The Homebrewer's Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Making Your Own Beer from Scratch

by Marika Josephson, Aaron Kleidon, Ryan Tockstein

The complete resource for brewing beer with farmed and foraged ingredients, featuring over 50 recipes

Forget The revolution in craft beer is taking place in gardens, farmer’s markets, and deep in the woods outside rural towns across the country. It’s beer that offers a sense of place, incorporating locally sourced and seasonally harvested ingredients into traditional (and untraditional) farmhouse-style beers. The Homebrewer's Almanacis a practical guide for those who are interested in incorporating fresh and foraged ingredients into their beer, written by the brewers of one of the country’s hottest new breweries. Recipes Potato Vienna Lager Chanterelle Mushroom SaisonNettle Spicebush AleSumac Sour AleBasil Rye PorterEach chapter offers an overview of what plants to look for in your region, as well as how to harvest and how to preserve them. A brewing guide in the modern DIY tradition with a touch of the retro farmer’s almanac, The Homebrewer's Almanac will be a staple in homebrewers’ libraries and a source of year-round inspiration.

Genres: Brewing, Nonfiction, Beer

367 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 13, 2016

Reviews

[Mr E Thor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very impressive. You feel like the recipes here have really been test driven. The other great book about using plants in beer: Sacred Herbs etc, is very complete in its scope but verging on mystical and the recipes are almost certainly not tested to a great degree. So in order to get a feel for the ingredients, you need to be very cautious with your additions. Almanac feels lived in and I'd have no issues with picking the book up and brewing something from it.

[Jm Rollins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very inspiring and largely informative, my big complaint with the book was where the authors commented that they had not tried brewing a beer with green tomatoes, and yet the book contains a recipe for a Green Tomato Saison...

Either the text needs to be edited (if they have brewed the beer) or they're including untested recipes in the book (which make me hesitant to trust the rest of their recipes).

[Mitch Romig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very informative book but I have one major issue. The text covers brewing with a lot of unique ingredients in unique ways but the photos only show those ingredients, not their use in brewing or the finished beer.