Wild Brews: The craft of home brewing, from sour and fruit beers to farmhouse ales

by Jaega Wise

Overview

An inspiring manual that shows you how to brew beers at home using wild fermentation techniques

WINNER BEST DEBUT DRINKS BOOK AWARD FROM FORTNUM & MASON

James Beard Award nominee

Produced using a mixture of naturally occurring yeasts and bacteria, wild fermented beers offer the ‘fine dining’ of the beer world. These beers are how beer tasted 200 years ago, before brewing was industrialized, and are enjoying a worldwide revival. 

Jaega Wise, head brewer at East London’s Wild Card Brewery, is one of the UK’s experts in wild fermentation. Here, she explains the science behind the brewing process and shares her recipes so that you can experiment at home. Learn how to brew, bottle, and age your beer in wooden barrels, and produce a range of different sour beer styles, farmhouse ales and fruit beers. 

Recipes and styles featured in the book include: 

• German Berliner Weisse (tart and refreshing) and Gose (salty and dry)
• Belgian Lambics, gueze, Flanders red ale and fruit beers
• French Farmhouse ales such as saison and biere de garde
• Norwegian Farmhouse Ales including the Kveik IPA
• English Old Ale

Also included is a trouble-shooter section to guide you through what happens when wild yeast and bacteria get out of control and how to remedy it. Whether you are a beer geek or a home brewing novice, Wild Brews contains everything you need to replicate today’s sour and wild beer styles at home. 

"One of the most respected craft brewers in the country." - Imbibe.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857837813
Publisher:	Octopus Books
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	439,350
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jaega Wise is head brewer at Wild Card Brewery in East London, a qualified chemical engineer, a beer sommelier and a TV presenter. Currently the British Guild of Beer Writers' Brewer of the Year, Jaega is a popular speaker on all things beer and brewing. She is the beer presenter for Channel 5's The Wine Show and is a regular on BBC R4's The Food Programme. Other TV work includes presenting for BBC's Inside the Factory and Channel 4's Food Unwrapped. In 2018 she was named one of the Evening Standard's 1000 Most Influential People in London. This is her first book.

Table of Contents

Introduction 8

1 The Ingredients 18

2 The Microorganisms of the Wild Brewer 58

Lactobacillus 64

Pediococcus 66

Acetobacter 68

Brettanomyces 70

3 Barrel Ageing 74

4 Get Fruity 88

5 Wild Brew Styles 98

Tools of the Trade 100

Types of Beer 102

6 The Recipes 110

The Basic Method 112

Kveik New England IPA 115

Raspberry Saison 118

The Kettle Sour Method 120

Sour Raspberry Saison 122

Gose 124

Passion Fruit Gose 126

The Pitch and Wait Sour Method 128

Berliner Weisse 130

Flanders Red 132

Oud Bruin 134

Lambic 136

Geuze 140

Old Ale 142

7 Packaging Your Beer 144

8 When Things Go Wrong 168

Directory 182

Where to drink 184

Index 188