Product Description

Lutzen and Stevens solicited thousands of homebrewers' favorite recipes throughout North America. Homebrew clubs, brewing suppliers, and homebrewers everywhere took up the call to create Homebrew Favorites, one of the largest recipe collections available today. Features directions and advice for brewing at home. Line drawings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21618 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780882666136
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Booklist
To its tomes on homebrewing and the recent Beer Enthusiast's Guide , Storey Publishing now adds a splendid set of beer recipes. They are sorted into chapters according to style of beer--pale ales, brown ales, porters, stouts, European lagers, etc. There is also a chapter on meads, which are not beers at all but brews based on honey. As the book's very first sentence asserts, the recipes are "for homebrewers"--serious ones. Each recipe has been submitted by a particular homebrewer whose name and comments on the resulting potation introduce the list of ingredients and preparation directions. Libraries with homebrewers already in their clientele really ought to have it, and wherever the book is added, homebrewers might just start springing up. Ray Olson

Review
"...a must for homebrewers interested in expanding their repertoire of beer creations." -- Beer, the magazine

From the Back Cover
"Send us your best," said Karl F. Lutzen and Mark Stevens, in their appeal for the favorite recipes of homebrewers across North America. Homebrew clubs, brewing suppliers, and homebrewers everywhere took up the call. Now here it is -- the largest homebrew recipe collection available today.

Packed with more than 240 great recipes, Homebrew Favorites is a nuts and bolts guide to creating unusual brews at home, including:
-- tested recipes for ales, lagers, lambics, wits , meads, ciders, and more
-- straightforward directions for making each brew
-- comments and brewing tips from contributing brewers
-- an up-to-date overview of brewing information
-- award-winning recipes for everything from simple pale ales and full-bodied lagers to exotic Bengal Spice Beer and Cranberry Ale

Customer Reviews

An excellent book from extract to all grain!
Karl presents a comprehensive collection of ale and lager recipes. The recipes include both extract and all grain recipes at about a 50/50 porportion.

I enjoyed the book immensely as I was departing from kits and following recipes. All the recipes I made came out fantastic and I still make some of them today.

Some of the things I exceptionally, liked are:

Several recipes come from competitions. I had found these recipes came out exceptionally well.

Although one would think that the recipes from competitions would be more complex, but in fact they were not.

I used the book for extract recipes only, so I cannot comment on the all grain recipes. However speaking for the extract recipes, it is certainly a book I have read time and time again as I select what type of beer I am going to make next.

good book for ideas
I liked this book, but I am not sure if I will ever use any of the exact recipes. It is a good source for ideas on what other people have done. It is much like when a neighborhood puts out a cookbook, but this time is is a nation's homebrew recipe book.

Good for Extract Brewers
Not a bad recipe book, but I'd say much more valuable to extract brewers as over half are extract recipes. I've definitely gotten some good ideas from it, but was a bit disappointed there weren't more all-grain recipes. There are only a few that I have any interest in brewing. Still it serves as a good reference when developing a new recipe. Most of all it's interesting to see what recipes other homebrewers have had success with.