Dave Miller's Homebrewing Guide

January 9, 1995
In A Taste for Beer, coming from Storey in October, Stephen Beaumont provides a concise, entertaining overview of the world of beer: styles, flavors, food combinations, recipes--as he puts it: ``the many ways in which beer may contribute to the quality of your life.'' ($14.95 paper, 192p ISBN 0-88266-907-9) After you're familiar with all the options, you may want to consider making your own: in Home Brew, coming in October from Lyons & Burford, Philip Ward introduces the various beers and provides simple instructions for brewing your own: equipment and supplies needed, how to set up your own brewery, recipes, resource lists and more. ($12.95 paper 160p, ISBN 1-55821-315-5) Dave Miller's Homebrewing Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great-Tasting Beer, also from Storey in October is a comprehensive reference to the entire brewing process, with charts, tables and illustrations. Miller, an experienced brewmaster, devotes each chapter to covering a topic in depth, with full detail on the latest techniques.

December 9, 2008
Longtime home brewer and author of The Complete Handbook of Home Brewing, Miller writes that "it is not the size of your bank account, but your dedication to good beer that will enable you to brew the best." This guide's fast and simple 18-page primer on the home-brewing process is followed by no fewer than 34 chapters that discuss what happens when you tweak this or that. Mash methods, yeast, wort aeration, pitching-it's all here. Miller scores points by providing recipes for experimentation-a hallmark of any good home-brewing book-and by including helpful conversion tables and handy illustrations. Not a step-by-step guide, this title is a great choice for experienced home brewers interested in going deeper.-Douglas C. Lord, Connecticut State Lib., Middletown

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