Standards of Brewing: Formulas for Consistency and Excellence

by Charles W. Bamforth

This book is for all brewers, whether they consider brewing to be art or science. Its simple aim is to highlight what measurements (the numbers) can do to produce product consistency and excellence, by achieving control over raw materials and the brewing process.

Genres: Brewing, Beer

Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

Reviews

[Matthew Vallely · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had a very difficult time feeling motivated to get through this book. As I learned towards the end, I was most interested in learning about Quality Assurance as related to the Brewhouse and Cellar, and less so for all of the raw materials and adjacent parts of the process. This made the bulk of the book rather hard to push through. I definitely learned a handful of new things, but found myself bored for the majority of it since I have learned most of that stuff already. I’ll take away a few tidbits of new information, particularly some equations that will serve useful for brewhouse calculations. On a positive note, I did learn how important a strict quality regime is for a successful brewery, It just isn’t so glamorous to read about. So I guess the purpose of the book was served, it just wasn’t so exciting to me to read through.