Customer Reviews

Homebrew Favorites: A Coast-to-Coast Collection of More Than 240 Beer and Ale Recipes

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Karl presents a comprehensive collection of ale and lager recipes. The recipes include both extract and all grain recipes at about a 50/50 porportion.

I enjoyed the book immensely as I was departing from kits and following recipes. All the recipes I made came out fantastic and I still make some of them today.

Some of the things I exceptionally, liked are:

Several recipes come from competitions. I had found these recipes came out exceptionally well.

Although one would think that the recipes from competitions would be more complex, but in fact they were not.

I used the book for extract recipes only, so I cannot comment on the all grain recipes. However speaking for the extract recipes, it is certainly a book I have read time and time again as I select what type of beer I am going to make next.

My husband has become a pretty good beer maker and not that the beer gets that much cheaper it is that you are able to make more variety and create your taste preferences. This book gave my husband a few more ideas and some other choices.

I liked this book, but I am not sure if I will ever use any of the exact recipes. It is a good source for ideas on what other people have done. It is much like when a neighborhood puts out a cookbook, but this time is is a nation's homebrew recipe book.

Not a bad recipe book, but I'd say much more valuable to extract brewers as over half are extract recipes. I've definitely gotten some good ideas from it, but was a bit disappointed there weren't more all-grain recipes. There are only a few that I have any interest in brewing. Still it serves as a good reference when developing a new recipe. Most of all it's interesting to see what recipes other homebrewers have had success with.

Although there isn't enough information presented here for the truly novice brewer(just a short formulation chapter at start of the book and the appendixes in back)I found this book to be very interesting to read. People have come up with all sorts of recipes, who'd ever have time to try them all?, and such names! The names these guys have come up with are almost better than their recipes. I especially liked the chapter on hombrews made with honey, those might be the easiest for a novice and seem to be hard to find.

Great book to explore different brews. Came to me in shape stated and quickly and safe and sound. +plus