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 10/26/2011 2:04 PM
 

Hey All,

Just wondering if anyone has any good all grain recipe books they have read or purchased they could recommend? I purchased the Designing Great Beers book and one with 175 recipes, sadly they are 90% Extract! Looking for a good all grain recipe book that I can use as a base reference for beers I can tweak around a bit.

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 10/26/2011 9:48 PM
 

Hey,

Jamil's Brewing Classic Styles is a great go-to book for all-grain (and extract) brewing recipes...in that book, he has award-winning recipes, with all-grain and extract options for each. I highly recommend this one. Designing Great Beers is cool in how it shows different options for things such as grain and whatnot that have gone into winning recipes, but Jamil's book kicks its little behind when it comes to "here's a great recipe - try it now."

There are many other great books out there to inspire your homebrew creations, such as Daniels' Radical Brewing, but I'd start with the first one.

Good luck!

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 10/27/2011 8:49 AM
 

Thanks for the reply! I will check that book out for sure. Hopefully I can get it on amazon. That Designing Great beers was interesting but I found when reading it, it is really easy to quickly find yourself out of your depth :). I think I might go back and read it some more after I make a few more brews. I will most defiantly check that book out your recommended!

cheers

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 10/28/2011 7:20 AM
 

Radical Brewing is actually by Randy Mosher. It is fairly light on recipes, and concentrates more on historical brewing techniques, ingredients and how everything fits together. It is a good read. A similar book is Brew Like a Monk by Stan Hieronymus. It contains a few recipes, but describes in detail how to recreate a trappist style beer. I saw a book at Chapter's last night called Brewing Better Beer by Gordon Strong which seemed pretty good, as well.

There are a million beer recipes on the internet, so personally I think a recipe book is less useful than a book which shows you how to formulate a recipe. I suggest checking out the recipe section on homebrewtalk.com - find a style you like, pick a recipe, read the feedback on the recipe, brew it up.

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 10/28/2011 4:04 PM
 

Whoops! Looks like I had Daniels on the brain from the Designing Great Beers deal...and perhaps one too many of those all-grain homebrews in my belly. Thanks for keeping me on my toes, Terry!

Cheers!

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 10/29/2011 12:15 AM
 

Clone Brews has a lot if you're into those. Home Brewer's Gold has a ton. I have doubles of both if you want.

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 10/29/2011 6:58 AM
 
Ty wrote:

Clone Brews has a lot if you're into those. Home Brewer's Gold has a ton. I have doubles of both if you want.

I have both the clone books and am disappointed in the recipes inside. I have never made one in either that came out even remotely

close to what I had ecpected it to be like.

I have this book http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Beer-Re... and while I haven't tried either recipe in it, it do look reasonably good although AA's of the hops are left out, so you're on your own there. I find that not too hard as everyones system is different and hop ultization would be different anyway given hop degrading AA's over time and storage.

What I usually do is to brew a recipe and if nesessay tweak it next time.

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 10/29/2011 9:54 AM
 

I have a few on my list: Brewing Farmhouse Ales by Phil Markowski

Brew Your Own Real Ale at Home by Wheeler and Protz

Brewing Better Beer by Gordon Strong

And an old Dave Line book called: Brewing Beers Like Those You Buy

Matty

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 10/31/2011 10:21 AM
 
Tony L wrote:
Ty wrote:

Clone Brews has a lot if you're into those. Home Brewer's Gold has a ton. I have doubles of both if you want.

I have both the clone books and am disappointed in the recipes inside. I have never made one in either that came out even remotely

close to what I had ecpected it to be like.

I have this book http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Beer-Re... and while I haven't tried either recipe in it, it do look reasonably good although AA's of the hops are left out, so you're on your own there. I find that not too hard as everyones system is different and hop ultization would be different anyway given hop degrading AA's over time and storage.

What I usually do is to brew a recipe and if nesessay tweak it next time.

I think its more to get you close to what you're after so you can tweak. Who wants an exact clone of anything anyway?

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 11/16/2011 10:09 AM
 

I picked up the clone brew book, found it at borders and it has 200 recipes. I am just looking for something for a base line which I can play around with. I don't want to make something exactly the same I just want a rough idea of how they make various beers which I can tinker with to put my own "flare" into it. Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

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