The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition
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The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition (Harperresource Book)
By Charles Papazian
Publisher: Collins
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0060531053
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780060531058
Binding: Paperback
Charlie Papazian, master brewer and founder and president of the American Homebrewer’s Association and Association of Brewers, presents a fully revised edition of his essential guide to homebrewing. This third edition of the best-selling and most trusted homebrewing guide includes a complete update of all instructions, recipes, charts, and guidelines. Everything you need to get started is here, including classic and new recipes for brewing stouts, ales, lagers, pilseners, porters, specialty beers, and honey meads.
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing, third edition, includes:
Getting your home brewery together: the basics — malt, hops, yeast, and water
Ten easy lessons for making your first batch of beer
Creating world-class styles of beer (IPA, Belgian wheat, German Kölsch and Bock, barley wine, American lagers, to name a few)
Using fruit, honey, and herbs for a spicier, more festive brew
Brewing with malt extracts for an unlimited range of strengths and flavors
Advanced brewing techniques using specialty hops or the all-grain method or mash extracts
A complete homebrewer’s glossary, troubleshooting tips, and an up-to-date resource section
And much, much more
Be sure to check out Charlie’s The Homebrewer’s Companion for over 60 additional recipes and more detailed charts and tables, techniques, and equipment information for the advanced brewer.
Summary: Excellent beginers guide
Rating: 5
If you’ve ever even THOUGHT about brewing your own ales, lagers, stouts or porters, this is the book for you. Papazian is extremely knowledgable and has a writing style that makes the process fun and easy to follow. It is essentially the “bible” for home brewers.
My 3 cents (wasn’t it worth more then 2?)
Summary: A Joy
Rating: 5
I got this book on recommendation from my friend Aaron when we were brewing at his house this weekend. We brewed a variation of the “Goat Scrotum Porter” on page 200.
The book is however much more than a recipe book for beer. It is divided into three major sections:
Pgs 1-39 give a basic outline of brewing history and the knowledge you need to brew a beer from a basic kit.
Pgs 40-240 are the meat of the book. This intermediate brewing section goes over every aspect of brewing from yeasts to sanitizing your equipment. It also includes many recipes for ales and lagers as well as ideas on how you might adapt any recipe for your own tastes.
Pgs 241-388 really get into the science and math behind brewing. I have only skimmed this section, but it seems to be a fantastic reference guide for the advanced brewer.
What sets this book apart is the well written and funny style that Papazian brings to everything from water mineral content to the human migrations that transport Viennese lagers to Mexico. Most appreciated is his constant reminder that if you are feeling stressed about the minutia of brewing “Relax, Don’t Worry, Have a Homebrew.” This seems to be both his philosophy and the first step of all of his recipes.
Summary: Good book to get you going
Rating: 5
I like this book and it is a good guide to know what to purchase and how to brew. I’d recommend it to any beginner. The book also seems advanced enough for the experienced brewer. It contains many recipes and advanced techniques such as lagering and double brewing. I think this is a great book and acts as a handbook in almost any brewing situation.
Summary: For the Nervous Novice
Rating: 5
There are probably three books that are genuinely helpful for the beginning homebrewer. Which one is right for you depends on how you approach techniques of dealing with things in the physical world.
If the idea of doing anything physical scares the bejabbers out of you, you have to begin withThe Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition (Harperresource Book).
This is a very simple, slow and reassuring book. The author sounds like the friendliest, least intimidating guy in the world. The style is very chummy in a post-frathouse kind of way that some people find very difficult to read and that others find relaxing. In this book you may see the ancestor of the Complete Dummies series. I believe that Papazian, who has made a carreer of coaching homebrewers, has been published on the topic for thirty years or so.
If you’re the sort of person who likes the idea of baking his own bread or wiring her own lamp, then probably The Complete Handbook of Home Brewing is right for you. The information is straightforward and well-organized and he allows for the fact that sometimes you want to make it fast and simple and other times you may want to linger over the details. There’s a separate book of recipes ordered by beer style and also by degree of difficulty.
If you love worrying, then How to Brew: Everything You Need To Know To Brew Beer Right The First Time is the book for you. There are dozens of complications lurking in Palmer’s world of brewing and a host of precautions and gadgets gadgets for avoiding them. Palmer is also the book for those who are curious about fundamentals: the hard science of brewing is to be found here.
–Lynn Hoffman, author of The New Short Course in Wine and bang BANG
Summary: Don’t overlook it
Rating: 4
I first thumbed through The Complete Joy of Homebrewing while standing in the bookstore and passed it off as too much of a beginner’s book. I later borrowed my friend’s copy and now have to say this is where I should’ve started to begin with. It is likely the best beginner’s homebrewing book available (which is why you’ll see it bundled with beginner’s kits in homebrew supply stores) but also really good for intermediate homebrewers like myself. Papazian does a great job of keeping things simple and relaxed, but also packs in the info. I’ve learned a lot from this title that I should have a long time ago.
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