Product Description

The perennial favourite of home brewers, "Brew Your Own British Real Ale" is a CAMRA classic. This new edition is re-written, enhanced and updated with new recipes for contemporary and award-winning beers, as well as recipes for old favourites no longer brewed commercially.Written by home brewing authority Graham Wheeler, "Brew Your Own British Real Ale" includes detailed brewing instructions for both novice and more advanced home-brewers, as well as comprehensive recipes for recreating some of Britain's best-loved beers at home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6027 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Graham Wheeler is a leading authority on home-brewing and the author of Home Brewing and Brew Classic European Beer at Home, also published by CAMRA. He has written extensively on the subjects of home brewing and recreating classic British and foreign beers at home.

Customer Reviews

Excellent and informative
Being a book about Real Ale, you won't find any lager recipes in here. Just as well, as properly brewed lagers are more dificult to brew at home. This makes the book an excellent entry into home brewing, having instructions for extract, partial mash and full mash brewing. The recipes are clear and easy to understand and make a good basis for creating your own beers once you've gained a bit more confidence. The anecdotes about the history of different types of beers make this book more interesting than a straight instruction book. I would also recommend the CAMRA Guide to Hoembrewing and Brew Classic European Beers at Home by the same author.

Mr Wheeler does it again
An excellent intro to brewing technique for the beginner and excellent recipes for the more experienced. For more info on the subject you cannot get better than world wide web dot jimsbeerkit dot co dot uk.

Excellent
This is an excellent book on home brew and an improvement on the previous editions. I used to have a copy of a previous edition which in my view had typographical and some scientific errors. This edition is much improved and in fact a much easier read. Easy for the beginner and returning brewer alike. The receipies feature traditional british ales - milds, bitters, pales, stouts and porters. If you are looking for traditional british beer and how to make it then buy this book. There are good sections on equipment, yeast and hops amongst the obvious others and a discussion of the different methods used in homebrewing and the majority of the recipies provided can be made in either malt extract (dried or liquid) or all-grain with with the relevant conversions provided.

Not just a beginners book, the chapter on water treatment has got me thinking I might give it a go. Something I thought I would never do.