Title: Homebrewing For Dummies Author(s): Marty Nachel Pages: 1 Publisher: Publication date: Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 0470230622 ISBN-13: Description: Product Description:
The latest on gluten-free, organic, and green brewing
Make your own delicious lagers and ales
Want to become your own brewmeister? This must-have guide gives you easy-to-follow instructions in everything from brewing and bottling tostoring, pouring, and kegging your own beer. You get the latest on required equipment and new brewing methods, as well as over 100 tried-and-true recipes. Plus, you'll see how to take part in homebrew competitions!
Discover how to:
Set up your home brewery
Select ingredients and flavorings
Brew basic beers, specialty beers, even cider and mead
Evaluate your beer and troubleshoot problems
Become an eco-friendly brewer
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Marty Nachel immediately dispels two long-held myths in Homebrewing for Dummies: brewing your own beer isn't all that difficult, and despite all that you may have heard or assumed, facial hair is not a prerequisite to being a good homebrewer.
Like all other books in the popular Dummies series, Homebrewing for Dummies is a clear, concise, how-to guide for the do-it-yourselfer. As it turns out, making beer isn't hard to do if you have a stove, some basic equipment, and a little time on your hands. Here's your chance to make your own Hefeweizen or India Pale Ale and avoid another trip to the local microbrewery; Nachel provides the recipes and solid step-by-step instructions. And if making beer isn't enough, the chapter on evaluation will teach even the most pedestrian beer drinker to critically analyze homebrews like a pro.
Nachel is well qualified. The former welder is an award-winning brewer and one of the top beer writers in the country. Homebrewing for Dummies covers the gamut--from simple lagers to Belgian Dubbels--and Nachel shows that you don't need a team of Clydesdales or a Colorado mountain spring to make great beer at home.
Summary: Takes the Frustration Out of the Brewing Process
Rating: 5
If you're a budding homebrewer or an experienced home brewer who could use a few tips and troubleshooting techniques, then Homebrewing for Dummies is a book worth buying. This book is a complete guide to homebrewing at different levels and it serves as a highly useful reference for those who wish to brew their own beer for the first time or who would like to find some ways to make their homebrew easier to make, better tasting, or more eco- friendly. This book covers everything that is important to the homebrewer, from purchasing equipment to buying the ingredients to bottling and evaluating the finished product.
Brewing beer isn't easy and many homebrewing hobbies have been ended prematurely due to a recipe turned bad or by general frustration with getting everything right. This is where Homebrewing for Dummies can help. This book was written to assist homebrewers at all levels in the fine art of making beer. It steps the homebrewer through all of the important steps, starting with the equipment inventory and ending with the bottling process. Along the way, the book shares some secrets for homebrewing success, pointing out the importance of cleaning and sanitizing, temperature control, and other factors that directly influence the final product.
What I like best about Homebrewing for Dummies is its penchant for thoroughness. Many other books exist on this subject, but few cover so many different aspects of brewing as Homebrewing for Dummies. Those who are unfamiliar with homebrewing will probably be shocked to learn that this book is more than 400 pages in length. Many people mistakenly believe that making beer is a simple process than can quickly be described in one- hundred or fewer pages and many authors have, indeed, attempted to compose quick guides to homebrewing that are a fraction of the length of this guide. But to cover every aspect of homebrewing, a much longer guide is needed. Homebrewing for Dummies wants to make sure that you, the homebrewing enthusiast, have all the necessary facts and information at your fingertips to make sure your homebrewing batch turns out just right and once you get involved in a hobby like homebrewing and realize what it entails, you will agree that a much longer book is necessary to do the justice to the craft.
Since this book is part of the For Dummies line of books, it is written in a format similar to the others in this popular series. Thus, it includes bulleted text, unique icons to indicate special points, highlights, boldface headings, etc. This type of format makes the book more readable and better organized. It is also humorous at times. The author wants the homebrewer to take his/her hobby seriously, but he also wants to make sure the brewer enjoys himself/herself in the process. So, he includes touches of humor from time to time throughout the book. The humor isn't excessive by any means. It is just right and is well timed, offering a nice change of pace as you read, helping to lighten up the mood as you learn more and more about the world's greatest beverage.
Overall, Homebrewing for Dummies is an excellent book about brewing beer. It covers the subject of homebrewing thoroughly and effectively, is flawlessly written, and is entertaining to read. It's an outstanding resource for the homebrewing hobbyist and a book I recommend to anyone with an interest in this subject.
Summary: I am pleasantly supprised... and a bit tipsy
Rating: 4
I read this book cover to cover (took me about a week) before I started brewing. I bought the right equipment, and followed the instructions in the book. Now, three weeks after brewing and four weeks after purchasing the book, I have some pretty good homemade bottled beer!
Brewing is not for the impatient, but the author makes that clear. This book is very easy to follow. You don't have to read the whole thing. Some of the chapters are for people who are pretty advanced in the hobby.
Summary: Great book
Rating: 5
A load of info and great tips... A must have for beginners or experienced brewers
Summary: Excellent book for beginning homebrewers
Rating: 5
Homebrewing for Dummies is an excellent resource and how-to guide.
Like all the "dummies" books this book breaks down the subject of homebrewing into simple easy to understand language.
Nachel explains the affects of each ingredient on the beer, as well as step by step brewing and bottling instructions.
If you are just thinking about starting homebrewing read this book first. It will guide you through what equipment to buy, how to brew and what to expect.
If you are already a brewer, Nachel provides a beginner, intermediate and advanced recipe for each of the AHA beer styles.
Summary: This is a very good book...
Rating: 5
This was a surprisingly good book. I've been brewing intermittently for several years (first batch was brewed in 6th grade... 30 years ago!); have read numerous books on the topic... and while this one doesn't go in to the minutiae that some books do, it does an excellent job of walking one through the process of extract/all-grain brewing with some really wonderful tips along the way (I picked up several brewing pointers that I'll be implementing on my next batch). Highly recommend it for newbies and pros alike. Like I said... it doesn't provide for the chemistry of it all, but it does provide very well for the process.
Title: Homebrewing For Dummies