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Home Brewing by John Parkes
This new handbook book includes everything you’ll need to brew a variety of beers at home, from the equipment and techniques needed, to inside secrets from a professional brewer. John Parkes, an experienced brewmaster, explains how anyone can produce delicious beer with the help of just some basic equipment and a few key skills. Those new to home brewing will love the easy-to-follow instructions adept home brewers will be delighted by the original recipes. Made without unnecessary chemicals and additives, the beers featured here will appeal to anyone seeking a more self-sufficient lifestyle-and they taste great! About the Self-Sufficiency Series: More and more Americans are becoming concerned about living a healthier land more environmental
, 128 pp, $18.95. Buy
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Brewing Classic Styles by Jamil Zainasheff and John J. Palmer
Award-winning brewer Jamil Zainasheff teams up with homebrewing expert John J. Palmer to share award-winning recipes for each of the 80-plus competition styles. Using extract-based recipes for most categories, the duo gives sure-footed guidance to brewers interested in reproducing classic beer styles for their own enjoyment or to enter into competitions.
Paperback, 317 pp, $27.95. Buy
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A Guide to Craft Brewing by John Alexander
The Guide to Craft Brewing explains how to brew your own beer in clear and straightforward terms, making this popular and rewarding hobby accessible to all.
Paperback, 160 pp, $41.95. Buy
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Michigan Breweries by Paul Ruschmann and Maryanne Nasiatka
A guide to 66 breweries and brewpubs, with a history of brewing in the state and information about types of beer produced at each site, tours, food served, and nearby lodging and attractions
Paperback, 265 pp, $23.95. Buy
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Basic Homebrewing by Stacy Tibbets
Teaches essential techniques through instructions, revealing a process for home brewing. This book familiarises you with both the technology that makes brewing possible as well as the malts, hops, and additives that give a beer its flavour.
Paperback, 84 pp, $27.95. Buy
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How to Brew by John J. Palmer
This substantially revised and expanded third edition includes everything that’s needed to brew beer right the first time. Presented in a light-hearted style, this authoritative text introduces brewing in a easy step-by-step review that covers the essentials of making good beer. It includes ingredients, methods, recipes and equipment information. Beyond the first batch, it provides an accessible reference to intermediate techniques like all-grain brewing variations and recipe formulation. It is a must for any novice or intermediate brewer perfect for anyone who has discovered the joy of home-brewing
Paperback, 347 pp, $27.95. Buy
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Brewing Yeast and Fermentation by Chris Boulton and David Quain
This work is now available for the first time in paperback! This unique volume provides a definitive overview of modern and traditional brewing fermentation. Written by two experts with unrivalled experience from years with a leading international brewer, coverage includes all aspects of brewing fermentation together with the biochemistry, physiology and genetics of brewers’ yeast. Brewing Yeast and Fermentation is unique in that brewing fermentation and yeast biotechnology are covered in detail from a commercial perspective. Now available for the first time in paperback, this book is aimed at commercial brewers and their ingredient and equipment suppliers (including packaging manufacturers). It is also an essential reference source for stu
Paperback, 656 pp, $99.95. Buy
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Microbrewed Adventures by Charlie Papazian
Shares many of Charlie Papazian’s – an unofficial beer ambassador – travel experiences. In addition to the stories, he provides lessons in proper beer tasting and a collection of recipes inspired by unique craft-beers and the innovative brewers who lead the charge to change beer in America
Paperback, 304 pp, $22.95. Buy
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Wildbrews by Jeff Sparrow
Explores the world of Lambics, Flanders red and brown beers and American brews. This work includes coverage of wood-barrel aging, blending and the use of fruit in wild fermentations
Paperback, 315 pp, $25.95. Buy
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The Big Book of Brewing by Dave Line
This book, first published in 1985, brings to beginners and experts alike a simple method of ’mashing’ for producing the finest flavoured British beers, real ales, stouts and lagers from all-grain ingredients. It is an advanced and comprehensive guide to mashing and brewing.
Paperback, 254 pp, $16.99. Buy
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Home Brewers Companion by Charlie Papazian
Includes detailed charts, techniques and equipment information, as well as 60 recipes
Paperback, $20.95. Buy
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North America Clone Brews by Russell
Well over 100 extract, mini-mash, and all-grain recipes that will allow homebrewers to duplicate their favorite award-winning American and Canadian microbrewery beers.
Paperback, 192 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Complete Joy of Homebrewing by Charles Papazian
An updated edition of the classic guide to home brewing provides a treasury of favourite recipes, advice, and lore for beginning through advanced homebrewers. Explains how to make all different types of beer -including stouts, ales, lagers, bitters, meads
Paperback, 399 pp, $22.95. Buy
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Smoked Beers by Ray Daniels and Geoffrey Larson
It’s all in the wood. Anyone who loves smoke — in food or drink — will want this brewing guide to the elusive world of fire-tainted ales and lagers. The authors, experts in the little understood smoked beer styles and profiles, reveal the sensory beauty of flavours transported from such woods as smoking alder, applewood, or cherry
Paperback, 200 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Principles of Brewing Science by George J. Fix
The science and mystique of what makes truly great beer is explored with logic and order. The long-awaited second edition of the George Fix classic looks at ways in which fundamental science impacts brewing. This comprehensive and highly technical study bridges the gap between professional brewing texts and standard texts on chemistry, biochemistry and thermodynamics. Recent major developments in brewing science have been significant, especially in the most crucial determinants of beer flavour quality — fermentation and oxidation. Dr Fix pays special attention to basic chemical pathways used by bacteria and wild yeast, chemical changes that occur during malting, and the application of gas laws to carbonation and dispensation. This is a boo
Paperback, 189 pp, $41.95. Buy
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Home Brewed Beers and Stouts by C.J.J. Berry
This was one of the first modern books on home brewing and was an instant success when it was first published in 1963. This second edition contains information on how to brew fine beers and stouts of authentic flavour and strength.
Paperback, 192 pp, $14.99. Buy
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Dictionary of Beer and Brewing by Dan Rabin and Carl Forget
This completely revised and expanded edition of Brewers Publications’ best-selling The Dictionary of Beer and Brewing presents 2,500 technical, historical, and cultural beer-related terms and definitions gathered from around the world. Each term and definition is concise, clear, up to date, and accompanied by pronunciation guides. They have all been checked for technical accuracy by historians and professionals in the brewing industry. Handy conversion tables are an added bonus
, 306 pp, $22.95. Buy
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The Homebrewer’s Garden by Joe Fisher
Offers advice on growing the ingredients for making beer, describes the most popular varieties of hops, and offers advice on soil preparation, insect pests, and harvesting.
Paperback, 187 pp, $20.95. Buy
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Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels
Formulas, ingredients, historical and modern day brewing practices, are all covered in this book. It provides a wealth of data on the current and historical brewing techniques and ingredients for 14 popular ale and lager styles and includes brewing calculations for planning and adjusting brews
Paperback, 390 pp, $52.95. Buy
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Stout by Michael J. Lewis
In Stout, Michael Lewis traces the changing view of this popular beer style from a medicinal tonic to its glorified position in today’s beer world. Lewis covers the style completely from history and commercial examples to recipes for home and professional brewing
Paperback, 171 pp, $16.95. Buy
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