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I'm interested in making my own recipes..are their any books/websites/vids that can help me with that. I'm not just looking for recipes from others. Not sure where to start.

Designing Great Beers by Daniels is great.

I think you should just look at a lot of beers you enjoy and find a clone recipe. You might think one RIS is too roasty, for instance, and find the clone recipes and how much roasted barley it has.

Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels is the Talmud of beer recipes.

Edit: Argh! Too slow.

I'll have to check it out. I've only done two extracts but my overall goal is designing my own beer.

IanPC said:

I'll have to check it out. I've only done two extracts but my overall goal is designing my own beer.

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That was mine as well. I started with one extract kit, thin moved to All grain Brew in a bag for 3 and now I use a cooler MLT for the last 4. Look at established recipe and start with them as a base and experiment with them. EdWorts house Pale Ale is a great foundation for the style. That was my first all grain, and from there I have done a few changing out hops and malts based on that. I have done one SMaSH, and should really do more to learn the flavor profiles of different ingredients.

How to Brew by John Palmer (see also howtobrew.com)
3rd for Designing Great Beers
Brew Like A Monk by Stan Hieronymous (sp?)
Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher

Once you get established:
Brewing Better Beers by Gordon Strong
Yeasts by Jamil Zainasheff and Chris White
Wild Brews by Jeff Sparrow
Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher
Cellarmanship by Patrick O'Neil

And not sure if I'm supposed to be sharing this, but below is the recommended reading list from the UK's Brewlab's Brewing Diploma Course:

Brewing theory texts
Brewing, M.J. Lewis and T.W. Young, 2003, Chapman and Hall. ISBN 0 412 26420X.
Brewing, I. S. Hornsey, Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1999. ISBN.0-85404-568-6
Brewing Microbiology, 2nd Edition. Ed. F.G. Priest and I. Campbell, Chapman
and Hall, 1996. ISBN 0 412 59150 2
Principles of Brewing Science, G. Fix,1999, Brewers Publications. ISBN0-937581-74-8.
The Microbrewers Handbook, Ted Brunning. Navigator guides. ISBN 978-1-903872-22-2.
The Practical Brewer, H.M. Broderick, (ed) Master Brewers of the Americas, 1977
Cellarmanship, Ivor Clissold, Campaign for Real Ale, 1996. ISBN 1 85249-063-2.
Brewing : Science and practice. D.E. Briggs. 2004. ISBN 1 85573 4907

The brewing industry, beer styles and brewery history texts
Classic Beer Style Series, Brewers Publications, Boulder, U.S.A.
Designing Great Beers, R. Daniels, Brewers' Publications, 1996. ISBN. 0-937381-50-0
The British Brewing Industry 1830 – 1980, T.R. Gourvish and R.G. Wilson, Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN 0521 452325.
Country House Brewing in England 1500-1900, Pamela Sambrook,1996, Hambledon Press, London.
ISBN 1-85285-127-9
A History of Beer & Brewing 2003. ISBN 0-8504-630-5

Web support
www.mbaa.com (Master Brewers Association of the Americas)
www.brewingtechniques.com
www.igb.org (Institute & Guild of Brewers)
www.asbcnet.org (American Society of brewing Chemists)

Pre-course and background literature
Microbiology, L.M. Prescott, J.P. Hartley & D.A. Klein, 1996, Wm C. Brown Publishers.
ISBN. 0-697-29390-4.
Principles of Microbiology, R. M. Atlas, 2nd Ed. 1997, Wm C. Brown Publishers.
ISBN. 08151-0889-3

Journals
The following journals are relevant to brewing studies:
The Brewer
Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists
Technical Quarterly of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas
Journal of the Institute of Brewing
Brewers' Guardian
Zymurgy

Archive copies of journals including the Journal of the Institute of Brewing
from 1895 and a range of unique historical books are also available in the Brewlab archives.

Email: [email protected]

How to brew by palmer was good. It's the only one I have right now.