Homebrewing For Dummies For Dummies Sports and Hobbies
Homebrewing For Dummies For Dummies Sports and Hobbies
Want to become your own brewmeister? Homebrewing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, gives you easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from making your first “kit” beer to brewing an entire batch from scratch. Before you know it, you’ll be boiling, bottling, storing, pouring, and kegging your own frothy, delicious suds.
This friendly, hands-on guide walks you through each step in the brewing process at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. It fills you in on all the homebrewing basics with a comprehensive equipment list; instructions on keeping your hardware clean and sanitized; and loving descriptions of the essential beer ingredients, their roles in the brewing process, and how to select the best ingredients for you beer. You’ll also find out about additional ingredients and additives you can use to give your homebrew distinctive flavors, textures, and aromas. Discover how to:
- Set up your home brewery
- Select the best ingredients and flavorings
- Create your own lager, ale, and specialty beers
- Try your hand at cider, and even meade
- Brew gluten-free beer
- Package your beer in bottles and kegs
- Evaluate your beer and troubleshoot problems
- Take part in homebrewing competitions
- Become an eco-friendly brewer
Homebrewing For Dummies, 2nd Edition is fully updated with the latest brewing techniques and technologies and features more than 100 winning recipes that will have your friends and neighbors singing your praises and coming back for more.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars A must read for first time brewers
If one takes the time to read this book you will be able to brew a good beer. You will be able to read and understand beer recipes and have a clue how to perhaps make the recipe even better.
5 Stars Very informative
I got this book because I wanted to learn to homebrew but didn’t have a clue how to begin. I’ve learned a lot about things I didn’t even know were important to homebrewing. This book is extremely easy to read and entertaining. I’d recommend it to others who want to learn more about homebrewing.
5 Stars admiralhardkey
Basic and the reading is consistant with this book style, easy to read and definitely not dry/boring.
5 Stars Takes the Frustration Out of the Brewing Process
If you’re a budding homebrewer or an experienced home brewer who could use a few tips and troubleshooting techniques, then Homebrewing for Dummies is a book worth buying. This book is a complete guide to homebrewing at different levels and it serves as a highly useful reference for those who wish to brew their own beer for the first time or who would like to find some ways to make their homebrew easier to make, better tasting, or more eco- friendly. This book covers everything that is important to the homebrewer, from purchasing equipment to buying the ingredients to bottling and evaluating the finished product.
Brewing beer isn’t easy and many homebrewing hobbies have been ended prematurely due to a recipe turned bad or by general frustration with getting everything right. This is where Homebrewing for Dummies can help. This book was written to assist homebrewers at all levels in the fine art of making beer. It steps the homebrewer through all of the important steps, starting with the equipment inventory and ending with the bottling process. Along the way, the book shares some secrets for homebrewing success, pointing out the importance of cleaning and sanitizing, temperature control, and other factors that directly influence the final product.
What I like best about Homebrewing for Dummies is its penchant for thoroughness. Many other books exist on this subject, but few cover so many different aspects of brewing as Homebrewing for Dummies. Those who are unfamiliar with homebrewing will probably be shocked to learn that this book is more than 400 pages in length. Many people mistakenly believe that making beer is a simple process than can quickly be described in one- hundred or fewer pages and many authors have, indeed, attempted to compose quick guides to homebrewing that are a fraction of the length of this guide. But to cover every aspect of homebrewing, a much longer guide is needed. Homebrewing for Dummies wants to make sure that you, the homebrewing enthusiast, have all the necessary facts and information at your fingertips to make sure your homebrewing batch turns out just right and once you get involved in a hobby like homebrewing and realize what it entails, you will agree that a much longer book is necessary to do the justice to the craft.
Since this book is part of the For Dummies line of books, it is written in a format similar to the others in this popular series. Thus, it includes bulleted text, unique icons to indicate special points, highlights, boldface headings, etc. This type of format makes the book more readable and better organized. It is also humorous at times. The author wants the homebrewer to take his/her hobby seriously, but he also wants to make sure the brewer enjoys himself/herself in the process. So, he includes touches of humor from time to time throughout the book. The humor isn’t excessive by any means. It is just right and is well timed, offering a nice change of pace as you read, helping to lighten up the mood as you learn more and more about the world’s greatest beverage.
Overall, Homebrewing for Dummies is an excellent book about brewing beer. It covers the subject of homebrewing thoroughly and effectively, is flawlessly written, and is entertaining to read. It’s an outstanding resource for the homebrewing hobbyist and a book I recommend to anyone with an interest in this subject.
4 Stars I am pleasantly supprised… and a bit tipsy
I read this book cover to cover (took me about a week) before I started brewing. I bought the right equipment, and followed the instructions in the book. Now, three weeks after brewing and four weeks after purchasing the book, I have some pretty good homemade bottled beer!
Brewing is not for the impatient, but the author makes that clear. This book is very easy to follow. You don’t have to read the whole thing. Some of the chapters are for people who are pretty advanced in the hobby.
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Ultimate Gift Basket Crafting Guide
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Stop Paying Out-The-Nose For Specialty Gift Baskets That Don’t Even Fit The Bill And Start Making Your Own Stunning, Unique Baskets In As Little As 5 Minutes Flat!
Within the pages of this guide you will find plenty of useful information on making your own gift baskets as thoughtful gifts or to earn some extra spending money in your spare time.
There are ideas for any gift giving occasion included, an extra gift basket idea guide comprised of over 100 pages for even more ideas, a supply list breakdown, general places to purchase your gift basket supplies from, and tips for making money with your gift basket creations.
Whether you are interested in gift baskets for personal or professional reasons, you will find plenty of phenomenal ideas, tools and tips for creating stunning and original gift baskets for anyone and for any occasion — without spending tons of money to do so.
In short, you get everything you need to begin making and “gifting” wonderful hand-made gift basket creations that will surely be accepted graciously by those you care about.
Get Saucy Make Dinner a New Way Every Day with Simple Sauces Marinades Glazes Dressings Pestos Pasta Sauces Salsas and More
Whether a simple vinaigrette, a pasta sauce, or something more indulgent, nothing enlivens and enriches a dish like a delicious sauce. Get Saucy provides 500 sensational recipes from all over the world and suggestions for different ways to use the sauces. A James Beard Award nominee, Get Saucy is an indispensable resource for home cooks of all skill levels looking to dress up everyday meals in exciting new ways.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars This is my Bible
A friend gave me this for Christmas and if she weren’t already #1 in my book, this would have put her over the top.
I have always enjoyed making sauces and salad dressings, but I usually just threw something together and hoped it tasted like I wanted it to. This book just overwhelmed me with the possibilities.
I have only made a few of the recipes so far, but everything has turned out very well. I made the mustard bechamel to go with the roast duck my family had on New Year’s Day and I got rave reviews. Since the basic bechamel recipe makes about 4 cups, and I only needed 1 cup for the mustard sauce, I used the excess to make the Spinach-Pignoli Pesto Lasagne recipe included in the book. The only modification I made to the recipe was eliminating the raisins from the pesto - no one in my family cares for them. While the lasagne blorped a bit in the oven, it tasted delicious. I’d maybe up the ricotta content for next time, but that’s a minimal issue.
I’d give the book a 5-star rating, but I haven’t made enough of the sauces/pestos/marinades to properly judge how easy or hard all the recipes are. I’ll admit the bechamel was a bit work-intensive, but the end results were totally worth it. I am definitely looking forward to making each and every recipe in this book.
2 Stars Getting Sauced….
would be a better endeavor than the first recipe I tried in this book. My first go at one of her recipes was the seafood cream sauce on page 40. I looked at the ingredients and assembled them beforehand and gave the recipe a quick look over (that’s usually all I need if I have all the ingredients ready to go in advance - I should have studied it more carefully, I wouldn’t have bothered with it due to the time it takes). I’ll have to guess here that Parisi has made this sauce before but when writing the recipe she’s guessed from memory about the timing. The sauce, if you follow her direction explicitly, takes 73 minutes to complete, that’s an awful long time for a fairly simple recipe. And, after 73 minutes, it wasn’t very good. I’d challenge her to do it again using her own timing instructions. The salsas in the book are pretty basic, her advice on Thai cuisine is that if you can’t find Thai basil just go ahead and use regular is an insult to Thai cuisine, there’s such a huge difference in the two that it’s astounding to me she would recommend that substition, gee - my regular old ordinary supermarket carries Thai basil or I can drive another 15 mins and pick it up at an Asian market. Don’t be lazy, get the real deal, it’s a quite different taste and you’ll be glad you did. Sorry, this book just doesn’t cut it for me.
5 Stars Great book
the book covers every kind of sauce you could imagine, so it’s a great reference as well as a “recipe” book. I love to make my own sauces to that I can control the additives, and this book takes the guesswork out of figuring out quantity as well as quality.
5 Stars A home cook’s go-to book
Quite frankly, having no more than 30-45 min. after work to fix dinner for a family everyday, I will invariably go for the dish with the least amount of work. As such, roasting, quick sauteeing, grilling, etc. are what meats, poulty and seafood are subjected to nightly in my kitchen.
Having “Get Saucy” is of tremendous help to me. I’m able to vary and improve the tastes of our everyday fare. I’m not making the same spaghetti sauces or the same gravies week in and week out. I’ve made about a dozen sauces, pestos, marinades, etc. from this book and each one has been simply delicious. I will usually prepare the sauce the night before, stick it in the fridge and warm it up or incorporate it with what’s cooking for dinner next day.
As to whether the sauces in this book are authentic or not hardly concerns me. If it’s quick to prepare, reasonable in cost, tasty and complementary to the main dishes and sides I cook, then it’s a keeper for me.
5 Stars Highly Recommened Time-Saver!
This gem threw itself at me in my local cooking store and I have been very happily “saucing!” Sure, there are many wonderful books on sauces already, some very sophisticated and some not. This book is a mix of both worlds. It is like someone has gone through all my cookbooks (and there are many…) and pulled out most of the sauces, from classic to fusion. It is well organized, directions are clear, ingredients are easily obtained (and if you are a card-carrying foodie like me, you already have almost ALL the ingredients already…) and it has a great pairing section for easy, no-brainer combinations of sauces for salads, pork, fish, beef, desserts, etc. This book helps spiff up whatever you are serving from salad to dessert.
My very first experience with the book successfully hooked me. Having scored a counter-top, electric roaster for Christmas, I have been experimenting with the cooker to see what it can and cannot do by using larger roasts, chickens, etc. Granted my 16 year-old is 6′1″ and eats eight meals a day, but left-overs are not his cup of tea. After you slice off lovely large pieces of a six-pound pork roast for Sunday dinner, what the heck do you do with the rest to make it interesting and different and creative without a degree from the CIA? Grab this book: Sunday, I roasted the six-pound roast and served it with the “Creamy Sherry Vinegar Pan Sauce”; Monday, I cubed some of the meat and served it over rice with the “Sweet-And-Sour Stir-Fry Sauce”, pineapple and some green peppers; Wednesday, the rest of the roast got shredded and mixed with “Smoky Texas-Style BBQ Sauce” and was served with coleslaw on hamburger rolls to my son and two of his friends. The plates were clean.
Now, THAT’s economical, and fun! Three meals for the cost of one pork roast (on special, by the way) all very different and very tasty. This is not gourmet cooking, I know, I know…but at 5:30 pm on a week-night when my creative juices are well, not as “juicy” as I’d like, this is just fine by me.
My only complaint was that my book is a paperback. But Amazon has again saved the day: Just ordered the hardcover for myself and my daughter will get this one.
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