Comments on: The home brewer’s bible: The New Complete Joy to Home Brewing http://beerismypoison.com/home-brewing/the-home-brewers-bible-the-new-complete-joy-to-home-brewing/ Love beer and brewing! Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: steve http://beerismypoison.com/home-brewing/the-home-brewers-bible-the-new-complete-joy-to-home-brewing/comment-page-1/#comment-17 steve Fri, 08 May 2009 12:22:36 +0000 http://beer.local/?p=66#comment-17 <p>Thanks for the very helpful info, Brian!</p> <p>I think I will stick with a simple extract brew for my first go, something lighter. I'm sure you're right, that I'll be much better off getting the hang of the other details, without having to worry about my ingredients so much.</p> <p>A copper wort chiller, huh? So my guess is that it quickly cools the wort so you can transfer to the fermenter a bit easier and more quickly. I wonder what other benefits there are from using a wort chiller. Does it possibly help maintain keep the flavors together, fresher even?</p> Thanks for the very helpful info, Brian!

I think I will stick with a simple extract brew for my first go, something lighter. I’m sure you’re right, that I’ll be much better off getting the hang of the other details, without having to worry about my ingredients so much.

A copper wort chiller, huh? So my guess is that it quickly cools the wort so you can transfer to the fermenter a bit easier and more quickly. I wonder what other benefits there are from using a wort chiller. Does it possibly help maintain keep the flavors together, fresher even?

]]> By: Brian http://beerismypoison.com/home-brewing/the-home-brewers-bible-the-new-complete-joy-to-home-brewing/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Brian Thu, 07 May 2009 20:20:27 +0000 http://beer.local/?p=66#comment-16 <p>I've been brewing for over two years now, and I still use The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. It's a great reference book.</p> <p>Even though it does feel somewhat like cheating, I recommend sticking to extract for the first four or five batches you brew. There are a lot of little details to figure out in the process, and staying simple is a good thing until you get the hang of it. It doesn't take long and within a few batches you'll feel a lot more comfortable.</p> <p>Partial mash is a good way to get the experience of using grains without all the time and extra equipment needed to go all-grain.</p> <p>One other thing, once you're ready to spend a little more on equipment, the single best investment I made was to get a copper wort chiller. Did that make my life easier!</p> <p>Good luck and happy brewing!</p> I’ve been brewing for over two years now, and I still use The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. It’s a great reference book.

Even though it does feel somewhat like cheating, I recommend sticking to extract for the first four or five batches you brew. There are a lot of little details to figure out in the process, and staying simple is a good thing until you get the hang of it. It doesn’t take long and within a few batches you’ll feel a lot more comfortable.

Partial mash is a good way to get the experience of using grains without all the time and extra equipment needed to go all-grain.

One other thing, once you’re ready to spend a little more on equipment, the single best investment I made was to get a copper wort chiller. Did that make my life easier!

Good luck and happy brewing!

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