Summary
Interest in learning how to homebrew beer continues to grow along with the rapidly growing craft-beer industry. While there are a number of classic books about homebrewing techniques available, none cover the basic techniques with photo illustration suitable to help beginners grow comfortable with the technical processes of brewing beer. This step-by-step photo-heavy guide demystifies these processes and presents them clearly and cleanly in an easy-to-digest format for DIY brewers.
The Illustrated Guide to Homebrewing features a visual guide to beer ingredients: malt, hops, and yeast. It explains the different ingredients and why a brewer may want to choose certain malts or hops or yeast for particular recipes and desired results. It also includes instructions for both extract and all-grain brewing. This book will be appealing to the relatively novice brewers as well as to experienced brewers who are looking to expand their brewing skills.
Dave Carpenter is an avid homebrewer, teacher, and freelance writer. His writing has appeared in national magazines, he contributes regular web-exclusive content to beerandbrewing.com, and he develops curricula for the online brewing classes at learn.beerandbrewing.com.
Dave Carpenter is editor-in-chief of Zymurgy magazine, the journal of the American Homebrewers Association. As a former contributing editor to Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine#65533;, Dave's contributions to the publication included feature articles, exclusive online content for the website (beerandbrewing.com), and curriculum for the online education platform (learn.beerandbrewing.com). An accomplished writer and avid homebrewer, Dave enjoys combining his enthusiasm for brewing with his appreciation of the written word.
Always recognizing that homebrewing is, above all, a way to have fun, Dave promotes a lighthearted, curious, and personal approach to the endeavor, in which time-saving conveniences and labor-intensive experiments enjoy equal status. He enjoys brewing diverse beer styles, but German-style lagers, Wei#65533;bier, stout, and saison find their way into the rotation with particular frequency. Although not especially handy by nature, Dave has nonetheless managed to cultivate enough basic skills to build and maintain a kegerator, an ersatz beer engine, and a portable draft system.
In addition to homebrewing and craft beer, Dave's passions include travel, hiking, and foreign language. He holds degrees in aerospace engineering from MIT and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and he studied German at the Goethe-Institut in Freiburg im Breisgau. Dave lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife, Ginny, and the two cats that graciously allow them to occupy the same space in exchange for regular feedings and on-demand 3:00 a.m. tummy rubs.
Matt Graves is a Colorado-based editorial and commercial photographer. After graduating from Brooks Institute of Photography, he eventually made his way to Fort Collins where he regularly contributes to Fort Collins Magazine and Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine#65533;. See his work at mgravesphoto.com.
