Methods of Modern Homebrewing: The Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Craft Beer Brewing

by Chris Colby

Overview

Hey homebrewers—make better beer! Returning for his second book, Chris Colby highlights the modern brewing methods homebrewers use to make beer. From the basic procedures for making beer from malt extract to advanced all-grain techniques and tests for quality . . . This book is a beer geek’s dream!

There is no book like this on the market and a brewer would have to pore through numerous brewing texts, magazine articles and website posts to find all this information. Methods of Modern Homebrewing gives step-by-step instructions, with helpful photos, for very major homebrewing method. The book also features useful charts for brewers to get information at a glance. Appropriate example recipes are given for most of the techniques. Learn to brew with malt extract, by partial mashing or go all-grain. Then move on to master decoction mashing, kräusening, high gravity brewing and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781624144615
Publisher:	Page Street Publishing
Publication date:	12/12/2017
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.03(w) x 8.87(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Chris Colby is the editor of Beer & Wine Journal. He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in biology and chemistry, and a PhD in biology. He previously served as editor for Holt, Rinehart and Winston and as editor of Brew Your Own and WineMaker magazines. He lives in Bastrop, Texas.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Overview of Brewing 6

Getting the Most from the Recipes 12

What's Important? 13

Section 1 Brewing With Malt Extract 15

The Modern Extract With Grains Method 16

American Extra Pale Ale 23

British Golden Ale 24

Winter Warmer 25

American Amber Ale 26

British Brown Ale 28

Best Bitter 29

Kola and Nutmeg Porter 31

Small Partial Mash Method 32

Vienna Lager 35

Sticke Altbier 36

Large Partial Mash Method 38

Smoked Wee Heavy 41

Saison 43

Texas Two-Step Method 44

American IPA 46

No Boil Method 48

Brown Ale 49

Section 2 All-Grain Brewing: Mashing 51

Crushing the Grains 52

Mashing in 55

Single Infusion Mash Method 57

U.S. WWI-era Pilsner 61

American Pale Ale 63

British IPA 64

Irish Extra Stout 67

Step Mash Method 68

Rye Pale Ale 73

Dry Vienna Lager 74

Decoction Mash Method 75

Bohemian Pilsner (Czech Pilsner) 77

Doppelbock 79

Cereal Mash Method 80

Cream Ale 83

Rice Lager 84

Mashing Out 85

Recirculation 86

Reiterated Mashing Method 87

High-Gravity Specialty Ale 89

Section 3 All-Grain Brewing: Lautering 91

Continuous Sparging 92

Copper Ale 99

American Porter 100

Batch Sparging 102

American Amber Ale 103

American Strong Ale 104

No-Sparge Wort Collection 107

Dark Mild Ale 109

Ordinary Bitter 111

Parti-Gyle and Similar Methods 112

Strong Bitter and Best Bitter 115

Old Ate and Dry Stout 117

Brew in a Bag (Biab) Method 120

100% Rye/Wheat Pale Ale 121

Section 4 Wort Boiling 123

First Wort Hopping 124

Wort Boiling 124

Black IPA 131

Kölsch-Style Ale 132

American IPA 133

Heather Ale 134

Session IPA 135

Whirlpool Hopping 136

Section 5 Wort Chilling 139

Sink (Or Bathtub) Chilling 140

Immersion Chilling 140

Counterflow Chilling 142

Section 6 Fermentation 145

Yeast Starters 146

Basic Yeast Starter 151

Rehydrating Dried Yeast 152

Repitching Yeast 153

Aeration 154

Ordinary Ale Fermentation 156

Ordinary Lager Fermentation 160

Octoberfest (Festbier) 163

High-Gravity Fermentations 164

Imperial Stout 167

Specialty Yeast Fermentations 168

Hefeweizen 171

Brettanomyces Saison 172

Witbier 174

Kräusening 175

Dry Hopping 176

Forced Fermentation Test 177

Wort Stability Test 178

Fining For Clarity 179

Section 7 Sour Beer Production 181

Sour Mashing 182

American Sour Ale 184

Sour Fruit Ale 185

Kettle Souring 186

American Sour Ale 189

Traditional Sour Beer Production Method 190

Berliner Weisse 195

Kriek (Cherry Lambic) 196

Flanders Red Ale 197

Section 8 Water Treatment 199

Removing Chlorine Compounds 200

Calcium Content 201

Reducing Alkalinity 201

Matching Mineral Content to Beer Color 203

Section 9 Packaging 207

Bottle Conditioning 208

Kegging 210

Cask Conditioning 213

High-Gravity Brewing 214

International Pale Lager 217

Beer Stability Test 218

Acknowledgments 219

About the Author 219

Index 220