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Revised, updated, and expanded, the second edition of "Clonebrews" contains 50 new recipes that reflect the current popularity of strongly hopped India pale ales and American pale ales as well as the growing interest in brown ales, imperial beers, English bitters, porters, stouts, wheat beers, and Belgian ales. The new edition also contains expanded and updated mashing guidelines and a complete review of ingredients and materials. All new to the second edition is a Food Pairing feature that recommends the best foods for every beer an indispensable feature for the brewer who also loves to barbecue or cook! Tested and retested, tasted and re-tasted, Tess and Mark Szamatulskis recipes are the product of 20 years spent running a successful homebrew supply shop and working with customers to create perfect beer clones. They deliver the flavours that home brewers want, described in clear recipes that every brewer will want to make.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has loads of great recipes for 150 brews from around the world. For the UK based brewer (and beer fan) you WILL have heard of (and sampled?) at least 100 of the 150 beers. Having tried 5 recipes so far the results are a good 'clone' of the commercial version.
Layout is excellent, similar to a conventional cookbook, with all recipes having a extract, mini and full mash description. Also, and V important for the uk/euro brewer the recipies use 'us imperial' and metric. No more formulas!
Highly recommended, am buying the follow up book beer captured today!
Layout is excellent, similar to a conventional cookbook, with all recipes having a extract, mini and full mash description. Also, and V important for the uk/euro brewer the recipies use 'us imperial' and metric. No more formulas!
Highly recommended, am buying the follow up book beer captured today!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is great book to use as the basis of any recipe. The recipes are well laid out and for the few that I've tried, give good copies of the beers they claim to be as long as you take into account the points below.
There are 2 problems with the recipes which means that every single one of them requires some work with a calculator to make changes:
Firstly, if you are brewing the All Grain version of the recipe you are told to scale the bittering hops down by a percentage given, but varying for each recipe. Whilst this is not difficult it's just plain annoying to have to take the amount specified and recalculate them to another value. It would not have taken much to print the correct values in the first place.
Secondly, the final gravity of some of the recipes is just too high. Calculating and brewing these beers you will end up with a much lower final gravity and thus a higher amount of alcohol than you want. In some cases this is as much as 1%ABV. You'll need to rescale the recipe to lower the original gravity to compensate.
This by no means that the book is rubbish, it's just that you'll want to take the recipe and run it through some brewing software first to check that you're going to end up with what you wanted.
There are 2 problems with the recipes which means that every single one of them requires some work with a calculator to make changes:
Firstly, if you are brewing the All Grain version of the recipe you are told to scale the bittering hops down by a percentage given, but varying for each recipe. Whilst this is not difficult it's just plain annoying to have to take the amount specified and recalculate them to another value. It would not have taken much to print the correct values in the first place.
Secondly, the final gravity of some of the recipes is just too high. Calculating and brewing these beers you will end up with a much lower final gravity and thus a higher amount of alcohol than you want. In some cases this is as much as 1%ABV. You'll need to rescale the recipe to lower the original gravity to compensate.
This by no means that the book is rubbish, it's just that you'll want to take the recipe and run it through some brewing software first to check that you're going to end up with what you wanted.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having spent many weeks working in Brussels over the years I have drunk quite a large volume of Belgian beer. I used the recipe in this book to make my own version of Westmalle Tripel which is a great beer and one of the very few true Belgian Trappist ales. I was amazed with the results. Not only did my beer taste the same as the real thing but I also managed to replicate the relatively high 9.5% ABV required. The (low) cost of the book was worth it for this one recipe alone but now I have 149 others to try. This book does exactly what it say on the cover!
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Highly over-rated
Although it deserves more than one star, I'm trying to compensate for the blatant over-rating this book has received. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2008 by Kuffermann
Pretty Good Intro for Homebrewers with Plenty of Ideas
This isn't a bad book, it covers a lot of different styles of beer from around the world and opens ones mind up to the various options and possibilities of what can be brewed at... Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2008 by Bob Monkhouse
Pretty good, but not a 'stand-alone' book
This book is ok if you are a competent homebrewer, want to copy a particular style of beer and want to know what ingredients to buy. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2007 by Frazer Kennedy
great!
i am reletively impressed with this book the recipies are detailed and well layed out they use extract recipies but there is a whole grain method for all the recipies although most... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2006
Don't waste your money.
Although I was very displeased with this book I will give credit where credit is due. The recipes were well laid out with conversions from extract to mini-mash and all-grain. Read more
Published on 23 July 1999
Home Brewing Could Not Be Easier!!
I have been frequenting Maltose Express for about three years now. If you have never had the opportunity to see a real Home Brew store, make the effort to see this one in Monroe... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 1999
My door to the rewarding world of homebrewing
The book and its creators are an inspiratoin to me. I was floundering in the frindge world of homebrewing when I met the authors in their store in CT. Read more
Published on 30 May 1999
Excellent book; super tips, recipes in standard format
Clonebrews is a very well-written book for all levels of brewers. The genius of the book is that most or all recipes are designed to use light or extra light malt, thereby... Read more
Published on 4 May 1999
Well written offering something for everyone.
I'm itching to try some of these recipes out, they look well researched and should appeal to both beginners and seasoned brewers wanting to emulate their favourite brew.
Published on 14 Feb 1999
What great recipes for the homebrewer in this book.
The recipe instructions in this book are clearly written. The finished products (that I've tried so far) are as good as the beers (or better than) the beers that they imitate.
Published on 20 Jan 1999
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