Beer varieties from around the world, not quite for novice

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	• Clone Brews: Homebrew Recipes for 150 Commercial Beers Tess Szamatulski, Mark Szamatulski Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent recipe book

This book is primarily a recipe book, though it does contain some useful information (such as reculturing yeast from bottles) in the ten pages devoted to the brewing process. The recipes comprise the bulk of the book and are divided by region, then country of origin. All of the recipes are approximations of commercial beers (top-notch ones, though), so don't look for micro-brews or THE exact recipe here. That being said, each recipe includes a brief paragraph about the beer, step-by-step brewing instructions (using malt syrup), and a side-bar containing mini-mash and all-grain alternate brewing instructions. Finally, this book contains a useful appendix that includes a chart of beer characteristics, a hop chart describing various hops, charts describing various grains and sugars, and a beer style index. This appendix makes it relatively easy to figure what grains to buy for which beer style, and vice versa.

Overall, I highly recommend this book as a companion to one that covers more of the brewing process and equipment, such as William Moore's Home Beermaking.

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Great selection of clone recipes

This book has quite a wide range of recipes for you to use. I've made one of the batches, and it didn't turn out bad at all. In fact, I think it's pretty close to what it should be. If you want to try and clone a few beers, I would recommend this book. The only problem you might run into is your local homebrew store may not have all the ingredients you need.

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Greate Beer Recipe Book

It's true that this book is not for someone making their first batch of beer. But if you have made half a dozen or more, this book is a great recipe book. It focuses on homebrewing different brews from around the world. The recipes include a malt version, mini mash version as well as all grain. If you are trying to make a certain beer, this book will definitely give you a place to start.

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Beer varieties from around the world, not quite for novice

While not quite as good as their later book "Beer Captured", I'd give this book about 31/2 stars for the amount of information it contains (the Szamatulski's 2nd book is even more detailed hence the lower rating). You get a variety of recipes from all over the world including countries you might not expect to even allow alcohol. I've never brewed beer but I'd say that this book would do pretty well for extract, mini mash or all grain method brewers who have a good idea of what they're doing. While there is some introductory information and some more in the appendices I really don't think the total novice(like me) should rely on this book alone. How close are the cloned recipes?, I don't know but expect that most of us couldn't tell the difference.

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Like a kid in candy store

When I got this book I was like a kid in candy store... so many recipes that I want to try, and so little time. I have come to understand that there is no shortage of beer recipes in the world of home brewing. Yet, I still feel this book is worth it. It shows you what you can do with extracts and it gives you the all grain recipes as well. I think there is much to be learned from this one, one cloning and on creating your own recipes.

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