Aazure.587 net.wines utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!cbosg!teklabs!tekmdp!azure!stevenm Tue Mar 2 09:42:44 1982 Beer Brewing Bibliography Here is a bibliography on books and magazine for home beer brewing. I am not sure of the source of this, because I got it through a somewhat strange path. S. McGeady ~~ *BOOKS* The Big Book of Brewing by Dave Line Required reading. The most detailed and technical book on homebrewing. Deals mainly with mashing (brewing from grain) but good information on hops, water treatment, etc. Recipes and techniques based on English ingredients, some of which aren't available here, but book is still useful. Line also has a book on beer kits and one on imitating commercial beers, both of which are probably good. A Treatise on Lager Beers by Fred Eckhardt Good stuff, if somewhat disorganized. Advanced techniques for extract brewing. Mainly about lagers but also applies to other types of beer. Much of what he says also applies to all-grain brewing. Eckhardt is the publisher of The Amateur Brewer. Brew Your Own by Scotty Morgan "A Beginner's Mashing Manual". Not much on theory but a clear description of what is probably the easiest mashing system (using an insulated Igloo beverage cooler as a combination mash and lauter tun). The type of mash described (a single temperature infusion mash) is theoretically restricted to English malts but in practice works quite well with American malt. Quality Brewing by Byron Burch Good basic book on extract brewing. Burch is manager of Great Fermentations, one of the better brewing supply outfits. Home Brewing For Americans by Dave Miller Fairly detailed discussion of grain brewing techniques adapted to American ingredients. Occasionally narrow-minded but still useful. The Art of Making Beer by Stanley Anderson and Raymond Hull Home Brewed Beers and Stouts by C.J.J. Berry Both of these books are somewhat dated. Berry's recipes are based on English ingredients but the book is not as detailed or authoritative as Line. The recipes in both of these books use too much sugar (the use of sugar as a fermentable other than the small amount used in priming adversely affects taste). Other than this the Anderson and Hull book is okay but is not very "competitive." Brewing Quality Beer at Home by Leigh Beadle The (Reader's Digest condensed) gospel according to Beadle or idiot-proof brewing for idiots. Beadle is an asshole who is stuck on himself (in himself?). His basic premise is that one should know as little as possible about what one is doing. Avoid him. *MAGAZINES* Zymurgy - This is the journal of the American Homebrewers Association, who are basically a bunch of redneck beer drunks. They manage to get some decent articles in the magazine, however, and Zymurgy is improving noticeably. Both Zymurgy and HFD occasionally have good articles on technique or equipment but they are also interesting for seeing what other brewers are up to. Quarterly. $12/yr. Home Fermenters Digest - Also covers winemaking, sometimes seemingly to the exclusion of brewing. Not quite as slap-happy a crowd as the AHA but HFD sometimes still seems afraid of getting down to the nitty-gritty. Poorly produced but cheaper than Zymurgy. Monthly. $12/yr. The Amateur Brewer - The nitty-gritty. Concerned with the production and promotion of good beer. More theoretically or technically oriented than the other two. Occasionally.(Now annual after proving unable to cope with quarterly schedule.) $6/yr. for AB and three newsletters. *MAILORDER OUTFITS* William's Brewing (recomended) P.O. Box 461 Oakland, CA 94604 Great Fermentations (recomended) 87 Larkspur San Rafael, CA 94901 Bacchanalia P.O. Box 51 Central Village, MA 02790 see also classifieds in Mother Earth News ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.