Dave Miller's Homebrewing Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great-Tasting Beer

by Dave Miller

Overview

In this comprehensive guide to homebrewing, Dave Miller offers expert advice on the entire brewing process. With up-to-date techniques, simple definitions for unfamiliar terminology, and helpful diagrams demonstrating proper equipment layouts and methods, Miller includes everything you need to know to brew great-tasting beer at home. Clear enough for the novice, yet thorough enough to earn a home in the libraries of accomplished brewmasters, Dave Miller’s Homebrewing Guide is packed with useful information that will inspire you to take your beer to the next level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882669052
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	01/10/1995
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dave Miller is the author of Brew Like a Pro and Dave Miller’s Homebrewing Guide, published by Storey in 1995. He was a brewer at Blackstone in Nashville from 1994 to 2008. During his tenure there, Blackstone’s beer won 14 Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup medals. In his retirement, he has returned to the world of homebrewing. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Homebrewers Association.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 How Beer Is Made

3 Getting Started in Homebrewing

4 Malts, Adjuncts, and Sugars

5 Water and Water Treatment

6 Mash Methods - An Overview

7 Equipment for Wort Production

8 What Happens in the Mash Tun?

9 Mashing and Lautering

10 Hops

11 Kettles, Wort Coolers, and Other Equipment

12 What Happens in the Kettle and Wort Cooler?

13 Boiling, Trub Separation, and Cooling

14 Yeast

15 Yeast Propagation and Maintenance

16 Fermentation Methods

17 Fermentation and Lagering Equipment

18 What Happens during Fermentation?

19 Wort Aeration and Pitching

20 Running the Fermentation

21 Maturation and Lagering

22 Beer Clarification

23 Clarifiers, Filters, and Filtration Equipment

24 Clarification and Filtration Techniques

25 Carbonation

26 Beer Carbonation Methods

27 Bottle- and Cask-Conditioned Beers

28 Draft Beer Equipment

29 Draft System Design and Operation

30 Bottled Beer and Bottling

31 Cleaning and Sanitation

32 Cleaners, Sanitizers, and Cleaning Equipment

33 Cleaning and Sanitizing Procedures

34 Beer Evaluation

35 Troubleshooting

36 Beer Styles

37 Recipe Formulation

38 Recipes

Metric Conversions

Sources

Glossary

Annotated Bibliography

Index