1st Homebrew

Aug 08, 2004 6 Replies

Greetings Gents:



As you know, this last year I have traveled the road far, from Natural Ice-ville to wonderful stouts, ales, whites, bitters, and porters. I am now ready to move on into the unknown and exciting world of homebrewing. Can any of you recommend a good website that contains literature on novice homebrewing, or maybe a book. Thanks in advance.



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Here's a favorite and much respected book, available online and as treeware:

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nb

You might want to venture on over to rec.crafts.brewing. Newsgroup dedicated to brewing, with the vast majority of it focused on homebrewing.

Back when I was brewing, I poked around

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a bit. As for books, the classic introductory homebrew text is "The New Complete Joy of Homebrewing" by Charlie Papazian. Be forewarned that his writing style is not for everyone (personally, I find it the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard), and a lot of his info isn't really correct but will work for beginning homebrewing. A better text is "Homebrewing Vol. 1" by Al Korzonas. But, ask the r.c.b. gang what's best. I've been out of the brewing game for better than four years now, and I don't know what's new that might be even better.

-Steve

Association of brewers site. SOme good pdf articles. Have fun brewing!!

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Mike

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What everyone else said plus: Homebrewing for Dummies. Yep. I know, some people HATE these books but the author is a guy named Marty Nachel his writing style is very readable and it is an excellent resource plus thorough step by step instructions for beginning and intermediate brewing. I still use it to look up hop varieties sometimes, also it's got about 100 recipes.

_Randal

Thanks you guys! I can't wait to see how it turns out. It's going to be a great winter!

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1st edidition content downloaDABLE to print...2nd edition BOOK purchase much handier and more recent

yodar

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