Product Description

Using this handbook, homebrewers, tinkerers, and putterers can create their own microbrewery that is safe and makes brewing easier.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #114422 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From Booklist
This is, quite simply, the one guide a home brewer needs. Understandable drawings of pieces, assemblies, and connections abound, and specifications are presented in explicit detail. Given the mess that a malfunctioning setup for brewing at home can cause, Lutzen and Stevens' attention to detail and plain language are indispensable, and their instructions welcomely cover setting up an outdoor brewing facility and bottling and kegging the finished product, too. Heck, they even advise about home hops growing and yeast culturing. All in all, this is a spicy, but not yeasty, high-end kind of read that has good nose, is filling without being heavy, and is possessed of a tart and tangy aftertaste that neither lingers too long nor displeases the palate. Mike Tribby

From the Back Cover
Proper equipment takes the hassle out of homebrewing.

There's nothing that quite matches the satisfaction of having just the right tool or equipment to perform a task -- and brewing tools are no exception, especially when you've created or adapted them yourself. Homebrewing authors Karl F. Lutzen and Mark Stevens offer great ideas, from home-sized versions of commercial brewery equipment to simple gadgets that make brewing easier or safer. To help brewers choose the best tools, they offer a balanced evaluation of the advantages and drawbacks of each.

Brew Ware contains step-by-step projects and devices for:

-- Ingredient processing and storage

-- Working with wort

-- Chilling and aerating wort

-- Fermenting

-- Measuring

-- Bottling

-- Kegging

-- Mashing

About the Author
Co-author of three Storey books, Karl F. Lutzen is also an editor of the on-line public domain recipe collections, Cat's Meow I, II, III. His Storey books include Homebrew Favorites and More Homebrew Favorites.

Co-author of three Storey books, Mark Stevens is also an editor of the on-line public domain recipe collections, Cat's Meow I, II, III. His Storey books include Homebrew Favorites and More Homebrew Favorites. Mark is a technical writer who is a member of the American Homebrewers Association and the Beer Judge Certification Program. His articles have appeared in All About Beer magazine.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource
As a library administrator, I get to see and read a lot of books pertaining to all my hobbies and I can honestly say that this book is a must have for anyone starting out in home brewing. It details all of the equipment you will need for basic to semi-advanced brewing. I particularly like the fact that this book gives you instructions on how to completely fabricate your own equipment, partially fabricate it, and what to look for if you intend to purchase commercially manufactured equipment. It is sort of the bible of brewing equipment and I was so impressed with it I actually bought my own copy (the highest recommendation a librarian can give). Cheers!

Just can't bring myself to buy it
I can't tell you how many times I've picked this book up with the intention of buying it. I've ended up putting it back on the shelf every time. Reason? There simply isn't enough content of value. First, a lot of it is simply obvious. Second, a lot of it is available elsewhere. Third, it's simplistic. Fourth, it's irritating that that it includes commercially-made items (i.e., not everything is about home-made items, in spite of the title). Finally, it's just not that well written. I've read it through standing in the bookstore a dozen times. I guess I think I'll find something I've missed. I never do ...

Buy it only if you're absolutely strapped, are just starting out, and really don't know where to begin.

Brew Ware: How to
Good step by step procedure on how to make your first batch then takes you to the next levels step by step. Tells what essential equipment needed, offers simple alternatives. With this book I was finally able to see and understand the process clearly.