Dave Miller's Homebrewing Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great-Tasting Beer

It's here! The only book you need to brew great-tasting beer at home.

If you can boil water and combine ingredients, you can learn the skills you need to make top-notch beer. Dave Miller's Homebrewing Guide is a simple yet complete overview for brewers of all levels. Brewmaster Dave Miller offers up-to-date advice on cutting-edge techniques and successfully guides you through the entire brewing process.

 

In this comprehensive guide to homebrewing, Miller clearly explains the best techniques for every step of the entire brewing process. Clear enough for the novice but thorough enough to earn a home in the libraries of brewmasters, this is the essential volume on brewing great-tasting beer at home.

 

Homebrew guru Dave Miller draws on his 20 years of experience and the latest information to guide beginners and experienced brewers through the entire brewing process. Includes recipes for a variety of beer styles, a glossary of important terms, useful conversion tables, and a suggested reading list of other helpful beer books.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-349) and index.

Author and brewing expert Dave Miller has been a Brewmaster at the St. Louis Brewing Company and at the Blackstone Restaurant and Brewery in Nashville, Tennessee. Beside writing Storey's Brewing the World's Great Beers, The Complete Handbook of Home Brewing and Dave Miller's Homebrewing Guide, he has also written Home Brewing for Americans and Continental Pilsener. His articles have appeared in Zymurgy magazine and he has worked on the annual book, Beer and Brewing, which showcases the transcripts of talks from the National Homebrew Conference. Dave is also a Certified Beer Judge, a troubleshooting columnist for Brewing Techniques, and a frequent speaker at homebrewing conferences. He has won the Home Brewer of the Year award at the National Homebrew Competition. Married and the father of five children, Dave is a graduate of the Siebel Institute of Brewing Technology and resides in Tennessee.

1 Introduction

2 How Beer Is Made

3 Getting Started in Homebrewing

4 Malts, Adjuncts, and Sugars

5 Water and Water Treatment

6 Mash Methods - An Overview

7 Equipment for Wort Production

8 What Happens in the Mash Tun?

9 Mashing and Lautering

10 Hops

11 Kettles, Wort Coolers, and Other Equipment

12 What Happens in the Kettle and Wort Cooler?

13 Boiling, Trub Separation, and Cooling

14 Yeast

15 Yeast Propagation and Maintenance

16 Fermentation Methods

17 Fermentation and Lagering Equipment

18 What Happens during Fermentation?

19 Wort Aeration and Pitching

20 Running the Fermentation

21 Maturation and Lagering

22 Beer Clarification

23 Clarifiers, Filters, and Filtration Equipment

24 Clarification and Filtration Techniques

25 Carbonation

26 Beer Carbonation Methods

27 Bottle- and Cask-Conditioned Beers

28 Draft Beer Equipment

29 Draft System Design and Operation

30 Bottled Beer and Bottling

31 Cleaning and Sanitation

32 Cleaners, Sanitizers, and Cleaning Equipment

33 Cleaning and Sanitizing Procedures

34 Beer Evaluation

35 Troubleshooting

36 Beer Styles

37 Recipe Formulation

38 Recipes

Metric Conversions

Sources

Glossary

Annotated Bibliography

Index