Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles Summary and Reviews

Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles
by Ray Daniels

Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles
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Author: Ray Daniels
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-01-25
ISBN: 0937381500
Number of pages: 404
Publisher: Brewers Publications
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Book Review: THE reference work for brewing from scratch.
Summary: 5 Stars

Some people are content to brew with other people's recipes. For those that are not, this book represents a breakthrough, not only in brewing how-to manuals, but in the whole spectrum of manuals on creating things to ingest. This is not a beer cookbook, id est: pick one of these that looks good, buy these ingredients, mix like so, cook like so... This book takes the process one step farther: what do you want to brew? this is typically how that style is brewed. this is what is typically in that style of beer....and the general instructions necessary to create the recipe for the beer you want, with all sorts of reference information to help the brewer achieve that goal... A reasonable understanding of brewing is a pre-requisite. This book is for creating beers with particular characteristics with regard to the brewer's particular process. If there are any shortcomings, it would be that certain common styles, such as German Dark Lagers, Belgian Trappist Ales, are not addressed. But the design process laid out allows a brewer, even without the benefit of anything more that basic parameters, to make a beer that will approach those parameters. I own or have read several texts on homebrewing, this is the only book to which I refer when I set out to brew a batch of beer.

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