Book on Brewing Techniques Through History?

[Apoxbrew]

I wasn't sure which forum to post this question in... I hope it's suitable here.

I'm having a hell of a time finding a book that would discuss different brewing techniques through history. There's a number of them out there that appear to discuss beer through history in general and discuss ingredients used such as how yeast were captured and what adjuncts where used and the like.

I'm specifically interested, though, in how the beer was brewed, fermented, conditioned, etc. throughout history. Basically I'm interested in the evolution of the equipment used.

Anyone have any book or article suggestions that might cover this type of information?

Thanks!

 

[GodsStepBrother]

Radical Brewing buddy, very interesting fun read.

Edit: a little confusing sorry, the book is called "Radical Brewing".

 

[Revvy]

Radical Brewing buddy, very interesting fun read.

Edit: a little confusing sorry, the book is called "Radical Brewing".

That doesn't necessarily cover different techniques and how the evolved through history.

Honestly I can't think of any one book that looks at it globally. Or even covers it at all historically. I mean there is a lot of stuff out there on the evolution of techniques in German brewing for example. And the evolution of porters and partigyles in English brewing...but everything is pretty scattered.

Hmm, it's a good idea for one though. Maybe if I ever get around to finishing my book on the Breweries of Michigan's thumb, I can look into doing something like that.

Here's some of my beer history links if you're interested;

Kai Troester's site on German Brewing Techniques.

http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8633

http://www.beerhistory.com/library/

http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/interest.htm

http://www.falstaffbrewing.com/ballantine_ale.htm

"American Beer - 1908, A series of "Letters to the Editor" sent to the New York Sun newspaper." All about beer and the brewing industry in NY in 1908

http://jesskidden.googlepages.com/19082

Draft Beer in 1903
http://jesskidden.googlepages.com/draftbeerin1903

The Brunswick Pilsners (Pre-prohibition) with recipes
http://brewingtechniques.com/library/backissues/issue2.1/jankowski.html

Here's some good info on porters and the development of that style.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/historical-porter-some-recipes-199576/

This is a great site on English Brewing styles.

http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/search/label/Let's Brew

Here is some of my ancient brewing info..

You might find this interesting.

The Yeast of the Ancients
(It's kinda new agey, but has some interesting info that could provide hours of interesting googling.)

Why brewing ancient Egyptian-style beer is so popular & how to make it


The maltose falcons had a great article on brewing with Bappir, but it looks like they're redoing their site and the old links don't work.

Found it http://archive.maltosefalcons.com/recipes/20051002.php

Some of my stuff is on that is here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/brewing-bread-209505/#post2459997


Here's a bit on Partigyling for instance. http://www.byo.com/component/resource/article/2021-parti-gyle-brewing-techniques

"The Good, The Bad, and the Belly: The Facts About Ancient Beer."


The Hymn to Ninkasi outlines the oldest brewing technique recorded. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/ne...er-saved-world-221520/index2.html#post2599137

Bronze age Irish Brewing info

Hope these help...I've got more. I started an beer history sites thread years ago, I may need to update it with this stuff I've scattered all over the forums.

(Sorry it's out of historical order, but I'm just grabbing links from posts from memory....)

 

[Chad]

American Handy Book of the Brewing, Malting & Auxiliary Trades, Wahl & Henius, 1902.

Origin and History of Beer and Brewing, John P. Arnold, 1911 (reprint 2005)

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened, Kenelm Digby (take at look at the HTML version, it has illustrations)

Also search BeerBooks.com. They have a lot of rare & historical brewing books.

 

[Revvy]

The work of Patrick McGovern is fascinating as well. He's the one who advises Sam Caligione on his historical beer recreations.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...irst-for-beer-spark-civilization-1869187.html

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267985

Looks like he has a blog http://www.penn.museum/sites/biomoleculararchaeology/?page_id=69

 

[Revvy]

Here's some more stuff on the King Midas and Bappir bread brewing

Here is a downloadable MS Word article and recipe for another version of it http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...sg=AFQjCNGHRX-RzNMG7wHQCMH1hbf16sm8PQ&cad=rja

Theres also the Beer from King Mida's Tomb, that Dogfish Head Replicated, "Mida's Touch" you're interested in the history, here's some articles on the original discovery and the deconstructing of the ingredients and reproducing the funeral feast.

http://www.penn.museum/sites/Midas/intro.shtml

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3469/is_45_53/ai_94673455

Here's some stuff on historical brewing in North America

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/historic-brewing-bethlehem-pa-126996/#post1434880

Here's my walk through of the original Labatt Pioneer Brewery in London Ontario.

Here's some brewing instructions for the UK in 1861 http://brewery.org/brewery/library/Per1861UK.html

This is an archive of historical brewing technique articles as well. Interesting one on Brunswick pilsners which I never heard of and were hoppier than the BMC of today. http://brewingtechniques.com/library/history.html

This is a really cool archive of brewing techniques magazines, which actually does cover historical technigues. CLick on each issue, and there's a few articles in each archived online. I just read a good one in issue 3 or 4 on porters through time. http://brewingtechniques.com/library/backissues.html