Brew Books - What's On Your Shelf??

[Big_Eight]

Besides the books in the photos I have a Brew Your Own Magazine subscription I really enjoy. Happy brewing folks!

Edit: Added a picture of my most recent Brew Your Own Magazine

Edit: This issue isn't in print anymore you may be able to find it on ebay but it has recipes for all sorts of styles for all grain and extract. Forgot about this one it's great.

 

[Stevieboy]

No beer books for me - but about 20 odd wine books - vintage recipes, atlases, vine growing, wine regions, companions, auto biogs etc Oz Clarke, Jancis Robinson, Hugh Johnson - you name it..

 

[An Ankoù]

The Australian book looks very interesting. I'll have a look for that one.
As it happens, I'm just tidying up my bookshelves so I'll see what I've got.

 

[DavidHatton]

Few more upstairs,

 

[Cwrw666]

I also have the Durden Park, Pattinson and Garshol books.

I also have `Home made Country Wines, Beer, Mead and Metheglin: Tried and tested recipes collected by the Farmers Weekly' which contains some truly horrific stuff! 1967 edition but first printed in 1955.
And Greg Hughes of course, content of which is rather less horrific.

 

[Big_Eight]

The Australian book looks very interesting. I'll have a look for that one.
As it happens, I'm just tidying up my bookshelves so I'll see what I've got.

That is the most recent November issue. If you go to the brew your own site you can buy single issues and that issue should be available.

Also that's great let's see what you've got.

 

[Sadfield]

The Lars Garshol book is excellent, everything I want in a brewing book, a bit like Brew Like A Monk and Secrets of the Master Brewer, giving the history and structure of a style in a way that inspires me to create beers in the spirit of those brewers, rather than a collection of recipes to follow.

Missing the odd loanee....

EDIT: Just added Durden Park to the collection.

 

[Big_Eight]

The Lars Garshol book is excellent, everything I want in a brewing book, a bit like Brew Like A Monk and Secrets of the Master Brewer, giving the history and structure of a style in a way that inspires me to create beers in the spirit of those brewers, rather than a collection of recipes to follow.

Missing the odd loanee....
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EDIT: Just added Durden Park to the collection.

I see you have the yeast, malt, hop, and water books! I've been meaning to grab those!

 

[Broken Toe]

I would recommend most of these. Some I would not. But radical brewing is a really good read as is being great beers, lots of lovely graphs and tables in that one.

 

[Big_Eight]

View attachment 56831I would recommend most of these. Some I would not. But radical brewing is a really good read as is being great beers, lots of lovely graphs and tables in that one.

I've heard that from a few folks I may have to take the plunge in to radical brewing!

 

[Rodcx500z]

I have this one and it is very good

 

[Big_Eight]

Also if you think I could benefit from a book you've read regarding British beer definitely let me know. I want to get as much info as I can on British styles and their history.

 

[YeastFace]

I'm yet to unpack mine from the move but I have:

Brew Like A Monk - Stan Hieronymus
American Sour Beers - Michael Tonsmeire
Farmhouse Ales - Phil Markowski
The Brewers Apprentice - Greg Koch & Matt Allyn
Brewing Stouts & Porters - Terry Foster
Home Brew Beer - Greg Hughes
Mikkeller's Book of Beer - Mikkell Borg Bjergsø
The Complete Homebrew Handbook - Robin Alway

And the following eBooks:
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing - Charlie Papazian
North American Clone Brews - Scott R. Russell
CloneBrews - Tess & Mark Szmatulski

I need to get a copy of the Durden Park book now it's for sale again.

 

[An Ankoù]

That is the most recent November issue. If you go to the brew your own site you can buy single issues and that issue should be available.

Also that's great let's see what you've got.

Here we are then: the books in current use- mainly recipes- and the reference section upstairs.

 

[Big_Eight]

What books would you folks recommend from the Graham Wheeler department? From the looks of it around the forum his books look to be pretty iconic.

 

[Moe]

I’ve just downloaded the Durden park book. I’d never heard of it until this thread. Looks good

 

[Disildor]

Nice collections!
It would be interesting to know which one(s) you would recommend the most or which one(s) had the biggest impact on your brewing (either on the final product or the brewing process/equipment/recipe making) :)

 

[Big_Eight]

Nice collections!
It would be interesting to know which one(s) you would recommend the most or which one(s) had the biggest impact on your brewing (either on the final product or the brewing process/equipment/recipe making) :)

For me it's John Palmer's 'How to Brew' it contains just about everything you need to know about the brewing process as well as the theory and math behind it. For example using his book was able to build my own hop IBU calculator (tinseth).

Recently I've found Ron Pattinson's 'Homebrewers Guide to Vintage Beer' very helpful in my pursuit of British history and styles (also his Barclay Perkins blog).

 

[Sadfield]

Nice collections!
It would be interesting to know which one(s) you would recommend the most or which one(s) had the biggest impact on your brewing (either on the final product or the brewing process/equipment/recipe making) :)

Mastering Homebrew by Randy Mosher. His philosophy on viewing brewing creatively, like art, visualising about how you want the end product to look, taste and smell, then work back from their to formulate a recipe, really struck a chord with me. The ingredients, particularly malt section, is a really handy quick reference.

 

[Big_Eight]

Mastering Homebrew by Randy Mosher. His philosophy on viewing brewing creatively, like art, visualising about how you want the end product to look, taste and smell, then work back from their to formulate a recipe, really struck a chord with me. The ingredients, particularly malt section, is a really handy quick reference.

I've heard similar statements from a lot of folks over the years. I need to add that book to my collection.