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Summary: captures the joys of homebrewing.
Review: This book does a great job capturing the mechanical part of the essence of homebrewing. It's well written and well illustrated, but is it useful? Some of the gadgets are too simple to warrant inclusion and a few are unnecessarily elaborate. But, by and large, it includes a lot of gadgets that you could develop, with a little creativity, on your own (and Homebrewing is all about being creative). You might not make/use the gadgets, but it makes you think about the process.So, yes, it's useful, especially if you use that saved creativity for tinkering with hops, malts and yeasts.
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Summary: You get exactly what the title says..........
Review: This is a book about brewing equipment, nothing more, nothing less. It goes into great detail on how to build your own brewing equipment or where to buy prefabricated set-ups, such as; 3 tier used keg or cooler lauter tun systems, false bottom bucket lauter tuns, immersion wort chillers, dual immersion wort chillers, counter flow wort chillers, sparging equipment, filtration equipment, and much, much more. I really liked the attention to detail, right down to the type of plastics and PVC to use or not to use, what type of solder to use or not to use for soldering. Lutzen even goes into great detail when comparing various systems, giving his non biased opinion on many of the systems you can either buy or build. This is probably the most helpful part of the book, in my opinion. It's good to know that you can successfully accomplish what you're trying to do without spending top dollar for the equipment.
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