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Brewing Quality Beers: The Home Brewer’s Essential Guidebook

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Brewing Quality Beers: The Home Brewer's Essential Guidebook
 
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This short book is the finest how-to manual for home brewers. First, it provides a succinctly readable introduction to get novices safely through their first few batches. Then, it goes on to present the best available introductions to intermediate and advanced brewing.

BQB does not attempt to be an encyclopedia. Rather, it presents a clear procedural guideline for someone to follow in order to succeed. The book includes recipes to help newcomers avoid potential problems, but the intent is to teach the reader about the various brewing ingredients, and how they work together, so brewers will be inspired and enabled to create successful recipes on their own.

No other home brewing textbook is written by an author with Byron Burch's extraordinary set of qualifications:

First, as a national champion home brewer (1986) and meadmaker (1992 and 1994) his expertise is obvious.

Second, since 1972, he has worked in the brewing and winemaking supply trade, creating a highly successful business, despite its being located in a town of only modest size. Along the way, he has taught countless new brewers, which gives him an exceptional grasp of what they want and need to know, what questions they have, and how much information they can absorb at one time.

Third, having a master's degree in English, he is able to pass along his brewing expertise in a disciplined, clear, and effective manner that benefits would-be home brewers.

Brewing Quality Beers is the book you should study if you want your home brewing venture to become an engrossing hobby.

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Exceptional, concise guide to homebrewing
 
Review Date: October 13, 1998
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This is the first book I bought before I brewed my first batch from extract--the beer turned out great and I've never looked back. Since then I've expanded my homebrewing library to include Papazian's "Joy of Homebrewing", Miller's books, Noonan's "New Brewing Lager Beers", and others, but as a guide to the basic nuts and bolts of homebrewing, nothing beats this book, and it is the one I turn to first if I have a question I want answered quickly. First time brewers would do well to read this. Highly recommended.
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Review Date: July 6, 2003
Reviewer: Brian D. Gabriel, Miami, FL
Got this book for my first batch. Still refer to it now. This thin manual is all you need to know for your first batch, and even has a (not complete) section on all-grain. While charlie's "joy of" is still a neccesity for first timers, this book contains all the bare-bones info you need and you will need for your first and consecutive batches, without the editorializing and romanticizing of "joy of".
Brewing Quality Beers: The Home Brewer's Essential Guidebook
 
Review Date: August 14, 2000
Reviewer: Paul Magee, SC
Excellent is all I can say. This book is very good at covering all aspects needed to get a person off on the right foot. I enjoyed this book and have made very tasty brews with the help of this book.
Brewing Quality Beers
 
Review Date: July 7, 2006
Reviewer: Tony Reis, Jacksonville, OR USA
This is a first-rate brewing classic. It simplifies many brewing complexities and delivers accurate and practical information. Byron Burch is a great teacher and brewer and this book reflects his dedication to getting new brewers started and improving veteran brewers. He directs the reader to the most efficient path to brewing quality. Even after 30 years of brewing, I find myself returning to "Brewing Quality Beers".
A "Must Have" for home brewers
 
Review Date: September 22, 2006
Reviewer: Amos Brooks, Connecticut, USA
This is an excellent reference for anyone interested in brewing beer. It explains everything you need to know step by step in great detail. All the arcane details are fully explained and easy to find if you need to go back and look something up. A great book!

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