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Books : Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer StylesIn association with Amazon.comby: Ray Daniels  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.47 You Save: $8.48 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 663.42 EAN: 9780937381502 ISBN: 0937381500 Label: Brewers Publications Manufacturer: Brewers Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 404 Publication Date: January 25, 2000 Publisher: Brewers Publications Studio: Brewers Publications Sales Rank: 3633 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Author Ray Daniels provides the brewing formulas, tables, and information to take your brewing to the next level in this detailed technical manual. Amazon.com Review: Part 1 of Designing Great Beers is a complete book in itself, focused solely on home-brewing ingredients and techniques (including three superb chapters on hops alone). Ray Daniels proves himself the "techie" type, infusing his introductory chapters with as much brewing math as brewing lore. Yet, Daniels never hops off the deep end of beer geekdom. Instead, he complements this emphasis on data with the creative use of graphics; where one could get bogged down in the stats, there is usually a clear visual depiction to instantly summarize their meaning. This focus on facts continues into part 2 of Daniels's guide, where it backs an admirably pragmatic take on beer styles and their importance in home-brewing. Daniels devotes a chapter to each of 14 major style categories, detailing historical origins and modern brewing techniques. He lays a contemporary groundwork by compiling and analyzing the recipes of the National Homebrew Competition's most successful beers. The assumption is that beers deemed representative of particular beer styles in modern competitions serve as ideal models for recipe creation. Among the information provided for each style is a chart showing the percentage of brewers using each type of grain and in what proportions the grains were added. Similar data are supplied for hop varieties, yeast strains, and water treatment. This reverse engineering of award-winning beers naturally benefits experienced brewers seeking to wow judges at the next competition. Yet, even brewers taking their first shy steps into creating their own recipes have much to gain from this kind of practical analysis. Daniels provides the basic tools a brewer of any level can use to formulate recipes with confidence and creativity. --Todd Gehman Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent, Solid ResourceThis book is an excellent, in-depth resource on the subject of homebrewing. It is an incredibly detailed and well-researched book, and doesn't shy away from simple math, as many others on the subject do. For those brewers that aren't as mathematically inclined, the equations presented are tabulated, so that they never HAVE to be used. Daniels carefully explains the factors that affect important brewing parameters, such as OG, IBUs, extraction efficiency and water quantities and chemistry, and describes ... Read More Rating: - One of the classics on the subjectRay Daniels' Designing Great Beers was my second book - after John Palmer's How To Brew. Though I have since read many more brewing books, this is by far my favorite. I read it in a week - and three more times in the following months. It is well written, well organized, and an overall joy to read. Being a bit of a beer history and styles buff, I very much enjoyed well-referenced sections on classic beer styles. One could build a complete library from the references in this book. Well done, Mr. Daniels. Rating:  - Beer MathActually, I bought this book when it originally came out. The pages are in tattered now, but I can't live without it and all the notes placed in the margins. It's a superb guidebook for brewing. I recently purchased a new copy for a friend, a fellow homebrewer. Why? Because, if you are a serious homebrewer, this is the best reference I know of. It takes a while to get the formulas cross-referenced and the graphical choices for what you are brewing in line, but the math works. I really think ... Read More Rating: - Aimed at the competitive brewerThis book is best regarded as a recipe guide for the competitive brewer. While the styles presented are regrettably limited, the styles that are presented are wonderful. Each style section presents the ingredient incidence and range of ingredient percentages for both commercial examples as well as 2nd round National Homebrew Competition entries. There are very helpful comments on each style as well - mash approaches, comments on the different malt bills, etc. I have to stress the notion that this is ... Read More Rating: - Excellent source for creating YOUR brewThis book is concise and broken into two major sections, the science and the styles. The first part, dealing with the math & science of brewing, goes through all of the critical calculations for creating your own recipes, and provides and excellent reference for hitting a target gravity or a desired hop level. The second part goes through the major styles of beer (focused on the styles as they are seen in competitive brewing), giving a history and summarizing each style as to ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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