Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing, Updated Edition

In this updated, beginner-friendly guide from Brew Your Own, you’ll find the best homebrew techniques, tips, and new recipes.

Contents INTRODUCTION C H A P T E R  HOW TO HOMEBREW HOMEBREWING BASICS Cleaning and Sanitation Equipment Basics BREWING WITH EXTRACT Malt Extract Brew Day ALL-GRAIN BREWING All-Grain Brew Day Mash Methods Brew-in-a-Bag FERMENTATION AND CONDITIONING Pitching Rates Pitching Temperature and Control Stuck Fermentations BOTTLING Racking and Transferring How to Bottle Priming KEGGING How to Keg Balancing Your Draft System MALT The Process of Malting in a Nutshell Base Malts Specialty Malts Selecting Malt: Taste It! Storage and Freshness ADJUNCTS Kettle Adjuncts Mashable Adjuncts HOPS Hop Basics Buying and Storing Hops Hop Varieties HOPPING METHODS First Wort Hopping Hop Stands, Whirlpool Hopping, and Hop Bursting Dry Hopping YEAST Choosing Yeast Strains Yeast Pitching Rates Making a Yeast Starter Reusing Yeast Collecting Yeast from Bottles WATER The Short Course on Water Treatment FRUIT AND SPICE Fruits for Brewing Spices for Brewing WOOD AND SOUR BEER Using Oak Sour Beer RECIPES HOMEBREW RECIPE DESIGN The Two Schools of Beer Recipe Design A Structured Approach to Beer Recipe Design Judging and Improving Your Recipes CLONING RECIPES What You’ll Need Where to Get the Information In the Cloning Lab Assessing the Clone THE CLONE RECIPES Alaskan Brewing Company: Smoked Porter The Alchemist: Heady Topper AleSmith Brewing Company: Old Numbskull Allagash Brewing Company: Allagash White Anchor Brewing Company: Anchor Steam Beer Anderson Valley Brewing Company: Blood Orange Gose Bell’s Brewery: Hopslam Ale Bell’s Brewery: Oberon Bierstadt Lagerhaus: Slow Pour Pils Boulevard Brewing Company: Tank 7 Brasserie d’Orval S.A.: Orval Trappist Ale Brewery Ommegang: Hennepin Farmhouse Saison Brooklyn Brewery: Black Ops Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat: Duvel Deschutes Brewery: Black Butte Porter Devils Backbone Brewing Company: Vienna Lager Devil’s Purse Brewing Company: Handline Kölsch Drekker Brewing Company: Hyper Scream Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Pivo Pils Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Velvet Merlin Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing Company: Funnel Cake Founder’s Brewing Company: Breakfast Stout Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC: Fuller’s ESB Great Divide Brewing Company: Yeti Imperial Stout Great Lakes Brewing Company: Christmas Ale Guinness & Company: Guinness Draught Heretic Brewing Company: Evil Twin Hill Farmstead Brewery: Everett Icarus Brewing Company: Pineapple Hindenburg Jack’s Abby Brewing: Hoponius Union Jackie O’s Brewery: Brick Kiln Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales: La Roja The Kernel Brewery: Export India Porter Knotted Root Brewing Company: Perpetually Unimpressed Launch Pad Brewery: Cape Canaveral Key Lime Saison Lawson’s Finest Liquids: Double Sunshine Left Hand Brewing Company: Oktoberfest The Lost Abbey Brewing Company: Ten Commandments New Belgium Brewing Company: Fat Tire Amber Ale Paulaner Brauerei: Paulaner Hefe-Weizen Pedal Haus Brewery: Bourbon Barrel-Aged Quadrupel Pelican Brewing Company: Kiwanda Cream Ale Plzensky Prazdroj’s: Pilsner Urquell Clone Revolution Brewing: Louie Louie Russian River Brewing Company: Pliny the Elder Sapwood Cellars Brewery: Cheater X Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Celebration Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Pale Ale Southern Tier Brewing Company: Crème Brûlée Surly Brewing Company: Bender Tiny Rebel Brewing Company: Bitter Sweet Symphony Traquair House Brewery: Traquair House Ale Trillium Brewing Company: Fort Point Pale Ale RESOURCES INDEX ACKNOWLEGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR