| |
|
Techniques in Home Winemaking: The Comprehensive Guide to Making Chateau-Style Wines
Daniel Pambianchi
Vehicule Press, 2008
From crushing grapes to bottling wine, this essential handbook enables the home winemaker to make informed decisions about ingredients, equipment, and the winemaking process. Precise step-by-step instructions lead both novice and advanced winemakers through all of the important procedures, including selecting and working with new equipment, determining the best material for specific styles, ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Complete Guide to Home Winemaking 1 review
Brian Leverett
Prism Press, 1996
Complete ? Guide to Home Winemaking
I bought this book on the strength of the title and I also bought Jon Iverson's book. The Iverson book is wonderful, clear and was a big help. To call this book "complete" is outright thievery. If you are looking for valuble, worthwhile information about how to make wine this is not the book to ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Pairing Wine With Food: Everything You Would Like to Know About Pairing Wine With Food, and More! 3 reviews
Robert Hoffman, Virginia Hoffman
McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, 2000
Five Stars Plus a Thank You
+ Needs a bit more detail
This is the first practical book I have seen that tells you simply and easily which wines go best with which food. The nicest thing about the book is that it is not stuffy. It tells you which wines will go well with things like nachos, Kentucky Fried Chicken as well as elegant foods like ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Basic Homebrewing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics)
Jim Parker
Stackpole Books, 2006
The book teaches essential techniques through clear, step-by-step instruction, revealing a process that is equal parts science and art. You'll familiarize yourself with both the technology that makes brewing possible as well as the malts, hops, and additives that give a beer its flavour. By the end, you'll have the tools you need to start experimenting on your own and coming up with new ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Brew it yourself;: A complete guide to the brewing of beer, ale, mead & wine
Leigh P Beadle
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Wine Maker's Answer Book (Answer Book (Storey)) 4 reviews
Alison Crowe
Storey Publishing, LLC, 2007
A Great Help to Any Winemaker (or those just interested!)
+ the wine maker's answer book
+ Nice QA book
+ In your face gobs of jammy knowledge
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Home Winemaking Chem 101 1 review
Curtis Irion
Xlibris Corporation, 2000
Great information, but rough around the edges.
I really did enjoy reading this book, and I commend it very much because it did accomplish its mission: I learned a great deal about wine, and got a glimpse of the complex chemistry behind it. On that level, this is a great success for the layman-- if you took some college biology or had chemistry ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Wine Science: Principles, Practice, Perception (Food Science and Technology)2 reviews
Ron S. Jackson
Academic Press, 2000
Comprehensive scientific overview
+ As good as a book around
Jackson provides a well-written overview of viticulture and oenology, with academic rigour and a bias towards more recent research. This book was very useful in my studies through the Cape Wine Academy, and I expect it to continue being a useful reference. Make sure to pick up the second ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Secrets from the Master Brewers: America's Top Professional Brewers Share Recipes and Tips for Great ... 5 reviews
Paul Hertlein, Maura Kate Kilgore, ...
Fireside, 1998
It's the yeast stupid
+ Good book
This is a great book to progress to after you've read a couple of the starter homebrewing books. It's eye opening to hear the methods and techniques of the actual microbrewers. Their collection of recipes is the best I've seen in one book. The most important thing that I learned in this book is ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Brew Ware: How to Find, Adapt & Build Homebrewing Equipment21 reviews
Karl F. Lutzen, Mark Stevens
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1996
Excellent Resource
+ Brew Ware: How to
As a library administrator, I get to see and read a lot of books pertaining to all my hobbies and I can honestly say that this book is a must have for anyone starting out in home brewing. It details all of the equipment you will need for basic to semi-advanced brewing. I particularly like the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Brewing Mead: Wassail! In Mazers of Mead4 reviews
Robert Gayre, Charlie Papazian
Brewers Pubns, 1986
A Passion for Mead
This is one of those extraordinary books that comes of a lifetime pursuit. Gayre goes way back in history to tell of the evolution of mead and its appreciation, even to when mead was the drink of "gods and men alike." It's not a recipe book, though a few recipes have been attached at the end. ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Techniques in Home Winemaking: A Practical Guide to Making Chateau-Style Wines 5 reviews
Daniel Pambianchi
Vehicule Press, 2002
A competent guide to making premium grape wines at home
+ Excellent Info
+ Techniques in Home Winemaking - happy customer :)
+ Wine Making Review
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Concepts in Wine Technology1 review
Yair Margalit
Wine Appreciation Guild, 2003
make your wine beter
good book must to have if you are a wine maker
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
A Sip Through Time: A Collection of Old Brewing Recipes3 reviews
Cindy Renfrow
Cindy Renfrow, 1995
A "must have" for period potable makers
+ A Sip Through Time
+ one of the best brewing books for serious reenactors
Cindy Renfrow has compiled a thorough presentation of period and somewhat out of period recipies for brewers of medieval beverages. She does a great job referencing each recipe and includes a helpful glossary of terms, as well as a lengthy list of herbs and fruits found in those recipes. If you ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Principles of Brewing Science, Second Edition: A Study of Serious Brewing Issues 5 reviews
George Fix
Brewers Publications, 2000
Excellent technical coverage
+ Excellent - improved over 1st Edition
This is a fairly technical discussion of the subject of brewing chemistry. It's probably more than your typical home-brewer will want to get into, but if you've got some biochem background, or have read Dr. Lee Janson's Brew Chem 101 book and are looking to read on from there, (or you're a very ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Handbook of Enology, The Chemistry of Wine: Stabilization and Treatments
Wiley, 2006
The Handbook of Enology Volume 2: The Chemistry of Wine Stabilization and Treatments uniquely combines chemical theory with the descriptions of day-to-day work in the latter stages of winemaking from clarification and stabilization treatments to ageing processes in vats and barrels. The expert authors discuss: Compounds in wine, such as organic acids, carbohydrates, and alcohol. ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine30 reviews
Jeff Cox
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999
Almost perfect
+ Review By Craig Justice, Founder, Blue Merle Vineyard & Winery
+ Especially good for trellising and pruning
+ Great for Home Winemakers or Wine Students
+ Complete resource
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation19 reviews
Stephen Harrod Buhner
Siris Books, 1998
Liberating! The Greatest Book on Brewing "Beers"
+ Lots of Great Information
+ Good book
This book takes the reader to places most homebrew books never dare or dream to go. Most homebrew books are a rehash of boring methods, and recipes. This is NOT one of those books.
This book brings brewing back to its human level. It tells the tales of people around the world and the methods they ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Wild Brews: Culture and Craftsmanship in the Belgian Tradition6 reviews
Jeff Sparrow
Brewers Publications, 2005
A Lambic Tour
+ Don't try this at home. . . .
+ Wild Brews
+ A different perspective on what is beer
+ Good history for those interested
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Wine Science: The Application of Science in Winemaking (Mitchell Beazley Drink)1 review
Jamie Goode
Mitchell Beazley, 2005
Most updated book on the subject
The world of wine is changing fast, so books on wine science should be consumed while they are still fresh. This is a very new book dealing with the most important scientific issues today in a good way. It is interesting with lots of facts although I personally do not agree with all parts of the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
