CONTENTS
Italics indicate a recipe
Introduction
About Our Process
What We’ll Discover
Keeping the Experiment Alive
Chapter 1: The Basics
Getting Started
A Brew Day with the Experimentalists
Drew and Denny’s Most Important Tips
Chapter 2: Recipe Design
A Lesson in Unsimplicity with Drew
Brewing SMaSH-Style with Drew
Double Trouble DIPA
California Magnum Blonde
SMaSH The Pils
The Queen’s Diamonds Barleywine
Brewing on the Ones with Drew
Singular Quad
Boswell’s oat beer
Double Trouble Simplified
Tying It All Together with Drew
The Recipe Road Map with Denny
Chris Colby on Recipe Design
White Stout
Chapter 3: Splitting Batches
Mashing
Boiling and Chilling
Fermenting
Chapter 4: Equipment Nerdery
Our Basic Build-Out
Chilling Tips and Tricks
Cheap ’n’ Easy Fermentation Temperature Control
Packaging and Serving with Style
The Digital Revolution
Chapter 5: Off-the-Wall Techniques
Flavor Shots
Force Injection of Flavors
One Night In Tijuana
Canned Starters
Brewer’s Invert Sugar
Faking a Cask
Ice Ice Baby (Eisbier)
World Wide Doppelbock
Dry Hops in the Bottle (or Keg)
Brettanomyces at Bottling
Cosmopolitan Trout
Blending Multiple Beer Styles
Using Carbonated Water to Make Light Beer
Measuring Dissolved Oxygen
Yeast Cell Counting
Soda Mmm Pop
Two Cents Plain
Dr. Drew’s Blueberry Ginger Rejuvenating Tonic
Bluebier
Watermelon Mint Sparkling Fresca
Spent Grain Bread
Spent Grain Blond
Chapter 6: Favorite Experimental Styles
American Wheat
Humdrum Wheat
Chile Wheat
American IPA
IPA Variations
Basic IPA
Hops Across the Water Belgo-American IPA
Belgian Style Golden / Tripel
Westcoastmalle Tripel
Caramelized Honey Pepper Tripel
Mild
Schoolhouse Tafelbier
Express Mild
Curried Oat Mild
American Robust Porter
Why Not Rye Porter
Base Imperial Porter
Saison
Saison Expérimental
Citra Saison
Chapter 7: Conventional Brewing Ingredients
Grains
Sugars
Hops
Yeast
Water
Chapter 8: Experimental Ingredients
Get Your Produce On
Mean Green Beer
Raid the Spice Cabinet
Pepper Pile Pale Ale
Hop Genever Oat Ale
Bratty Brat Beer
Saison Guacamole
Coffee or Beer? Why Not Both?
The Not-So-Boring World of Vanilla
Tahitian Bliss Tripel
Beer and the Chocolate Factory
Quattro Crazy
Buzz Buzz Goes the Beer
Wee Shroomy
Because I’m a Fun Guy with Denny
Brewing with Meat
Pork Soda
Bacon Helles
Digby’s Cock-Ale, Modernized
Peanut Butter
Mary Meet Jane
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Candy Is Dandy, But Liquor …
Chapter 9: Evaluating Your Experiments
How to Taste a Beer
Finding Guinea Pigs…er…Tasting Panelists
Types of Testing
Testing in Action
Conclusion
Chapter 10: The Experiments
Experiments for the Mash
Experiments for the Boil
Fermenter Experiments
Yeast Experiments
Wort Preparation Experiments
Fermentation Experiments
Pre-packaging Experiments
Packaging Experiments
Aging Experiments
Serving Experiments
Acknowledgements
Resources
Works Cited
About the Authors
Index