 | How to Brew: Everything You Need To Know To Brew Beer Right The First Time by John J. Palmer
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $14.00 If you are only going to buy one book, get this one. The first edition is available online, free, this is the 3rd edition. I have the second edition and refer to it almost everytime I brew. One of three books everyone recommends as a first book - the third is "Homebrewing for dummies" which I've never read.
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 | The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition (Harperresource Book) by Charles Papazian
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $8.25 Lots of people recommend this, but I don't - I tend to like more technical books. The author is very friendly and folksy but never left me with confidence that I was doing it right. Zillions of people have learned to brew with this book.
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 | Radical Brewing: Recipes, Tales and World-Altering Meditations in a Glass by Randy Mosher
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.59 most extensive discussion of the uses and effects of the widest range of ingredients, and some discussion of alternate yeasts. Truly excellent book, very interesting recipes. This is book #2 or #3 for your library. One of the three books I refer to all the time.
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 | Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles by Ray Daniels
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.44 an incredible resource, he goes methodically thru different ingredients, processes, procedure - how will each element affect flavor, color, taste - and has good analysis of major elements of recipe and process for making each of the major styles of beer. probably the second book you should buy after palmer's book. One of the three books I refer to all the time.
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 | Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.67 excellent fourth or fifth book, goes far beyond traditional concepts of beer, this is mainly about use of non-traditional adjuncts - the author is an herbalist.
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 | Alewife's Garden: 7 Radical Weeds for Brewing Herbal Ales by Christie V. Sarles Jillian VanNostrand
Buy new: $11.00 / Used from: $6.00 very easy introduction to making herbal beers and brewing with 7 herbs - read the entire book in one hour - they keep it all really simple.
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 | The Homebrewer's Garden: How to Easily Grow, Prepare, and Use Your Own Hops, Malts, Brewing Herbs by Joe Fisher
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $8.34 If you've got a garden ...... more extensive treatment of growing hops, barley and wide assortment of herbs
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 | The Homebrewer's Companion by Charles Papazian
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $8.66 another book to skip, excellent in its day, but time has passed it by
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 | Brew Ware: How to Find, Adapt & Build Homebrewing Equipment by Karl F. Lutzen
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $10.49 published in 1996, this excellent book is obsolete, the information in it is mostly available online
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 | The Compleat Meadmaker : Home Production of Honey Wine From Your First Batch to Award-winning Fruit and Herb Variations by Ken Schramm
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.51 ***The book*** on meads
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 | Homebrewing - Volume I by Al Korzonas
Buy used from: $15.00 This is a really excellent 3rd or 4th book. Its a little bit dated, and really focuses on the extract brewer. I really really really hope he publishes volume 2 which I would buy in a minute. Absolutely THE best troubleshooting guide in print. Ton of great info in this book
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 | Beer Captured by Tess Szamatulski
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $11.35 A very broad collection of clone recipes, including a lot of unusual (but excellent) beers - strong belgians for example. Be aware that they only use Weast yeast, it is really written for the extract brewer, but does have all grain recipes for each. I haven't tried the recipes yet ...
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 | Scotch Ale (Classic Beer Style Series) by Greg Noonan
Buy new: $10.75 / Used from: $4.53 lot of great historical research, weak on current recipes, still, its the single best book on this style.
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 | New Brewing Lager Beer: The Most Comprehensive Book for Home and Microbrewers by Gregory J. Noonan
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.93 Wow! I'm only about 50 pages in - incredible amount of technical information - more that Designing Great Beers - I'll update this later as I read more. Everyone tells me this is the book for lagering.
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