Contents

Foreword

Beer Is My Business and I’m Late for Work

Introduction

The Golden Rule

The Homebrewer’s Companion

Choosing and Using Ingredients: Simple Improvements

An Important reminder

Boiling

Your stove

Sugar and kit instructions

Changing your yeast

Enhancing your yeast’s performance

German styles, English styles, American styles. Getting to yes

Don’t blame it on the malt

Improve your water. Improve your beer

Kit beers: Simple finesse with hops

Siphoning sense

Do you have a problem?

Sanitizing contaminators

Wash your hands

Cheap sanitation

Taste it

Ingredients, Process and Equipment—and Beer!

Malt

Malt extract

Does freshness really make a difference?

Knowledge is yeast? Yeast is knowledge?

Knowledgeable brewing

The well-attenuated body

Recipe conversions

Grain malts

Using specialty malts without mashing

The essential kernel: All about malt

A key to understanding malt

Specialty malt frenzy

Color

Predicting extract and original gravity

Storage of malt

Malt table

Fermentable Adjuncts

Beer and allergies

Fermentable Grain Adjuncts Extract Table

Malting your own grains: A basic procedure for survival

Other Fermentable Adjuncts Extract Table

Fruits, herbs, spices, roots and the galaxy

Miscellaneous odds and ends

Hops

Bed hopping

Hop variety: It does matter

Hop anatomy. Warning: Tis may get ugly

Hop oils: Comparison of Typical Cohumulone, Myrcene, Humulene Proportions in Aroma and Bitter Varieties of Hops

Love and hate to the bitter end

IBU, BU, AAU, HBU. What’s going on here?

Lupomaniacs and freshly picked hops

Bitterness, Flavor and Aroma

Finesse, flavor and aroma

Dry hopping

Hop madness. Hmmmm

Extract brewers’ tip

Storage of hops

Additional references

Water

Chlorine, chlorine, nastiest stuff you might have ever seen

Nitrates and nitrites

Minerals matter!

Primary ions

Secondary ions

Mineral salts

Mineral Table

Getting it! pH, alkalinity and hardness

Minerals and beer styles

Approximate Ionic Concentrations of Classic Brewing Waters

Yeast

Names and strains

Dried and liquid yeasts

Reusing yeast sediment

Culturing dormant yeast in suspension

Yeast Types Available

Culturing and storing

Other Reasons to Propagate Yeast

Kraeusening

Charging extended lager

Out with one and in with another

Yeast profiling

Truly Strange Yeasts

Brettanomyces

“Schizo” yeast

More indigenous yeast

And did you ever notice

Additional references

Making Beer: Equipment and Process

Equipment

The process

An outline of the beermaking process

Malting Barley

Milling: Crushing Your Grains

Mashing

Enzyme Activity During the Mashing Process

Phytase and the acid rest

Protease, peptidase and the protein rest

Beta glucanase and gums

Diastase and making sugars

Types of Mashing Procedures

The one-step infusion mash and chart

Two- or three-step infusion mash and chart

Two- or three-step decoction mass and charts

Optimizing? What are we talking about here?

Mashing Vessel—the Mash-tun

The mash-tun/brewpot

The coolers

Plastic buckets

Mash tips

Lautering and Sparging

Temperature

Foundation

Filter bed

Collecting the extract

Begin sparging

When to stop

Some Practical Considerations

Measuring the runoff

How fast the runoff?

Stuck runoff

How much sparge water?

Sparging and Lautering Equipment—Your System

Plastic bucket systems

Fitting the picnic cooler

Stainless steel lauter-tuns

Boiling the Wort

Extracting hop bitterness

Protein coagulation

Evaporation of wort

Boilovers

Catch the Heat—Boiling Equipment

Stove-top boiling, gas and electric

Outdoor propane cookers

Immersion heaters

Brewing Kettles

Enameled brewpots

Stainless steel

Copper

Aluminum and other metals

Immersion-type electric kettles

Trub and Hop Removal

Removing hops

Trub and its removal

How much trub?

Trub: Its influence on fermentation and flavor

Trub: How to remove it

Trub, whirlpools and equipment

When to go the distance

Transferring Extract and Wort

Gravity and pumps

Spigots and valves

The simple hose

Chilling Effects: Cooling Your Wort

The principles of wort chilling: Why and how

The principles of heat exchange

Equipment and Techniques for Extract and Mash Extract Homebrewers

Chilling concentrated worts

Full wort boils: Extract and all-grain brewing

Pot-immersion method

Using ice

Coil immersion

Counterflow systems

Fermentation

Lager and ale

Before yeast metabolism begins

Choosing the yeast strain

Adequate yeast

Aeration

Yeast Metabolism and Fermentation

Single-stage fermentation or two-stage fermentation: Which is best? Again, it all depends

Stuck fermentation

Postfermentation

Fermentation Equipment for the Homebrewer

Aerators

Fermenters

The Burton Union System

Controlling Fermentation and Lagering Temperature

Keeping it warm

Keeping it cool

Suck-back and Fermentation Locks

Transferring Beer from Here to There

Carbonation, Conditioning and other Gaseous Matters

Primers

Batch vs. bottle priming

Sugars for Priming

Flat beer?

“Artificial” carbonation

Volumes of Carbon Dioxide

The Zen of bottling

Bottles and Bottling Equipment

Bottle color

Sizes, shapes and life-style

Plastic

Swing tops

Bottlecaps

Corks

Bottlecappers

Kegging and Draft Equipment

Some safety and quality-assurance considerations

Sediment-free draft beer

“On draft”—dispensing beer

At the tap

What about that creamy Guinness head?

What about the long-lasting, dense head of German draft Pilsener?

Clear Beer with Filtration

Filtration equipment

Filtration Ratings

Measuring Devices

Hydrometers

Hydrometer Correction

Thermometers

Charismatic spoons and dipsticks

Color

The Color Intensity Curve

Beer Style Guidelines

Definition of terms

Outline of Beer Styles

Bibliography of Resources for Beer Style Guidelines

Beer Recipes

Table of Recipes

A few assumptions

Hop Utilization

Ales

Pale ales

Brown ales

Belgian ales

Belgian Lambic

Porters

Stouts

Barley wines

German ales

Specialty and unusual brews

Ancient specialties

Lagers

Light-bodied lagers

German- and Czechoslovakian-style Pilsener

Oktoberfest and Vienna lagers

German Rauchbier

Münchner light

Münchner dunkel

Bocks and doppelbocks

Oh, Honey! Let It Be Mead

Guidelines For Formulating Recipes for Different Types of Mead

Honey and Water: Predicting Original Gravity

Mead Recipes

Sparkling mead

Still mead

Root Beer

Nonalcoholic Beers: How Are They Made?

Malta

Classic Beer Styles from Around the World

Indigenous beers and fermented beverages of the Americas

Asia

Africa

Oceania

Europe

The afterworld

Beer Worlds: Origin of Species and the Big Bang Theory

Beer Evaluation: Is It Any Good?

Beer character: The dynamics of change

Beer character descriptors

Why evaluate beer?

Six senses for evaluation

Some Factors Influencing the Character of Beer

Ingredients

Process

Equipment

Handling

Training camp!

Troubleshooter’s Chart

Beer Aroma/Flavor Recognition

Savor the Flavor—Responsibly

Know Your Limit

Beer and Nutrition

One 12-oz. serving of beer

Allergies and beer

Gone With the Wind

Flatulence and beer

Beer and Food

A few words about cooking with beer

Choosing beer types to accompany a meal

An eight-course banquet

 

Bibliography of Resources

Books

Periodicals

Other Literature (pamphlets, brochures, etc.)

Individuals, Associations, Institutes and Businesses

Additional Technical Readings and Resources

Searchable Terms

Acknowledgments

Other Books by Charlie Papazian

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