I Want A Good Book For All Grain Brewing

[beerman101]

G'day brewers
I have become very interested in broadening my horizans and making the move from extract brewing to allgrain brewing.
I am looking for a good simple begginers book for all grain brewing to get me going.
Also what is the cheapest way to get started??
All sugestions are welcome

Cheers

 

[Kai]

howtobrew.com

 

[tangent]

if you can read everything in Papazians Complete Joy of Hombrewing 3rd edition, you'll have a good start - at my local library for free now!

 

[Linz]

Also Homebrewing, A CAMRA guide......Pommie version of How to Brew and a tad older...

 

[Aaron]

I will stick my hand up for "How to Brew". You simply can't go passed it for an introduction to brewing. It is a really simple read. It is well written and has plenty of good info. I can't imagine something better for a beginner. It is simple but give plenty of information.

 

[crozdog]

Do a search here for "brew in a bag" (BIAB) for a simple cheap way to get started in AG.

Crozdog

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels


Gives you heaps of info on styles and how to go about formulating recipies.

 

[tangent]

technically, the cheapest would be to grab, designing great beers, the complete joy of homebrewing & print out the complete how to brew in a library, then RUN!

edit - next best to that is what Kai said or join a library and share.

 

[Randall the Enamel Animal]

A good intro to technical brewing is the book 'The Biotechnology of Malting and Brewing' by JS Hough. Got me off on the right foot.

 

[jimmysuperlative]

"Homebrewing for Dummies" by Marty Nachel takes you right through from kits to partial mashing and onto full mash/AG. There's some humour as well, and just enough technical stuff to help you sound like you know what your doing ... :blink:

I'd also endorse Papazian's books, and John Palmer's "How to Brew" (hard copy).

...for all the reading/planning/designing I did to get into AG, the simplest method for me was BIAB (on this forum). Type it into the search field, and you'll be away!

 

[DarkFaerytale]

"Homebrewing for Dummies" by Marty Nachel takes you right through from kits to partial mashing and onto full mash/AG. There's some humour as well, and just enough technical stuff to help you sound like you know what your doing ... :blink:

i totally agree, this is a great book to start out with and seems a bit easier to get ahold of than some of the other excelent brewing books around

-Phill