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# Modern Homebrew Recipes: Exploring Styles and Contemporary Techniques

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Three-time Ninkasi Award winner, Gordon Strong has been a towering presence in the homebrewing community for many years. Now this Grandmaster Beer Judge invites you on a guided tour through over 100 of his own as-brewed recipes. While discussing the fundamentals of homebrewing, the author also invites you to develop your own style, with tips on recipe formulation and ingredients substitutions. In the initial chapters, Strong cover the basics of brewing, summarizing a variety of processes relating to water adjustment, mashing, and hopping. The author concisely and clearly lays out techniques like infusion mashing, step infusion, decoction, cereal mashes, and hybrid mash schedules. Get the rundown on adding hops in the boil, first wort hopping, hop bursting, whirlpool and steeping, hopbacks, and dry hopping. Learn the basics of recipe design and how to think about style recipe profiles; know the intensity of your ingredients and what contributes to a balanced recipe and how that might differ between styles—do you know what makes a balanced IPA versus a lambic? Make intelligent substitutions with ingredients you have and become comfortable scaling recipes, accounting for volume losses, mash efficiencies, and differences in hop utilization. The recipes themselves are tried and tested, provided by the author as he has brewed them, including specific advice and sensory profiles, plus insights into the creative process behind each recipe. There are myriad IPAs and everyday styles for easy drinking, such as pale ale, blonde ale, wheat beer, altbier, Kolsch, and brown and amber ales. Classic and modern lager recipes include Vienna, dunkel, Maibock, Oktoberfest, bock, and schwarzbier. Dark beers are plentiful, with dark milds, porters, and stouts, making a nod to both American and classic English versions. Stronger fare is on offer with barleywine, strong ales, and winter warmers; lovers of Belgian beer will also find an eclectic selection of traditional recipes, as well as some saisons and biere de garde. For when the creative juices are really flowing, the author includes a collection of experimental and historical recipes that may not find a place in any set style—pale mild or dubbel American brown ale, anyone?—but are delicious nonetheless.

Review: Excellent book for your brewing library - Excellent book for your brewing library. I really like this book. The info is solid and the recipes are terrific. I have already brewed several recipes from this book and they have all been outstanding. I do have a three vessel electric herms rig, so I can maintain mash temps, step mashes, etc. and do hop stands and whirlpool, so I can brew the recipes like they were intended to be brewed. This is also a great reference when you want to brew a beer to a specific style, or country, and how you can push the limits of the style and make it your own, but still brew the beer you intended to brew. I can't say enough about this book and Gordon's first book, "Brewing Better Beer" as both books are totally worth owning. I know I have learned many things from Gordon and this book has helped me gain knowledge and become a better brewer. That "Export Irish Red Ale" came out outstanding and everyone requests that one all the time. The "English Mild", "London Porter", (with brown malt) all the way through to the "Munich Dunkel" and "Munich Helles" Lagers, and even the "Pumpkin Ale" (which he adds pumpkin to the boil and the mash) are beautifully balanced beers. Not one bad recipe so far! So I can really recommend this book to any brewer who wants to expand his knowledge of brewing to style or to add to his recipe choices.
Review: An exploration of styles. Exactly what it sets out to do - I have a few homebrew books already - one to cover the essentials, one of the clone recipe books and some style-specific tomes on more specific kinds of beer. I'm now a confident all-grain brewer, recently upgraded my equipment and I'm ready to take on the world. So I bought this book. Of all the books I've bought, this is my favorite. I love it because it's opinionated. It's one thing to be presented with a recipe and some numbers in the abstract; it's another to be presented with background on how the recipe was arrived at, why certain techniques are recommended and what you should expect from it. But to have the latter presented in the context of the author's vast experience and general approaches is invaluable. It's like having the opportunity to sit down with a mentor and watch them work. I've only brewed one recipe from the book so far - the "Landlord Tribute" cask ale. As a Brit with years of disappointing bitters under my belt, I have to say I was skeptical. However, it's turned out beautifully. This is the book I will keep coming back to over the next year as I expand my styles. As many others have said, this isn't a book for beginners and given its opinionated nature, it requires a little interpretation. But I have no gripes about that, particularly given the lengths the author goes to in helping educate you on how recipes can and should be interpreted.

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| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #916,327 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #248 in Beer (Books) #865 in Homebrewing, Distilling & Wine Making #884 in Food Science (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 163 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book for your brewing library
*by J***V on February 22, 2018*

Excellent book for your brewing library. I really like this book. The info is solid and the recipes are terrific. I have already brewed several recipes from this book and they have all been outstanding. I do have a three vessel electric herms rig, so I can maintain mash temps, step mashes, etc. and do hop stands and whirlpool, so I can brew the recipes like they were intended to be brewed. This is also a great reference when you want to brew a beer to a specific style, or country, and how you can push the limits of the style and make it your own, but still brew the beer you intended to brew. I can't say enough about this book and Gordon's first book, "Brewing Better Beer" as both books are totally worth owning. I know I have learned many things from Gordon and this book has helped me gain knowledge and become a better brewer. That "Export Irish Red Ale" came out outstanding and everyone requests that one all the time. The "English Mild", "London Porter", (with brown malt) all the way through to the "Munich Dunkel" and "Munich Helles" Lagers, and even the "Pumpkin Ale" (which he adds pumpkin to the boil and the mash) are beautifully balanced beers. Not one bad recipe so far! So I can really recommend this book to any brewer who wants to expand his knowledge of brewing to style or to add to his recipe choices.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An exploration of styles. Exactly what it sets out to do
*by M***E on August 6, 2020*

I have a few homebrew books already - one to cover the essentials, one of the clone recipe books and some style-specific tomes on more specific kinds of beer. I'm now a confident all-grain brewer, recently upgraded my equipment and I'm ready to take on the world. So I bought this book. Of all the books I've bought, this is my favorite. I love it because it's opinionated. It's one thing to be presented with a recipe and some numbers in the abstract; it's another to be presented with background on how the recipe was arrived at, why certain techniques are recommended and what you should expect from it. But to have the latter presented in the context of the author's vast experience and general approaches is invaluable. It's like having the opportunity to sit down with a mentor and watch them work. I've only brewed one recipe from the book so far - the "Landlord Tribute" cask ale. As a Brit with years of disappointing bitters under my belt, I have to say I was skeptical. However, it's turned out beautifully. This is the book I will keep coming back to over the next year as I expand my styles. As many others have said, this isn't a book for beginners and given its opinionated nature, it requires a little interpretation. But I have no gripes about that, particularly given the lengths the author goes to in helping educate you on how recipes can and should be interpreted.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book, one minor grievance.
*by U***R on September 22, 2017*

I really liked how he approached the organization of this book. Perhaps it's a little non-traditional in a few ways, like recipe categories (they range from the straight-forward styles like IPA to "Everyday beers" in which he includes a mix of Blonde ales, Wheat, Kolsch and bitters). I think he particularly does a great job of: 1) explaining a few somewhat non-traditional techniques that he likes to use. He mashes his darker grains only at vorlauf, and discusses hop additions at different times of the cycle including first wort hopping and some additions during a post-boil hop stand. You might already do some of this, or already heard of these approaches, but he explains these techniques well. 2) going through different approaches to the same style. He has several styles that he attacks from different recipe angles and describes why he did it and what the outcome should be. I really appreciate that about this book - which makes it a great read as you think about your own recipe formulation. My biggest pet peave is that he leaves out some basic information on his ingredients that I appreciate in recipe:. Lovibond of grains, % fermentables, and IBU contributions from his hop additions to name the biggest omissions. I know I can Google this or calculate it with my software (and estimate in my head and get really close) but as I jump from recipe-to-recipe within a style I'd like that information provided. It's nitpicking, but that's the only reason I didn't give it 5-stars. Don't let this minor detail keep you from buying the book, it's great and well worth the time and money. Highly recommended.

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