The Complete Joy of Homebrewing: Fully Revised and Updated

Charlie Papazian

Oct 2014 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

The homebrewer's bible—everything you need to know to brew beer at home from start to finish, including new recipes, updated charts on hop varieties, secrets to fermentation, beer kit tips, and more—from the master of homebrewing

The Complete Joy of Homebrewing is the essential guide to understanding and making a full range of beer styles, including ales, lagers, stouts, pilseners, dubbels, tripels, and homerun specialty beers and meads. Everything to get started is here: the basics of building a home brewery, world-class proven recipes, easy-to-follow brewing instructions, and the latest insights in the art and science of brewing. Master brewer Charlie Papazian also explains the history and lore of beer, reveals the technology behind brewing, and shares countless tips on how to create your own original ales and lagers.

This completely revised and updated edition includes:

• An expanded and updated Beer Styles and Homebrew Recipe Formulation chart with easy-to-understand descriptions of key flavor and aroma characters
• Ingredient information for fifty-three beer styles
• A list of more than seventy-five beer types describing strength, hop aroma, bitterness, flavor, color, sweetness, and alcohol percentage
• Expanded chart on sixty-eight hop varieties, descriptions, and uses
• Eighty brand-new and revised favorite beer and mead recipes
• Beer kit tips
• Key information about using and understanding hops
• Revealing reasons why homebrew is the best . . . and much more!

Paired with the newly revised Homebrewer's Companion, Second Edition, this book will transform you from beginning brewer to homebrewing expert.

Ratings and reviews

Interesting and well written, mixing straight forward facts and information with a good dose of humour. From an English stand point there is a little hassle as the recipes are designed around 5US gallons rather than the gallon used in the UK and other places in the world, however the comparable volumes in metric (litres and grams) which are universal so it is only a minor hassle and allows for a straight forward conversion if you do wish to brew a full UK pressure barrel full.

About the author

Charlie Papazian is the founder of the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) and the Association of Brewers and the current president of the Brewers Association. The creator of the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup, he is the founding publisher of the magazines Zymurgy (for homebrewers) and The New Brewer (for professional craftbrewers). He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Sandra, and daughter, Carla, where he still avidly homebrews lagers, ales, and honey meads.