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

This updated edition of 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.

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 updated their brewing bible. With all-new information on creating mouthwatering hazy IPAs, pastry stouts, and kettle sours, there’s even more to learn. And with 25 new recipes from popular craft brewers, there’s also more to brew!

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—making it 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 this updated edition you’ll find:

• All new recipes for must-brew beers, including popular national favorites and clones for hard-to-find regional cult beers too
• An expanded section on hops and hopping, including all the most popular hops commercial brewers are using today and new techniques for mastering aggressively hopped styles like hazy IPAs
• Tips for brewing clean, great-tasting hard seltzer
• And of course, the book still includes editors’ (and commercial brewer) tips throughout, making sure your next brewday goes as planned

Whether you’re looking to get into brewing, up your game, or find inspiration for your next beer, you’ll find it in the big book!

• ISBN13: 9780760374337
• Publish Date: 10 May 2022
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Harvard Common Press,U.S.
• Edition: New Edition
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 240
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing is a re-formatted and updated 2nd edition of the classic homebrew encyclopedia (with recipes) from the editors of Brew Your Own magazine. Originally published in 2017, this edition was released 10th May 2022 by Quarto on their Harvard Common Press imprint. It's 240 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats.

This is a very good, comprehensive, accessible, plainly written guide with recipes for the homebrewer. It covers everything from beginning information through equipment gathering. Using only this guide, a beginning brewer could successfully gather the necessary tools, equipment, and ingredients to make a safe, drinkable, and potable beer. The introductory sections contain a thorough overview on the process including a necessary emphasis on cleaning and sanitation. The authors do a good job of explaining safety procedures, ingredients, and the basic general procedure. Tutorial photos are abundant, in color, and clear, without hands or tools blocking the action.

The second section contains a good cross section of recipes and clones (some very famous brews to copy here) as well as enough information and instruction that adventurous readers will be encouraged to spread their wings and develop their own brews. Recipes include an introduction, ingredients in bullet lists with measurements in both imperial (American) and metric measurements, and step-by-step instructions. The book also includes a resource/links list and abbreviate bibliography for further reading.

This is a very good basic guide which has enough scope and information to satisfy both beginners and advanced zymurgists, and which will become a staple reference in the homebrewer's library. Highly recommended to hobby brewers, smallholders, general DIYers, and beer lovers. Note that this is a *beer* brewing book and does a good job of different profile beers, but doesn't include hard ciders, meads, metheglins, or anything but beer. The clone recipes include lots of ales, porters, pilsners, a few stouts, IPA, red-ales, and more or less all the beer types I could imagine. There are craft beer recipes here to keep even the most dedicated hobbyist going for a long while.

Five stars. I didn't have the first edition for comparison, but this is a comprehensive guide.