Brew Your Own, launched in 1995, is the largest circulation magazine for people interested in making their own great beer at home. Every issue includes recipes, how-to projects, and expert advice to help you brew world-class beer. Regular columns include troubleshooting common problems with Mr. Wizard, brewing a classic beer style in Style Profile, homebrew recipes for your favorite commercial beers in The Replicator, refining your brewing with Techniques, building brewing gadgets in Projects, and hearing tips, stories, and recipes from fellow homebrewers in Homebrew Nation. Brew Your Own publishes eight issues annually from offices in Manchester Center, VT. The magazine’s online home, [...], offers a selection of the magazine’s stories, projects, and recipes, as well as web-only features.

Contents
INTRODUCTION
C H A P T E R
HOW TO HOMEBREW
HOMEBREWING BASICS
Cleaning and Sanitation
Equipment Basics
BREWING WITH EXTRACT
Malt Extract Brew Day
ALL-GRAIN BREWING
All-Grain Brew Day
Mash Methods
Brew-in-a-Bag
FERMENTATION
AND CONDITIONING
Pitching Rates
Pitching Temperature and Control
Stuck Fermentations
BOTTLING
Racking and Transferring
How to Bottle
Priming
KEGGING
How to Keg
Balancing Your Draft System
MALT
The Process of Malting in a Nutshell
Base Malts
Specialty Malts
Selecting Malt: Taste It!
Storage and Freshness
ADJUNCTS
Kettle Adjuncts
Mashable Adjuncts
HOPS
Hop Basics
Buying and Storing Hops
Hop Varieties
HOPPING METHODS
First Wort Hopping
Hop Stands, Whirlpool Hopping, and Hop Bursting
Dry Hopping
YEAST
Choosing Yeast Strains
Yeast Pitching Rates
Making a Yeast Starter
Reusing Yeast
Collecting Yeast from Bottles
WATER
The Short Course on Water Treatment
FRUIT AND SPICE
Fruits for Brewing
Spices for Brewing
WOOD AND SOUR BEER
Using Oak
Sour Beer
RECIPES
HOMEBREW RECIPE DESIGN
The Two Schools of Beer Recipe Design
A Structured Approach to Beer Recipe Design
Judging and Improving Your Recipes
CLONING RECIPES
What You’ll Need
Where to Get the Information
In the Cloning Lab
Assessing the Clone
THE CLONE RECIPES
Alaskan Brewing Company: Smoked Porter
The Alchemist: Heady Topper
AleSmith Brewing Company: Old Numbskull
Allagash Brewing Company: Allagash White
Anchor Brewing Company: Anchor Steam Beer
Anderson Valley Brewing Company: Blood Orange
Gose
Bell’s Brewery: Hopslam Ale
Bell’s Brewery: Oberon
Bierstadt Lagerhaus: Slow Pour Pils
Boulevard Brewing Company: Tank 7
Brasserie d’Orval S.A.: Orval Trappist Ale
Brewery Ommegang: Hennepin Farmhouse Saison
Brooklyn Brewery: Black Ops
Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat: Duvel
Deschutes Brewery: Black Butte Porter
Devils Backbone Brewing Company: Vienna Lager
Devil’s Purse Brewing Company: Handline Kölsch
Drekker Brewing Company: Hyper Scream
Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Pivo Pils
Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Velvet Merlin
Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing Company: Funnel Cake
Founder’s Brewing Company: Breakfast Stout
Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC: Fuller’s ESB
Great Divide Brewing Company: Yeti Imperial Stout
Great Lakes Brewing Company: Christmas Ale
Guinness & Company: Guinness Draught
Heretic Brewing Company: Evil Twin
Hill Farmstead Brewery: Everett
Icarus Brewing Company: Pineapple Hindenburg
Jack’s Abby Brewing: Hoponius Union
Jackie O’s Brewery: Brick Kiln
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales: La Roja
The Kernel Brewery: Export India Porter
Knotted Root Brewing Company: Perpetually
Unimpressed
Launch Pad Brewery: Cape Canaveral Key Lime Saison
Lawson’s Finest Liquids: Double Sunshine
Left Hand Brewing Company: Oktoberfest
The Lost Abbey Brewing Company: Ten
Commandments
New Belgium Brewing Company: Fat Tire Amber Ale
Paulaner Brauerei: Paulaner Hefe-Weizen
Pedal Haus Brewery: Bourbon Barrel-Aged Quadrupel
Pelican Brewing Company: Kiwanda Cream Ale
Plzensky Prazdroj’s: Pilsner Urquell Clone
Revolution Brewing: Louie Louie
Russian River Brewing Company: Pliny the Elder
Sapwood Cellars Brewery: Cheater X
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Celebration
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: Pale Ale
Southern Tier Brewing Company: Crème Brûlée
Surly Brewing Company: Bender
Tiny Rebel Brewing Company: Bitter Sweet Symphony
Traquair House Brewery: Traquair House Ale
Trillium Brewing Company: Fort Point Pale Ale
RESOURCES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR