I am new to home brewing and recently brewed my first batch of beer. I made a chinook ipa. I want to brew a stout next. Does anybody have a suggestion for a good recipe book with only stouts in it. Also suggestions for books that would help build my knowledge on brewing would also be good as well. Thanks Andy
I've got and would recommend Randy Mosher's Mastering Homebrew, which seems like a good in-depth introduction. He really goes to town on the creative side of brewing, with lots of great advice about building recipes from scratch, although this has the slight downside that you get a recipe for a roasted-wattleseed brown ale but not, say, a straight APA or a tripel. I make up for that by also owning a copy of Jamil Zainasheff's Brewing Classic Styles, which is basically what it says on the tin - a few sensible tips and a "to-style" recipe for each BJCP-defined style. That would be a good source for a set of stout and porter recipes if you don't want to go all in with a totally specialized book.
All great suggestions so far. At this point you'd probably get the most mileage out of How to Brew. I really like Brewing Classic Styles as a reference to solid, to styles recipes during recipe formulation. Once you have some brews under your belt Gordon Strong's Brewing Better Beer is a very good ready. That book undoubtedly helped me improve my beers from good to award winning.
If you want a pep talk along with your instructions, Papazian’s Joy of Homebrewing. How to Brew is more informative and scientific. I recommend both.
Whatever book it is. After you read it and brew a bunch of beer, go back and read it again, brew more beer, read it again. Amazing on how many more subtle things you’ll pick up. I think I’ve read the water book 4 times, and although so much of it still reads like hieroglyphics to me it’s amazing how much more I pick up every time. Same with Noonan’s lager books
Also, this should help: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/forums/homebrew-recipes.67/?prefix_id=18
Agreed here. I also recommend both of these to get going with brewing, then go for more specialized ones, like Brewing Stouts as mentioned above, then the Water, Hops, Yeast series.
