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Stephen Snyder The Brewmaster's Bible: The Gold Standard for Home Brewers
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Product Information
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$11.95 |
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$15.48 |
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Stephen Snyder |
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The Beer Renaissance is in full swing, and home brewing has never been more popular. According to the American Homebrewers Association, there are currently 1.2 million home brewers in the country, and their numbers keep rising. Tired of the stale ale, bland beer and lackadaisical lagers mass-produced by the commercial labels, Americans are discovering the many advantages of brewing their own batch of that beloved beverage: superior aroma, color, body and flavor.
For both amateur alchemists eager to tap into this burgeoning field and seasoned zymurgists looking to improve their brews, The Brewmaster's Bible is the ultimate resource. Its features include: Updated data on liquid yeasts, which have become a hot topic for brewers; 30 recipes in each of the classic beer styles of Germany, Belgium, Britain and the U.S.; extensive profiles of grains, malts, adjuncts, additives and sanitizers; recipe formulation charts in an easy-to-read spreadsheet format; detailed water analyses for more than 25 cities and 6 bottled waters; directories to hundreds of shops; and much more.
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Xaphoeous's Reviews
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Price: $19.00
Pros: Good descriptions of the basics of brewing. Good explanations of procedures. Good reference tables. Tons of recipes!
Cons: Have to read it, info isn't automatically downloaded to my brain a la The Matrix.
Recommended? Yes
Comments: The book starts out basic and gets more detailed. I like that a total noob can pick it up, start reading, and get excited to start brewing. The back has tons of recipes that i can't wait to try.
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Donthoseme's Reviews
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03-11-2009, 12:59 PM |
Stephen Snyder The Brewmaster's Bible: The Gold Standard for Home Brewers
Price: $11.95
Pros: Great info on the origin of styles, brew tips, and lots of formulas
Cons: Most of the recipes are extract and some of the all grain recipes are are on the bland side of the style. Not enough character.
Recommended? Yes
Comments: I got this book because i thought it would be higher level recipe formulation and complex all grain techniques. There were some very helpful tips about how to get carmel flavor without adding possible astringency, it had a decent explination of lager brewing, and there were some great basic and more advanced tips. This book however had a much larger section devoted to extract brewing than i thought necesary. Where there will be 5 or 6 extract recipes there is only one or maybe two all grain. Also some of the styles seemed really bland and ordinary. They had a barleywine with all pale and a pound of crystal 60. Nothing else to really make it different. They had an IPA with 2 oz of bittering hops (chiook) and then a 1 oz dry hop. I'm fairly certain that in any IPA flavor hops are in order. I knew i shouldn't have looked at the recipes because i knew what i'd get. But i did and i'm dissapointed. Overall this was probably the best book i have. I guess at this point i am looking for a text book for all grain brewing and not a basic book. A lot of the info can be found in other books. However if i had to suggest just one book purely for beer brewing and recipe formulation this would be the one.
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