More Homebrew Favorites More Than 260 New Brews

Homebrew gurus Lutzen and Stevens are back with another compilation of 269 of today’s most exciting brewing recipe innovations. New advances in brewing techniques and specialty beers are included, along with many unusual recipes and exotic brews such as “gruit, ” a medieval mixture of herbs and spices. Line drawings. Charts. Source list.

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4 Stars An even better selection than “Homebrew Favorites”
This book has a format very similar to that of Homebrew Favorites but has about 20 more recipes, many of them still carrying outrageous names. I liked the later chapters on fruit beers and the herb & spice beers, the thought of using hot peppers (they advise caution) as a flavoring has appeal to me, might help with the flavor some. Chapter 15, the last one, has mead recipes again, I appreciate that one, it’d be the one I’d most want to try.

3 Stars Fascinating book with lots of recipes
This seems like a pretty excellent book. I have been looking at it for about a week and it has a variety of recipes in there. Unfortunately many of the recipes have no comments at all and many that do have comments simply state what ribbon the beer won in which state honest. Very few of them really state what the recipe resembles or how it tastes.

Overall it seems to be a excellent collection of recipes, just a small disappointed that there isn’t more tasting comments.

4 Stars Excellent collection of recipes
Before I bought this book I looked at a couple of others first. I thought about Papazian’s “Homebrewers Companion” but it had a lot of things other than recipes that I didn’t need, and I thought about Higgins “Homebrewers Recipe Guide”, but I didn’t believe that even 3 people ever really brewed and tested 200 recipes, so I was left with Lutzen and Stevens two books “Homebrew Favorites” and “More Homebrew Favorites”. I bought them both.

The books contain lots of recipes (240 in the first volume, 260 in the second) and in every single style. The recipes are evenly split between simple extract recipes and the more advanced all grain recipes. (Excellent! I can be challenged when my skills improve.) Most vital to me was that the beers were brewed by a lot of different people, and a lot of them won awards in lots of different contests and lots of them include some comments about how the beers turned out. This gives me confidence that th! e recipes really worked and the huge number of recipes gives me lots of options and even helps me make my own variations, picking elements I like from one recipe and combining them from another.

The two “Homebrew Favorites” books are probably the best recipe collections on the market, at least for my needs (and probably most other homebrewers too). The books really are on target as far as knowing what homebrewers do in their kitchens.

The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is that there are some recipes in the book that too simple for me or that are kind of goofy (I don’t want to make beer with hot peppers in it!) Maybe you would like this though, so look at it and see.

5 Stars Very reliable
I rely on this book to pull me through.

I’ve been brewing for just over 6 years. I do mostly partial-mash/extract brews. This book has been invaluable not just for the recipes it contains, but also for the examples of styles and their ingredients that it presents.

Recipes are convieniently grouped by style and clearly labeled by difficulty (all-grain, extract, etc.). Most recipes also feature brewers and/or judges comments which can be valuable when improving upon or making your own recipe.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is just starting to brew their own or has been making kits and is looking for more of a challenge.

For the serious all-grain brewer, this book will be less than you’re looking for. You should try “Year of Beer” by Amahl Turczyn.

5 Stars brilliant recipe resource
I’ve made 6 different all-grain beers from this book so far, and all have been very excellent. The Northwest Stout recipe won me best overall at a local beer club event, over 35 other beers. There are other books much more suitable to “teaching” homebrewing. But, if you already have batches under your belt and you want to add some nice variety to your beer fridge, this book is certainly worth it.

Cheers.

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