Beginners can learn how easy and inexpensive it is to brew beer at home. From choosing the equipment and ingredients, to preparing, fermenting, and aging, to bottling and serving. 137,000 copies in print.
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Think of it -- beer at 12-20 cents a bottle, and the best beer you've ever tasted, tailored to the exact quirk of your tongue. This is the promise of M.R. Reese. And he delivers on that promise. Follow his instructions, then flip the cap off a bottle of your own brewing and taste -- you'll never want to go back to those store-bought varieties.
It's easy, too. Three hours at the most for five gallons of beer. The hardest part, Reese writes, is waiting four to six weeks for the beer to reach perfection.
You only need a few items of equipment. Some you'll have in your kitchen; others are inexpensive and available in many stores.
With the nineteen recipes you can brew top-grade beer and ale -- American, Canadian, or European style, from light summer beers to the heavier Irish stout -- and learn to vary recipes to get exactly the pleasing taste that you want.
M.R. Reese, member of a brewing family from before Prohibition days, tells the secrets of brewing he's learned in years of making his own favorites.
About the Author
It comes as no surprise that author M. R. Reese knows how to brew it best as noted in his Storey book, Better Beer & How to Brew It. He comes from a family that has been brewing since before the Prohibition days, and he has acquired many savory secrets that have been passed down through his family over the years, through conducting extensive homebrewing research, and through experimenting with his own recipes. In 1970, M. R. founded and operated the first store in the Washington D.C. area that carried supplies for home winemakers and brewers. He sold the business in 1978. M. R. lives with his wife, Dottie, and has three daughters and five grandchildren.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Better Beer & How to Brew It,
By Mr. Shane A. Saylor (Chantilly, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Better Beer & How to Brew It (Paperback)
This book by M.R. Reese gives a very elementary approach to homebrewing. While it supplies the reader with recipes, the book only gives detailed instructions only once. And the author expects the reader to flip back to the page [with the instructions] each time. Plus the instructions for making the brew are very standard or generic. Yet as any home brewer may well tell you that each beer with different ingredients require the brewer to alter the direction ever so slightly. Each recipe is different, requiring different instructions.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Average information, not very good recipes,
By A Customer
This review is from: Better Beer & How to Brew It (Paperback)
The information in this book is OK for the beginner, but out of date, and the recipes are not very good. Many call for the use of several cups of corn sugar in the fermentation and nowhere near enough hops during the boil. The resulting beer tasted like alcoholic, carbonated syrup. You can get all of this beginner information for free on the internet. There are so many other good books out there on brewing that I would avoid this one.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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better beer,
This review is from: Better Beer & How to Brew It (Paperback)
i gained basic understanding and knowledge on how to brew beer from this book and also learned what i did wrong in previous batched. very helpful and recommend it to any starting out home brewer.
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