The Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Hops, Malts, and Brewing Herbs: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply (Back-To-Basics) (Back to Basics Growing)

Peragine, John N

ISBN 10: 1601383533 / ISBN 13: 9781601383532

Verlag: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc., 2011

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Titel: The Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Hops,...

Verlag: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Very Good

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Beer is one of the most complex alcoholic drinks, with some beers having more than 30 ingredients and most requiring the proper mixture and amounts of the right ingredients to taste just right. If you are considering creating your own beer, one of the most fun and effective ways of acquiring all of these ingredients is to grow your own hops, malts, and herbs and experiment with mixing them together. But, with more than 50 types of hops alone and hundreds of brewing herbs at your disposal, knowing what you should grow and how to grow it can be quite difficult.

This book will guide prospective brew masters through the process of growing their own brewing ingredients - from inception to harvesting. You will learn the advantages to growing your own beer materials, starting with the control you have over the maturity, strength, types, and volume of those materials. You will learn how to home grow your own hops, with detailed instructions and information about the taste and effect of more than a dozen different strains. You will also learn which grains and malts are used in beer making and how you can grow your own depending on your needs and location. You will learn how to concoct your own brewing herbs and combine everything into the ideal mixtures to form your own beer.

Beer experts - from professional brew masters to backyard microbrewers - have been interviewed and asked how to best utilize these methods, and their insights have been provided to assist you with the complex process of beer production. You will learn the proper measurements and conversions for everything you will make and will be given a source list for every possible supply that might be needed. Finally, you will be provided with a list of the top homegrown recipes for beer available, allowing you to create and enjoy your very own brews in the comfort of your home.

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John was born in Miami, Florida in 1970. He grew up in the Tampa Bay area, but attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, in Winston Salem NC, for High School. He attended Florida State University and got a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Appalachian State University. In August of 2007, he took the plunge. John had been a social worker in child protective services for far too many years, and had been toying with the idea of being a writer. He had written for a few national magazines and received positive responses for his work. He decided to quit social work and took a chance at writing full time. Luck was on his side, as his first year he was signed to write seven books for Atlantic Publishing Company. Since then he has been writing for a number of magazines including Herb Companion, Precognito, and Winemaker Magazine as well as freelance work to create workbooks, ebooks, articles, ghost write books, blogs and much more. He is now working full time filling requests and hope to get some fiction completed and published this coming year. He freelanced for the New York Times, Bloomberg News, and Reuters. He is working on an upcoming book about his adventures covering the John Edward's trial."