Brewing with wheat : the 'wit' and 'weizen' of world wheat beer styles / by Stan Hieronymus.

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9780937381953

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Author:

Hieronymus, Stan

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Hieronymus, Stan

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Physical Description:

xii, 216 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Pt. I. Wheat, the other brewing grain: 1. Wheat, Beer, and Bread -- 2. Wheat Basics: Why Is My Beer Cloudy? -- Pt. II. The white beers of Belgium: 3. In Search of the Real Belgian White Ale -- 4. The Six Degrees of Pierre Celis -- 5. A Recipe for Wit -- Pt. III. The weiss beers of Southern Germany: 6. A Fallen Style Returns to Glory -- 7. Bavarian Tradition With a Wyoming Accent -- 8. A Recipe for Hefeweizen -- Pt. IV. The wheat beers of America: 9. A Hefeweizen By Any Other Name -- 10. Brewing in a Melting Pot -- 11. Two Recipes for Wheat Wine -- Pt. V. Wheat beers from the past: 12. Beers the Reinheitsgebot Never Met -- 13. The Care and Brewing of Relics -- 14. Four Resurrected Recipes -- Pt. VI. Putting it all together: 15. Better Brewing, Judging and Enjoying -- Appendix - Yeast charts.

Subject Term:

Wheat beer.

Weiss beer.

Brewing.

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2010

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The wit and weizen of wheat beers. Author Stan Hieronymus visits the ancestral homes of the world's most interesting styles -- Hoegaarden, Kelheim, Leipzig, Berlin and even Portland, Oregon-to sort myth from fact and find out how the beers are made today. Complete with brewing details and recipes for even the most curious brewer, and answers to compelling questions such as Why is my beer cloudy? and With or without lemon?

Author Notes

Stan Hieronymus is a lifelong journalist who has made beer his beat since 1993. Former editor at RealBeer.com and ProBrewer.com and former co-travel editor for All About Beer magazine, he remains an enthusiastic traveler, happily sharing what he learns along the way. He's authored four books for Brewers Publications - Brewing Local (2016), For the Love of Hops: The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops (2012), Brewing with Wheat (2010) and Brew like a Monk (2005) - and contributed to many more. He's also written hundreds of articles for multiple publications and blogs at www.appellationbeer.com.

Yvan De Baets

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
About the Book	p. 6
Part I Wheat, the Other Brewing Grain
1 Wheat, Beer, and Bread	p. 15
2 Wheat Basics: Why Is My Beer Cloudy?	p. 25
Partly Cloudy to Cloudy	p. 28
Twenty-First Century Solutions	p. 29
You Say 4-Vinyl Guaiacol, I Say Clove	p. 30
The German View	p. 31
Part II The White Beers of Belgium
3 In Search of the Real Belgian White Ale	p. 37
Bière Blanche de Louvain	p. 40
Peeterman	p. 44
Bière de Hougaerde (or Hoegaerde)	p. 45
4 The Six Degrees of Pierre Celis	p. 49
It All Started With a White	p. 56
The Best-Selling American Wheat Beer Ever	p. 59
Treating the Spices Right	p. 62
Acting Green and Looking White	p. 64
Two Times White Is Still White	p. 67
A Taste of Leuven?	p. 68
5 A Recipe for Wit	p. 71
Part III The Weiss Beers of Southern Germany
6 A Fallen Style Returns to Glory	p. 77
7 Bavarian Tradition With a Wyoming Accent	p. 89
Meet the Other Schneider	p. 94
The Beers Are Smoked, The Wheat Isn't	p. 96
An Open Fermentation Policy	p. 97
Making Adjustments in New Jersey	p. 99
Don't Be Nice to Weiss	p. 102
8 A Recipe for Hefeweizen	p. 105
Part IV The Wheat Beers of America
9 A Hefeweizen By Any Other Name	p. 115
10 Brewing in a Melting Pot	p. 123
Beer From America's Breadbasket	p. 127
A Midsummer Night's Dream	p. 132
Summer Ale on the Oregon Coast	p. 134
Wheat Wine: The Beer	p. 136
A Beer for the Punk Comic Crowd	p. 138
11 Two Recipes for Wheat Wine	p. 141
Part V Wheat Beers From the Past
12 Beers the Reinheitsgebot Never Met	p. 149
13 The Care and Brewing of Relics	p. 163
14 Four Resurrected Recipes	p. 171
Part VI Putting It All Together
15 Better Brewing, Judging, and Enjoying	p. 181
Belgian White/Wit	p. 183
German Weizen Beers	p. 185
American Wheat	p. 189
Berliner Weisse	p. 190
Gose	p. 192
Appendix - Yeast charts	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 207

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