The Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing: All-Grain and Extract Brewing * Kegging * 50+ Craft Beer Recipes * Tips and Tricks from the Pros

by Brew Your Own

Overview

The official homebrewing guide from top magazine and website Brew Your Own is packed with recipes, expert advice, step-by-step process photos, ingredient information, and more—it's an all-in-one stop for anyone who's into homebrew.

Homebrewers around the world have turned to the experts at Brew Your Own magazine for more than two decades. Now, the editors known for publishing the best information on making incredible beer at home have released the new brewing bible. It's no secret that from well-tested recipes to expert troubleshooting, Brew Your Own sets the standard for quality. That means in this book you'll find the best of the best when it comes to homebrew guides, recipes, tips, and more!

The Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing is the ultimate brew-day companion. It's a first-time homebrewer's best friend, explaining the entire brewing process from start to finish with step-by-step photography. Yet it has plenty to offer more experienced brewers as well. Inside these pages you'll find:

• Fully-illustrated guides for making the jump to all-grain brewing and for setting up your first kegging system
• More than 50 sought-after clone recipes for your favorite breweries' beers
• A deep dive on brewing ingredients
• The most useful troubleshooting features and tips ever published in the magazine

Whether you're looking to get into brewing,up your game, or find inspiration for your next brew day, this book has everything you need except the beer itself!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760350461
Publisher:	Harvard Common Press, The
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Brew Your Own, launched in 1995, is the largest circulation magazine for people interested in making their own great beer at home. Every issue includes recipes, how-to projects, and expert advice to help you brew world-class beer. Regular columns include troubleshooting common problems with Mr. Wizard, brewing a classic beer style in Style Profile, homebrew recipes for your favorite commercial beers in The Replicator, refining your brewing with Techniques, building brewing gadgets in Projects, and hearing tips, stories, and recipes from fellow homebrewers in Homebrew Nation. Brew Your Own publishes eight issues annually from offices in Manchester Center, VT. The magazine’s online home, byo.com, offers a selection of the magazine’s stories, projects, and recipes, as well as web-only features.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Chapter 1 How to Homebrew 8

Homebrewing Basics 9

Cleaning and Sanitation

Equipment Basics 9

Brewing With Extract 17

Malt Extract Brew Day

All Grain Brewing 26

All Grain Brew-Day

Mash Methods

Brew in a Bag

Fermentation and Conditioning 41

Pitching Rates

Pitching Temperature and Control

Stuck Fementations

Bottling 50

Racking and Trasferring

How to Bottle

Priming

Kegging 56

How to Keg

Balancing Your Draft System

Chapter 2 Brewing Ingredients 64

Malt 65

The Process of Malting in a Nutshell

Base Malts

Specialty Malts

Selecting Malt Taste

Storage and Freshness

Adjuncts 72

Kettle Adjuncts

Mashable Adjuncts

Hops 77

Hop Basics

Buying and Storing Hops

Hop Varieties

Hopping Methods 89

First Wort Hopping

Hop Stands, Whirlpool Hopping and Hop Bursting

Dry Hopping

Yeast 102

Choosing Yeast Strains

Yeast Pitching Rates

Making a Yeast Starte

Reusing Yeast

Collecting Yeast from Bottles

Water 120

The Short Course on Water Treatment

Fruit and Spice 128

Fruits for Brewing

Space for Brewing

Wood and Sour beer 138

Using Oak

Sour Beer

Chapter 3 Recipes 144

Homebrew Recipe Design 145

The Two Schools of Beer Recipe Design

A Structure Approach to Beer Recipe Desiogn

Judging and Improving Your Recipes

Cloning Recipes 150

What You'll Need

Where to Get the Information

In the Cloning Lab

Assessing the Clone

The Clone Recipes 154

21st Amendment Brewery: Back in Black 156

21st Amendment Brewery: Bitter American 158

Alaskan Brewing Company: Smoked Porter 159

The Alchemist: Heady Topper 160

AleSmith: Old Numbskull 162

Allagash Brewing: Allagash Tripel 164

Anchor Brewing Company: Anchor Steam Beer 164

Anchor Brewing Company: Liberty Ale 167

Big Sky Brewing: Moose Drool Brown Ale 168

Brasserie à Vapeur: Saison de Pipaix 168

Brasserie d'Orval S.A.: Orval Trappist Ale 169

Brewery Ommegang: Hennepin Farmhouse Saison 170

Brooklyn Brewery: Local 2 172

Brooklyn Brewery: Brooklyn Lager 174

Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat: Duvel 175

Deschutes Brewery: Black Butte Porter 177

Deschutes Brewery: Hop Trip (Fresh Hop Beer) 178

Dogfish Head Brewery: Midas Touch 179

Elysian Brewing Company: Dark o' the Moon 181

Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Pivo Hoppy Pils 182

Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Velvet Merlin 184

Founder's Brewing Company: Breakfast Stout 185

Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC: Fuller's ESB 186

Funkwerks: Raspberry Provincial 188

Great Divide Brewing Company: Yeti Imperial Stout 189

Heretic Brewing Company: Evil Twin 191

Hill Farmstead Brewery: Abner 193

Hill Farmstead Brewery: Everett 194

Jack's Abby Brewing: Hoponius Union 196

Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales: La Roja 198

Lawson's Finest Liquids: Double Sunshine 198

Lawson's Finest Liquids: Super Session IPA 200

New Belgium Brewing Company: Fat Tire Amber Ale 201

New Belgium Brewing Company: La Folie 203

Odell Brewing Company: Isolation Ale 205

Oskar Blues Brewery: Old Chub Scottish-Style Ale 206

Oskar Blues Brewery: Ten FIDY 208

Paulaner Brauerei: Paulaner Hefe-Weizen 209

Perennial Artisan Ales: Devil's Heart of Gold 210

Rogue Ales: Dead Guy Ale 211

Russian River Brewing Company: Temptation 213

Russian River Brewing Company: Pliny the Elder 215

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Pale Ale 217

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Celebration 218

The Spencer Brewery: Spencer Trappist Ale 219

Spiringfield Brewing Company: Aviator Doppelbock 221

Stone Brewing: Imperial Russian Stout 222

Surly Brewing Company: Bender 224

Surly Brewing Company: Bitter Brewer 226

Switchback Brewing Company: Switchback Ale 227

Traquair House Brewery: Traquair House Ale 228

Wicked Weed Brewing Company: Reticent Saison 229

Wolaver's: Alta Gracia Coffee Porter 231

Resources 232

Index 235

Acknowledgements 240

About the Author 240