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| Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles | 
 enlarge | Author: Ray Daniels
Publisher: Brewers Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 3641
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 404
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 0937381500
Dewey Decimal Number: 663.42
EAN: 9780937381502
ASIN: 0937381500
Publication Date: January 25, 2000
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Condition: Brand new item. Over 3.5 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: B20081202223058T
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent source for creating YOUR brew August 11, 2008
This book is concise and broken into two major sections, the science and the styles.
The first part, dealing with the math & science of brewing, goes through all of the critical calculations for creating your own recipes, and provides and excellent reference for hitting a target gravity or a desired hop level.
The second part goes through the major styles of beer (focused on the styles as they are seen in competitive brewing), giving a history and summarizing each style as to major constituents (from a grain & hops perspective) as well as good target gravities, bitterness & characteristics.
This book has helped me to create many batches of excellent beer. At this point, I've forgone recipes not my own...
Fantastic Reference - waiting for 2nd version August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my number one reference book for designing my new batches of beer, but I'm looking for a better one. This is the book I pick up when I decide to brew a new batch. It has excellent technical info in the first half of the book (*however, I'd prefer an even more in depth discussion of mathematics, since I like to calculate these things for my beers - I end up struggling with converting the equations to ways that I can use - I wish there were more equations and a more complicated discussion of mathematical things such as calculating hop utilization, controlling mash techniques for sugar profiles, fermentation temperature control, and brew chemistry). The second half has a short, well written history and background for each of beer discussed, and compares many recipes within a given style, providing the reader an adequite understanding of the style so that you can design one for yourself. Useful tables and graphs are available for every type of beer discussed, such as the percentage of beers that used a particular type of grain, and the range of % malt bill for each grain. **I wish the 2nd half of the book would have a seperate section for each of the 20-something beer style categories. I highly recommend this book. I wish he would design a 2nd volume that would delve a little deeper, though.
just what i was looking for August 4, 2008
gives a great base to create your own recipes based on the style you are looking for. should be easy to adjust your second and third batches if need be
 Good for reference July 13, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is a very technical book with lots of graphs and charts. If I ever have any technical homebrew questions, I will pull out this book. I might need to go back to college and get a masters degree to understand it, but I do now own it. Until I need it, it will just collect dust as part of my homebrew book collection.
 Missing a few key things May 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a really great book overall that gets down and dirty into tons of info on specific styles. The beginning goes over the basic ingredients and techniques, but it's the style chapters that really shine. Daniels has done a ton of research and complied a ton of data to break down exactly what goes into different styles of beer and gives a fantastic building block for designing your own version of the style.
I dock one star for what is missing. There are no mentions at all of the fantastic beers of Belgium, or the American "hybrid" styles like cream ale or amber ale. I love his methodical style of breaking down the beers, and I would really like to see this applied to these styles, especially the Belgians! Also there are a lot of simple grammar errors that any copy editor should have caught that get a bit distracting. I'd say time for a second edition with more beer styles!
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