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: #128440 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-08
• 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

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.

Good, but not great.
I recommend this book as a collection of plans and details you can generally find in many other places. However, most of the information is available for free elsewhere.

If you are just getting started brewing, this book might save you a little money in giving you the basics of how to build your own equipment, but a caveat to that is that you should also subscribe to a good online brewer's forum.

Older information, but pretty good book
A lot of the information in this book is outdated, like the references they use for purchasing certain equipment, but the "bones" of the book are great. A ton of good ideas.