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

Description

Chris Colby from Beer & Wine Journal serves as the brewmaster for this collection of 100 recipes for home brewing! Chris' Vienna Lager won silver in the 2004 National Homebrew Competition, as well as a Best of Show in 2004 and several lesser ribbons from his contest days. Here, he'll show you how to take the freshest ingredients and create a lot of different and fantastic beers to choose from. Chris will take you on a journey through 100 different styles of beer, spanning every category from the 2008 Beer Judge Certification (BJCP) guidelines and most of the styles listed in the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) guidelines. Chris has taken these styles of beer and highlighted a unique, associated technique with the particular beer's brewing process, as well as effectively showing you how to transform your beer from one style to another. For example, Chris shows you how to take a plain American pale ale and turn it into a rye pale ale by swapping the pale malt with rye malt. Chris has also included recipes for barleywines, lagers, witbiers and eisbocks, to name a few!

Chris Colby is the editor of Beer & Wine Journal. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Chemistry. Chris previously served as editor for Holt, Rinehart and Winston and magazines Brew Your Own and Wine Maker. He lives in Austin, Texas.

"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