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[mclane2003]

Hey,

So I have now brewed 5 different extract kits with some success. I want to move more towards creating my own recipes. I have been playing around with Beer Calculus but I feel like I don't know the tastes the different grains give. I have read Chuck P. but he only talks about the taste of a few different specialty grains. Any recommendations on a reference that could help with flavor descriptions so I hopefully will not create a wretched brew?

Thanks

 

[david_42]

You could start with the wiki page: Steeping grains

Palmer's "How to Brew" is also good.

 

[malkore]

www.howtobrew.com for the 'condensed version', but the whole book is worth having in your library.

 

[HomerJR]

I haven't read it (keep meaning to pick it up) but Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels is supposed to be good.