Homebrewing - Volume I

This book teaches the reader how to brew beer at home, assuming no prior knowledge of brewing. It goes on to teach more advanced techniques, troubleshoot problems, answer frequently asked questions and includes a chapter on formulating original recipes for a multitude of styles. Appendices provide information on every modern beer style, hundreds of yeast strains and how to select between them, and detailed information on over 100 hop varieties. * The most detailed homebrewing book ever written * 547 pages covering everything from your very first batch to recipe formulation * 34 original recipes * 57 pages on troubleshooting * 37 pages answering frequently asked questions * Fully referenced * Individual chapters describing each ingredient * Tables for imitating famous water sources, calculating bitterness, dissolved oxygen, priming rates, and more * Information gathered from dozens of professional texts and brewing research papers * Appendices describing: 99 beer styles, 119 hop varieties (aroma, flavor, substitutions), 245 dry and liquid yeasts (attenuation, flocculation, preferred temperature, aroma, flavor, and more) * Award-winning recipe formulation techniques * Teaches beer tasting and palate training