Guide to the Making of Beer

If you are like most people you want make your own beer and your want the fastest, most trouble free route to do it. 

Trust us, we understand.

The best way to learn about the making of beer is to have a friend or relative who really knows how to make good beer. That way you can watch how they do each step and ask questions along the way. They can tell you about the mistakes they have made and how to avoid making the same ones.

The problem is that if you are like most people then you don't have a friend or relative who know the ins and outs of making home brew beer.

Here's a Good Guide for Making Home Brew

Short of that, a lot of people go out a buy a book on how to make beer. That too, has a lot of shortfalls. The biggest one is that the book may tell you how to do certain steps but it may not be clear exactly how to do it. Think about this.... Let's say you don't know how to drive a car so you decide to go out and buy a book to teach you how to drive a car. After you read the book, do you really think you would know how to drive? Of course you wouldn't. You would be a menace on the road if you tried to drive a car from just reading a book. And to continue with the analogy, you just might be a menace to yourself and your beer drinking friends if you try to brew beer from just reading a book.

So if you are a beginner and you don't have anyone to show you the ropes and we certainly can't recommend reading a book on how to home brew beer from the beginning. After you have some experience in home brewing beer and know what to do and why you are doing it, then a book to help you "go to the next level" is okay, just not from the very beginning.

So what is the answer?

Well, if you are like me, you would rather be able to watch someone do something and explain what they are doing as they are doing it. That's why I really like video training programs. I tend to get more out of a video than I do a book. For me it's closer to the way I learned in school. The teacher would stand in the front of the room and explain whatever it was we were expected to learn. That type of teaching/learning has stuck with me. If you prefer the video route, then there are some training guides available for you.

I do understand that not everyone is like me so, on the other hand, if you happen to enjoy reading books instead of watching someone else perform the task then there have been some pretty good books written on how to brew beer.

Here's a short list of the very best ones:

• How to Brew, John Palmer, 3rd Edition - This books goes into great depth about the brewing process and does a good job of explaining why each step is necessary.
• Designing Great Beers, Ray Daniels - A book for the experienced brewer. It focuses on how to design your own beer formulas/recipes.
• The Homebrewer's Answer Book, Ashton Lewis - Think of this book as a compendium of questions asked by beer brewers. A kind of FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for the person making home brew beer.
• Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew, John Palmer and Jamil Zainasheff - There are a lot of different types/styles of beer out there and this book goes into detail about each style plus has recipes for each style too.

Like a lot of other things on the internet, there's a lot of bad, in some cases, just completely wrong information out there on home beer brewing. A good brewing guide will give you a very good foundation of knowledge about the entire beer brewing process.

In the beginning, the best money you can spend is in buying some sort of Brewing Guide. Whether it's a video program guide or just a book. You are going to have lots of questions and you need to learn how to do things the proper way from the beginning.

The best mistake is one you didn't make and a good Brewing Guide will keep you from making a lot of mistakes.

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