Brew It!: 25 Great Home Brewing Recipes & Techniques for Beer, Kombucha & Coffee - Perfect for Beginners & Hobbyists

If you love beer and have a hand for cooking, crafting, or do-it-yourself projects, why not join the thriving community of home brewers and start making your own beer? Here, author Cory Hershberer tells you everything you to need to know to start creating thirst-quenching, flavorful beer in your own kitchen, from basics for the first time to more advanced options for those with a few batches under their belt. This book is a comprehensive guide to the home brewing process. Here you'll find: *A tour of the world's most alluring brews: the ales of Ireland, the Pilseners of Germany, the stouts of Belgium, and the pale ales of the U.S. *25 recipes, from pale ale and amber ale to porter, stout, and Pilsener *An overview of equipment needed, from thermometers and kettles to hydrometers and refractometers *Advice on preparation, sanitation, and journal-keeping *Understanding beer-making terminology: malt, hops, yeast, wort, sugars, and fermentation *The processes of bittering, flavoring, finishing, fermenting, and bottling *Brewing with extracts, including fruits, herbs, spices, and chocolate *Troubleshooting and improving the brew's flavor, color, and body *and much more! From Mesopotamian brewers 7,000 years ago to microbreweries in 21st-century Brooklyn, beer has captivated mankind in countless ways. There's an undeniable allure to the idea of transforming one's kitchen into a home brewery, and Brew It! is the simplest, most user-friendly guide available for beginning brewers ready to start beer making today. A complex concoction involving a little chemistry, biology, and physics, beer is a multi-step process of fermentation. This colorful, do-it-yourself guide demystifies malt, hops, and yeast and will soon be leading readers toward amber mugs of all-grain beer! From brew day to bottle day to game day, here is a guide for home brewers, from the initial stages of preparing for their first batch to serving friends and family your own homemade beer.