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Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer
I really like this book, It does not replace Palmer's or Papazian's classics books for info on how to brew but what it does do is give you info on styles, choosing ingredients & extract brewing. It also touches on AG and kegging.
Its strong point is that it has over 20 categories of beers with several subcategories in each. Jamil tells you what a good example of each beer should taste like, provies keys to brewing that particular beer and provides a recent (last 3 years) award winning recipes in both extract and all grain versions.
Palmer also had Appendixs on Pitching rates and starters, steeping specialty grains, stovetop partial mashing and priming rates and co2 volumes.
I find myself going to this book constantly to decide what to brew next and then again when I am ready to create the recipe.
I really like this book, It does not replace Palmer's or Papazian's classics books for info on how to brew but what it does do is give you info on styles, choosing ingredients & extract brewing. It also touches on AG and kegging.
Its strong point is that it has over 20 categories of beers with several subcategories in each. Jamil tells you what a good example of each beer should taste like, provies keys to brewing that particular beer and provides a recent (last 3 years) award winning recipes in both extract and all grain versions.
Palmer also had Appendixs on Pitching rates and starters, steeping specialty grains, stovetop partial mashing and priming rates and co2 volumes.
I find myself going to this book constantly to decide what to brew next and then again when I am ready to create the recipe.