Beer Captured [Paperback]

Tess Szamatulski (Author), Mark Szamatulski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2001

Beer Captured Homebrew Recipes for 150 World Class Beers

This book contains 150 homebrew recipes for brewing clones of the great beers of the world. Recipes are included in three formats, extract, mini-mash and all grain, appealing to all level of brewers. With each recipe helpful hints are provided, along with serving glass and temperature and food suggestions. Charts provided are: mash guidelines, beer style and famous beer region mineral,water modification, beer style guidelines, hop chart and reference guide, grain, malt, sugar, adjunct, and yeast chart and reference guide. There is also a cooking with beer chapter titled "The Marriage of Food and Beer".

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...brew your own version, then cook your own dish to go with it. ...they worked hard but had great fun..." -- Michael Jackson-renouned author of numerous books about beer

"To "capture" the beers, the Szamatulski's tasted the commercial version, formulated a homebrew recipe, brewed and tweaked it to perfection." -- Kathleen James Ring, Editor, Brew Your Own magazine

Beer lovers rejoice, here's a book that captures the soul of the world's great beers... -- Charles Finkel, Merchant du Vin

About the Author

Tess and Mark Szamatulski have owned their homebrew store, Maltose Express in Monroe, CT USA for over ten years. They are authors of the best selling homebrew recipe book, CLONEBREWS Homebrew Recipes for 150 Commercial Beers (Storey Books, 1998). They also write the monthly "Beer Style" column for Brew Your Own Magazine and numerous cover features and other articles. Mark and Tess teach homebrew classes, beer tasting and appreciation classes at local colleges. Mark is a certified beer judge. Many of the beers brewed from Beer Captured have won numerous ribbons and awards, and a few have won Brewer's Cup and have been brewed by commercial breweries and brewpubs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Maltose Pr Llc; 1st edition (January 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970344252
• ISBN-13: 978-0970344250
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #47 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Drinks & Beverages > Beer

More About the Author

Not only can husband-and-wife team Tess and Mark Szamatulski create a great homebrew recipe book, CloneBrews, but they are also busy putting these same recipes into practice. They have spent years developing these recipes for the happy customers of their homebrew supply shop, Maltose Express, in Monroe, Connecticut, where they live. Not only can husband-and-wife team Tess and Mark Szamatulski create a great homebrew recipe book, CloneBrews, but they are also busy putting these same recipes into practice. They have spent years developing these recipes for the happy customers of their homebrew supply shop, Maltose Express, in Monroe, Connecticut, where they live.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book on the subject, get it., October 6, 2002

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A. Burchfield (Conway, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beer Captured (Paperback)

By the authors of "Clone Brews" Beer Captured is also a book of copies of 150 commercially produced beers from around the world. I found this book to be an improvment over the Szmatulski's first effort in that with the book's new look you get a helpful hints section on each recipe along with serving suggestions. Divided into four sections pages 1-14 tell a lot about brewing (probably not quite enough for a complete novice), followed by pages 15-164, beer recipes, section three (165-174)has recipes for foods involving beer in them someplace (some sound very tasty. Part 4, pages 175-195,contains lists of mash guidelines, water mineral and modification charts, several other charts not given in most books that should really help in brewing something drinkable.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!!, June 11, 2001

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jim mcchesney (Tucson, Az) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beer Captured (Paperback)

I can't say enough good things about this book. The title is perfect. Every Szamatulski recipe I have tried has been great (I own both of their books and have brewed a bunch of their recipes). The descriptions of each beer and the suggestions of food to go with it make my mouth water. Every recipe has instructions for all-grain, extract w/ grain, and partial mash methods of brewing. Find a recipe in the book that appeals to you, taste a store bought beer to see if you like it a lot, brew it, taste your version and the brewery's version and see how much better your's is than the "real thing". I have 16 homebrewing boks on my shelf and most of them are at least half full of recipes. "Beer Captured" is my all-time favorite. 5 stars is not enough.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEER CAPTURED - me five ribbons., May 10, 2004

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louis duh (MONROE,CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beer Captured (Paperback)

I have been brewing beer from this book for a couple of years and, to date, the recipes have earned me five home brewing ribbons - including (2) First Places. My most recent, and proudest, is a first place I earned for my version of Stovepipe Porter. This beer placed first in the Northeast Regional's of the 2004 National Homebrewing Competition.
Tess and Mark have incroporated a wealth of information into this book. The recipes are easy to follow and with some care will produce very nice beer. This book (as well as their earlier "Clonebrews") makes one thing difficult - which beer to make first??
This is a MUST HAVE for anyone interested in brewing their own beer. I can not thank Tess and Mark enough for their tireless efforts and dedication to making brewing beer so easy and rewarding!! Keep up the great work!

PROSIT !!