Designing Great Beers The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles

by Daniels, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780937381502
• ISBN10: 0937381500
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-26
• Publisher: Brewers Pubns

Summary

Formulas, ingredients, historical and modern day brewing practices, all these details and more are covered in Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles. Drawing on information from old brewing records, books, contemporary beer analyses, and hundreds of award-winning recipes, author Ray Daniels provides a wealth of data on the current and historical brewing techniques and ingredients for fourteen of the world's most popular ale and lager styles. Ray also includes brewing calculations for planning and adjusting brews as well a thorough examination of primary brewing ingredients.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi	(1)
List of Tables	vii	(6)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
PART ONE	7	(116)
1. Six Steps to Successful Beer	7	(2)
2. Charting a Course	9	(2)
3. Malt Extracts	11	(8)
4. Flavor and Aroma from Fermentables	19	(9)
5. Calculating the Malt Bill	28	(6)
6. Hitting Target Gravity	34	(6)
7. Beer Color	40	(23)
8. Water	63	(9)
9. Using Hops and Hop Bitterness	72	(19)
10. Flavor and Aroma Hops	91	(16)
11. Hop Variety Characteristics	107	(4)
12. Yeast and Fermentation	111	(12)
PART TWO	123	(228)
13. Introduction to Part Two: The Style Chapters	123	(4)
14. The Barley Ales of Germany	127	(14)
15. Barley Wine	141	(11)
16. Bitters and Pale Ales	152	(23)
17. Bock Beer	175	(16)
18. California Common	191	(12)
19. Fruit Beer	203	(12)
20. Mild and Brown Ales	215	(14)
21. Old Ale	229	(14)
22. Pilsener and Other Pale Lagers	243	(20)
23. Porter	263	(20)
24. Scottish and Scotch Ales	283	(18)
25. Stout	301	(20)
26. Vienna, Marzen, and Oktoberfest	321	(17)
27. Wheat Beers	338	(13)
Appendix 1: Essential Brewing Techniques	351	(3)
Appendix 2: Calculating Potential Extract from Malt Analysis	354	(2)
Glossary	356	(9)
References	365	(17)
About the Author	382	(1)
Index	383