Bavarian Lager: Beerhall Helles History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style) [Paperback]

Horst D. Dornbusch (Author)

Book Description

Series: Classic Beer Style | Publication Date: April 28, 2000

Helles was first created in Munich n 1894, it is perhaps the most delicate beer imaginable.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Brewers Publications (April 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093738173X
• ISBN-13: 978-0937381731
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #31 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Drinks & Beverages > Beer
  • #36 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Gastronomy > History

More About the Author

Horst Dornbusch is a well-known consultant in the international brewing industry as well as a leading author and speaker about beer. He writes in English and German and has contributed hundreds of articles to North American and European periodicals for beer lovers and brewing professionals alike. Horst Dornbusch is the Associate Editor of the The Oxford Companion to Beer (Sept. 2011) and the author of The Ultimate Almanac of World Beer Recipes (2010), Bavarian Helles (2000), Altbier (1999), PROST! The Story of German Beer (1997), and a forthcoming beer recipe book for homebrewers in German (Sept. 2012). He is interviewed frequently on the history, styles, technology, and marketing of beer by broadcast media from Austrian TV to the BBC, New Zealand National Radio, and NPR, and has been the script consultant to two Discovery Channel programs. In the 1990s, he founded an award-winning microbrewery in Massachusetts. Before he made a career change to the world of beer, he worked for two decades as a writer, editor, and publications manager at The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Reader's Digest, and Siemens Medical Electronics. He was born and raised in Germany, was a Fulbright Scholar, and holds a B.A. from Reed College and an M.A. from Brandeis University.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do you like german beer?, February 7, 2004

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theoriginalsubguy (Washington State) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bavarian Lager: Beerhall Helles History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style) (Paperback)

Do you like german beer? If you do, get this book. This is the recipe key for that famous blond beer served in Bavaria. If you like the red beer, then get the book on octoberfest beer (marzen). This book will help you formulate a tasty, balanced, perfectly malty brew that is delightful. Fifty percent of my brews are helles beers, and once you get them right, I think yours may be too.

For the most authentic taste, I recommend incorporating decoction mashing. This subject is not covered in this text, but is in a book titled: NEW BREWING LAGER BEER.

Don't forget to drink to the foam (safely) and dance to merry music with a partner! Have fun. Auf Wiedersehen.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite book in this series., March 18, 2004

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Thomas Wilk (Livonia, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bavarian Lager: Beerhall Helles History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style) (Paperback)

The various books in the Classic Beer Style series are as mixed of a bag as their subjects. While each makes an effort to provide a bit of a history lesson, some technical background and a few recipes for the homebrewer, each author seems to have been pretty much left to work out the details. As a result, some examples got lost by being muddled with too much history, too many technical details or recipes that are at the extremes of the complexity scale.

Dornbusch managed to get a great balance of the three in this book, and he presents it in a style that shows that he downright enjoys his subject. The result is a book that, from a homebrewer's standpoint, is actually fun to read. But most importantly, you can make some pretty good brews from his recipes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tool, February 5, 2011

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TONINO - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bavarian Lager: Beerhall Helles History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style) (Paperback)

Excellent tool for making even best brews from now forward.
Clear explanations, a bit of history, and a deep knowledge on the process provide the beginner and the initiated resources enough to experiment this style so lovely described by the author.
The challenge is now to achieve something at least similar to what has been presented to us. Its good explanations encourages us to think that it's worth a try.
Sorry for my English.