Mastering Home Brew: The Complete Guide to Brewing Delicious Beer

Description

From globally heralded beer-brewing authority Randy Mosher comes the ultimate guide to the craft for beginners and advanced brewers alike. Featuring plain-speaking, fun-to-read instructions, more than 200 photos and 300 colorful graphics and illustrations of process and technique, and 30 recipes for classic and popular brews, this handbook covers everything a homebrewer wants to understand, from choosing ingredients and equipment to mashing, bottling, tasting and serving. With much-lauded expertise and charisma, Mosher simplifies the complexities and invigorates the cultish beer-making tradition, inspiring and teaching today's burgeoning new league of homebrewers.

Randy Mosher is a nationally recognized author and expert in the field of beer and brewing. He writes for all the national and international beer and brewing-related periodicals, has lectured to audiences across the globe, and teaches beer style courses at the Siebel Institute in Chicago. His interests in beer and brewing memorabilia combined with his experience as a branding and packaging designer, specializing in beer and food. He is also the author of Tasting Beer, Radical Brewing and The Brewer's Companion. His website is http://www.radicalbrewing.com. Famed beer writer Michael Jackson has called Mosher 'some kind of homebrewing genius.' Randy participated in the Australian National Homebrewers Conference in October, 2010.

Randy is a walking encyclopedia of beer and brewing, and his palate and taste are impeccable. - From the Foreword by Jim Koch, Chairman and Cofounder, The Boston Beer Company