Review of "The Brooklyn Brew Shop's Beer Making Book" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This book came as the manual in a Brooklyn BrewShop 1 gallon beer kit that I got in a Quartlery.co subscription box (curated by Wil Wheaton, I think, or perhaps Tim Ferriss) a few years ago, but has sat on my shelf unread. I decided this week to get back into brewing beer, but this time going beyond the basic goop-like extract mix, yeast, and water. Time to steep and sparge the grains, add the hops, boil and ferment the wort, bottle, and drink!
It’s designed by New Yorkers for their small living spaces, and so uses a 1 gallon container to make up to 10 bottles, rather than the large food buckets that make 40 bottles typical of home brewing . Ideal for small spaces, learning, and experimenting.
With the exception of using US measurements (its full of pounds, ounces, gallons, quarts, cups, and Fahrenheit), which I suppose is …
This book came as the manual in a Brooklyn BrewShop 1 gallon beer kit that I got in a Quartlery.co subscription box (curated by Wil Wheaton, I think, or perhaps Tim Ferriss) a few years ago, but has sat on my shelf unread. I decided this week to get back into brewing beer, but this time going beyond the basic goop-like extract mix, yeast, and water. Time to steep and sparge the grains, add the hops, boil and ferment the wort, bottle, and drink!
It’s designed by New Yorkers for their small living spaces, and so uses a 1 gallon container to make up to 10 bottles, rather than the large food buckets that make 40 bottles typical of home brewing . Ideal for small spaces, learning, and experimenting.
With the exception of using US measurements (its full of pounds, ounces, gallons, quarts, cups, and Fahrenheit), which I suppose is to be expected considering where it was written, it’s an instructive, straightforward and easy to follow book. The recipes are many and varied, to suit all tastes, it has a few gluten-free recipes, and a bunch of non-beer recipes... including a recipe for how to turn your leftover grain into dog biscuits.