Publisher Description

Anyone who is interesed in home brewing, but never knew where to start, needs this book. Author's overall expertise and unique process of mashing makes the at-home brewing process very simple and easy to learn. Brewing your own beer is easier than you think with the simple mashing technique that produces the finest flavored beers, ales, stouts, and lagers.

Author Biography

Dave Line was a British beer author. An electrical engineer by profession, he is regarded as a pioneer in homebrewing as a pioneer in homebrewing during the 1970s because at the time homebrewing as a hobby was in its infancy.At the time people were not getting satisfactory results, because they were using substandard ingredients, low quality syrups or beer kits, baker's yeast, and were not technically informed in the processes of . He advocated the use of proper brewer's yeast, whole-grain barley malts, whole hops, and even went into simple analysis and comparison of the chemistry of water used for brewing different beers, and rudimentary water treatment. He also encouraged sterilisation and proper cleaning of equipment.He was a regular contributor to Amateur Winemaker, and in a decade, probably had more recipes published than anyone else. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 37.

Table of Contents

Introduction (xx)Recipes in this Book (xx)The Language of the Brewer! (xx)BREWING YOUR QUALITY BEER1. The Commercial Brewing Process (xx)2. Equipment (xx) Mash-tun, Bru-heat boiler, Grain bag, Dixie or Boiling Pan, Insulated Chest,Sparger, ''Ex Wine'' Polythene Cube, Dustbin, Other Equipment.3. Your First Brew (xx)The Simple Brewing Method, Mashing, Sparging, Boiling, Fermentation, Bottling, Casking.4. Easy Recipes''Beer'', ''Amber Ale'', ''Easy Light Ale'', ''Charger'' Light Ale, ''Pipkin'' Pale Ale, ''Revival'' Pale Ale, ''Romsey'' Stout, ''Match Hallertau Lager, ''Black Beauty'' Special Brown Ale.5. Other Systems of Mashing (xx)Floating Math-Tun, Mashing, Sparging, Burco Brewing Boiler, Method, Calibration for mashing, Mashing.BREWING INGREDIENTS6. Malt (xx) Pale Malt, Buying Malt.7. Colored Malts (xx)Crystal Malt, Black Malt, Roast Barley, Other Roast Malts, Mild Ale Malt, Roast Malt.8. Malt Adjuncts (xx)Flaked Rice, Flaked Maize, Flaked Barley, Malt Extract, Torrefied Barley, Oats, Wheat Malt, Wheat Syrup, Brewing Flour.9. Sugar (xx)White Sugar, Invert Sugar, Glucose Chips, Dark Sugars, Lactose, Artificial Sweeteners, Caramels, Treacles and Syrups, Liquorice, Honey.10. Hops (xx)Hop Plant, Wild Hops, Packaging, Constituents of Hops, Buying Hops, Storing Hops, Examination of Hops, The Hop Industry, Comparison of Hops, Types of Hops, Hop Rates, Brewing to Alpha Acid Content, Hop Utilization.11. Water (xx)Reasons for water treatment, Sources of Brewing Water, Acid and water treatment, pH and its implications, Using Water Analysis sheets, Hardness of water, Mineral Salt requirements, Sulphates, Chlorides, Carbonates, Nitrates, Water Treatment Summary.12. Yeast (xx) Starter Bottle, Commercial Yeasts, Yeast Cultures, Saving Yeasts.THE BREWING PROCESS13. Cleaning (xx)Cleaning, Reasons for Sterilization, Sterilizing Agents, Bleach, Sodium Metebisulphite, Milton, Silana P.F., Seeing in the dark!, Squeezy bottle sterilizer, Bottle brush.14. Malting (xx) Process15. Crushing the Malt (xx) Home-made Grain Crusher16. Mashing (xx)Theory of Mashing, Enzymes, Mash Reactions, The effect of pH, Stiffness of the Mash, Brewer''s Bedtime Story, ''Saccharomyces, and the Two Enzymes'', Preparing the Grist, Preparing the Mashing liquor, Preparing the Mash-tun, Mashing, Checking and adjusting pH, Mashing Over-nigh, Testing for Starch17. Sparging (xx) Sparging, Running off the Wort18. The Hydrometer (xx) The effects of temperature.19. Degrees of Extract (xx)20. Boiling (xx)Reasons for boiling, Adding the Hops, Adding the Sugar, Hot Break, Irish Moss, Hop Sparge.21. Cooling (xx) Reasons for Cooling, Cold Break.22. Fermentation (xx) Temperature, Top Fermentation, Secondary Fermentation, Bottom Fermentation.23. Finings (xx) Gelatine, Isinglass, Final Adjustments, Filtering.24. Bottled Beer (xx)Bottling Gravity, Bottles, Preparing the Bottles, Preparing the Beer, Labelling, Storing.25. Draught Beer (xx)Containers and Dispensers for Draught Beer, Plastic Pressure Barrels, Operation Conditions, Eurokegs, Sparklets Beertap, Pipkins, Pressure Barrel Beertap, Sparklets Automatic Pressure Injector, Other Systems.26. Beer from the Wood (xx) Reconditioning the Cask, Beer from the Wood.27. Maturing Your Beer (xx)Maturation, Clarity, Conditions, Head Formation, Head Retention, Heading Liquids, Storage Time.28. Rewards-Serving and Drinking (xx)Yeast Starters, Mashing, Low Extracts, Sparging, Boiling, Fermentation, The Finished Beer, "Flat" beer, No head, Hazes, Yeast Haze, Starch Haze, Protein Haze, Chill Haze, Disease.ADVANCED RECIPES30. Pale Ale (xx) ''Premium'', ''Red Pennant'', ''Cresta'', ''Sixes and Sevens''.31. Light Ale (xx) ''First Light'', ''Starbright'', ''Challenger'', ''44'' Light32. Bitter (xx) ''Brewer''s Reward'', ''Crystal'', ''Black Knight'', ''Body'', ''Light Bitter''.33. Lager (xx)Water for Lager, Lager Yeast, Closed Fermentation, Low Temperature Fermentation, Hops for Lager, ''S.L.'', ''Cerveza'', ''Linestein''.34. Mild Ale (xx) ''Amazing'', ''Midlands''.35. Brown Ales and Sweet Stouts (xx) ''Dark Ale'', ''Barley Brown'', ''McKinlay'', ''Baltic Black Stout''.36. Irish Stout (xx) ''Goodness Stout''37. Barley Wine (xx) ''Celebration Ale'', ''Shandy'', ''Kieve''.Conversion Tables and Useful Index (xx)

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For those who have always wanted to try brewing their own beer, but thought the methods were too difficult, comes this back in print classic from Dave Line, a pioneer of at-home beer making. Big Book of Brewing offers easy-to-follow instructions for his simple "mashing" technique that produces the finest flavored beers, ales, stouts, and lagers.Shedding new light on all-grain brewing, the author provides everything the you needs to know about equipment, and ingredients. You will also learn how to sterilize equipment, reasons for boiling, how to use a hydrometer, how to bottle, label and store beer, and much more. Additionally, the book includes many delicious beer recipes, like Line's "Pipkin" Pale Ale and "Black Beauty Special" Brown Ale. He categorizes them by simple and advanced beers, so any level of experience can find success. Line leaves nothing to the imagination, and with an outstanding sense of humor provides a truly comprehensive education to making beer anyone would be proud to serve.

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