Reviews

Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles by Ray Daniels

johngolden's review against another edition

5.0

This is an essential book for all homebrewers. It deconstructs all styles of beer providing the amounts of grains and hops for each style.

andreiz's review

4.0

If you are into brewing beer, this book is for you. However, it's probably best to read some other introductory text first. It can be a rough read at times, full of charts, figures, numbers, and statistics. The first part of the book covers understanding, calculating, and controlling beer gravity, color, hop usage, malt selection, etc. The second part is dedicated to a range of beer styles, their history and development, and formulations based on commercial and NHC examples. I enjoyed reading the historical parts a lot. Curiously, the book does not mention Belgian styles at all.

mlindner's review

3.0

I'm marking this as read after-the-fact, calling it last year. Then weeding it.

This is a pretty good book but it is extremely dated regarding techniques and is especially limited in recipe formulation as the availability of grains and other ingredients is far larger today.