Home Brew Recipe Bible: An Incredible Array of 101 Craft Beer Recipes, From Classic Styles to Experimental Wilds

by Chris Colby

Overview

Your Comprehensive Guide to Brewing and Beyond

If you’ve ever wanted to learn to brew beer from an expert, look no further. Award-winning homebrewer Chris Colby of Beer & Wine Journal offers recipes for every major style of beer to teach novice, intermediate and advanced brewers more about the craft and science of brewing. From classic styles like pale ales, IPAs, stouts and porters, to experimental beers such as oyster stout, bacon-smoked porter and jolly rancher watermelon wheat, brewers will learn more about brewing techniques and beer ingredients. Chris also shows how recipes can be modified to suit an individual brewer’s taste or to transform one beer style into a related style, creating a lot of different and fantastic beer options.

Quench your thirst for brewing knowledge on a journey through 101 different beers, spanning all the major beer categories in the 2016 Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) guidelines and most in the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) guidelines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781624143144
Publisher:	Page Street Publishing
Publication date:	09/20/2016
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	1,028,726
Product dimensions:	8.01(w) x 8.95(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Chris Colby is the editor of Beer & Wine Journal. He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in biology and chemistry, and a PhD in biology. He previously served as a science editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston and as editor of Brew Your Own and WineMaker magazines. He lives in Bastrop, Texas.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Section 1 Making the Most of These Recipes 9

Section 2 The Recipes 19

1 Beers Made With Malt Extract: Brilliant Beginnings 23

1 Session IPA 25

2 American Amber Ale 27

3 Blonde Ale 30

4 Strong Bitter 32

5 American Porter 34

6 Irish Red Ale 37

7 American Brown Ale 39

8 English IPA 41

9 Belgian-Style Dubbel 43

10 American Doable IPA 45

2 Dark Ales: Roasty and Delicious 49

11 Dry Stout 51

12 Dry Stout (II) 53

13 British Brown Ale 56

14 English Porter 58

15 Robust Porter 60

16 Sweet Stout 63

17 Oatmeal Stout 66

18 Foreign Export Stout 69

19 Black IPA Blender 71

20 Baltic Porter 73

21 Imperial Smoked Porter Dan Ironside 75

22 Belgian Quadrupel 77

23 Imperial Stout 79

3 Amber Ales: Sumptuous Specialty Halts 83

24 Mild Ale 85

25 Scottish Light 87

26 Scottish Heavy 89

27 Altbier 91

28 Scottish Export 93

29 West Coast Amber Ale 95

30 Amber Ale Denny Conn 97

31 Old Ale 99

32 Wee Heavy 101

33 English Barleywine 102

4 Pale Ales: From Well-Balanced to Hop Heaven 105

34 Ordinary Bitter 107

35 Session IPA 109

36 Best Bitter 111

37 Australian Sparkling Ale 114

38 Kölsch 116

39 American Wheat 119

40 Cream Ale 121

41 American Pale Ale 123

42 American Pale Ale (II) 126

43 California Common 128

44 American IPA 130

45 American IPA (II) 133

46 Belgian IPA 135

47 Rye IPA 137

48 Imperial IPA 139

49 Belgian Strong Golden Ale 141

50 Tripel 144

51 American Barleywine 146

52 Reiterated Mash Beer 148

53 Imperial Barleywine 150

5 Dark and Amber Lagers: Rich, Malty and Satisfying 153

54 American Bock 155

55 Schwarzbier 158

56 Amber Lager 160

57 Vienna Lager 162

58 Rauchbier 164

59 Munich Dunkel 166

60 Octoberfest 168

61 Bockbier (or Dunkles Bock) 170

62 Doppelbock 172

63 Eisbock 174

6 Pale Lagers: Crisp and Clean 177

64 Munich Helles 179

65 German Pils 183

66 Classic American Pilsner 184

67 Dortmunder Export 187

68 Bohemian Pilsner 190

69 American Malt Liquor 192

70 Maibock (Helles Bock) 194

7 Beer Brewed with Specialty Yeast or Bacteria: Take a Walk on the Wild Side 197

71 Berliner Weisse 199

72 Raspberry Lambic 201

73 Gueuze 203

74 Lambic 205

75 Munich-Style German Hefeweizen 207

76 Roggenbier 210

77 Flanders Red 212

78 Dunkelweizen (Dunkles Weissbier) 214

79 Brettanomyces Beer 216

80 Saison 218

8 Beers Made with Special Ingredients: Interesting and Experimental Flavored Brews 221

81 Coffee Stout 223

82 Cocoa Brown Ale 226

83 Soda Pop Saison 229

84 Sweet Potato Bitter 230

85 Honey Wheat 233

86 Peanut Butter Porter 235

87 Malternative Beverage 239

88 Cranberry Wheat Beer 240

89 Witbier 243

90 Raspberry Wheat 245

91 Maple Syrup Amber Ale 248

92 Bacon-Smoked Porter 251

93 Breakfast Cereal Wheat Beer James Spencer 252

94 Oyster Stout 254

95 Jolly Rancher Watermelon Wheat 256

96 Cherry Stout 257

97 Gotlandsdricka 259

98 Ninkasi Ale 260

99 Old Ale (with Spruce Tips) 261

100 Spiked Winter Warmer 262

101 Tripel Braggot Mark Schoppe 264

Acknowledgments 266

About the Author 267

Index 268

Editorial Reviews

Here’s a ‘how-to’ homebrew book within a homebrew recipe book. I found myself reading recipes for styles I rarely brew just to find Chris’s well-expressed brewing tips. Great recipes as promised but there’s so much more.” —Mike “Tasty” McDole, Brewing Network

“In Home Brew Recipe Bible, Chris isn’t trying to reinvent the homebrew wheel, but he does put a great new spin on it. And I’m not sure which is more robust, the book’s presentation or Colby’s House Porter!” —Marty Nachel, author of Homebrewing for Dummies and Beer for Dummies

“Not only is this book packed with great recipes, but also every one gives you a chance to understand more about homebrewing. You learn something and end up with a great-tasting beer to boot!” —Denny Conn, coauthor of Experimental Brewing and Homebrew All-Stars

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