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Date: 16 Nov 2006 13:30:20
From: MattMika
Subject: 'Brews on hand?' and 'Which brew book?'
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I'm looking to have several beers available at any given time, prolly
around 5 should do. I'll prolly keep one swill clone around for the
beer pansies I know and rotate the others around. How many different
styles do most of you keep on hand at any given time?
Also I've never actually read a brewing book, I've got all my info
online so far.
I would like to get some recommendations on a good book for the
homebrewer. I have about 10 extract brews and 15 AG brews under my
belt and have a decent understanding of basic procedure. I'd like a
book that presents some of the technical aspects, but not so technical
that its not applicable to homebrewing. Any ideas?
TIA
Matt Mika
"These animals evacuate ethyl alcohol from their bowels and carbon dioxide from their urinary organs. Thus, one can observe how a specially lighter fluid is exuded from the anus and rises vertically whereas a stream of carbon dioxide is ejected at very short intervals from enormously long genitales."
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Date: 16 Nov 2006 19:53:33
From: David M. Taylor
Subject: Re: 'Brews on hand?' and 'Which brew book?'
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"MattMika" <mattmika@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:d6ipl21ngj0lqt4dtbpuhpnfa6kvfl3f9v@4ax.com...
> I'm looking to have several beers available at any given time, prolly
> around 5 should do. I'll prolly keep one swill clone around for the
> beer pansies I know and rotate the others around. How many different
> styles do most of you keep on hand at any given time?
I'm a bottle man, and if you count everything, I've always got at least a
couple bottles each of about 6 or 7 kinds of homebrews sitting around
someplace either in my fridge or in cases in the basement. But I usually
only have one to two partially filled cases of maybe two kinds of brew.
Then of course right after I bottle I have more than one case of that kind,
but only a few bottles of the others. So, the fact is, there's always a
little of this, a little of that, and a lot of one or two kinds around.
Make sense?
> Also I've never actually read a brewing book, I've got all my info
> online so far.
>
> I would like to get some recommendations on a good book for the
> homebrewer. I have about 10 extract brews and 15 AG brews under my
> belt and have a decent understanding of basic procedure. I'd like a
> book that presents some of the technical aspects, but not so technical
> that its not applicable to homebrewing. Any ideas?
Every serious homebrewer needs a copy of Ray Daniels' "Designing Great
Beers". It's such a great book that I keep it by my side at all times and
refer to it several times a week. Seriously.
--
Dave
"Fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking." -- Brad Paisley
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Date: 17 Nov 2006 16:06:14
From: John Bleichert
Subject: Re: 'Brews on hand?' and 'Which brew book?'
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David M. Taylor <dmtaylor@spam.geocities.sucks.com > wrote:
> "MattMika" <mattmika@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d6ipl21ngj0lqt4dtbpuhpnfa6kvfl3f9v@4ax.com...
>> I'm looking to have several beers available at any given time, prolly
>> around 5 should do. I'll prolly keep one swill clone around for the
>> beer pansies I know and rotate the others around. How many different
>> styles do most of you keep on hand at any given time?
>
> I'm a bottle man, and if you count everything, I've always got at least a
> couple bottles each of about 6 or 7 kinds of homebrews sitting around
> someplace either in my fridge or in cases in the basement. But I usually
> only have one to two partially filled cases of maybe two kinds of brew.
> Then of course right after I bottle I have more than one case of that kind,
> but only a few bottles of the others. So, the fact is, there's always a
> little of this, a little of that, and a lot of one or two kinds around.
> Make sense?
>
>> Also I've never actually read a brewing book, I've got all my info
>> online so far.
>>
>> I would like to get some recommendations on a good book for the
>> homebrewer. I have about 10 extract brews and 15 AG brews under my
>> belt and have a decent understanding of basic procedure. I'd like a
>> book that presents some of the technical aspects, but not so technical
>> that its not applicable to homebrewing. Any ideas?
>
> Every serious homebrewer needs a copy of Ray Daniels' "Designing Great
> Beers". It's such a great book that I keep it by my side at all times and
> refer to it several times a week. Seriously.
>
I agree with everyone else on Daniel's book. It's a great book
if you like to experiment.
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John Bleichert syborg@earthlink.net
The heat from below can burn your eyes out!!
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Date: 16 Nov 2006 15:05:39
From: The Artist Formerly Known as Kap'n Salty
Subject: Re: 'Brews on hand?' and 'Which brew book?'
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MattMika wrote:
> I'm looking to have several beers available at any given time, prolly
> around 5 should do. I'll prolly keep one swill clone around for the
> beer pansies I know and rotate the others around. How many different
> styles do most of you keep on hand at any given time?
I keep anywhere from 2 to 7 on hand -- depends on how much I'm brewing
and drinking.
>
> Also I've never actually read a brewing book, I've got all my info
> online so far.
>
How to Brew by John Palmer has some reasonable technical information,
plus it's actually online as well as in print form. For brewing lager
beers, Noonan's "New Brewing Lager Beers" is a great book. "Designing
Great Beers" by Daniels is a good survey of brewing info for various
styles, although it doesn't cover Belgians at all or dark lager styles.
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Date: 18 Nov 2006 09:38:48
From: Andy Davison
Subject: Re: 'Brews on hand?' and 'Which brew book?'
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On Thursday 16 November 2006 20:30, MattMika wrote:
> I would like to get some recommendations on a good book for the
> homebrewer.
How To Brew by John Palmer is very good (see the website www.howtobrew.com
for the online version) but if you see a cheap copy of The CAMRA Guide To
Homebrewing by Graham Wheeler definitely pick it up. Also his Brew Your Own
British Real Ale both of which are out of print and going for silly money
(BYOBRA is available om ebay for $50 or abebooks for $95 but the Guide is
not even available there.
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Andy Davison
andy [at] oiyou [dot] ukfsn [dot] org
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