BETTER BEER & HOW TO BREW IT

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Summary: Average information, not very good recipes
Review: The information in this book is OK for the beginner, but out of date, and the recipes are not very good. Many call for the use of several cups of corn sugar in the fermentation and nowhere near enough hops during the boil. The resulting beer tasted like alcoholic, carbonated syrup. You can get all of this beginner information for free on the internet. There are so many other good books out there on brewing that I would avoid this one.

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Summary: Better Beer & How to Brew It
Review: This book by M.R. Reese gives a very elementary approach to homebrewing. While it supplies the reader with recipes, the book only gives detailed instructions only once. And the author expects the reader to flip back to the page [with the instructions] each time. Plus the instructions for making the brew are very standard or generic. Yet as any home brewer may well tell you that each beer with different ingredients require the brewer to alter the direction ever so slightly. Each recipe is different, requiring different instructions.