Show your beer library

Craft Beer World is not super informative, essentially just a coffee table book. Brewmaster's Table definitely a worthwhile read though, especially if your looking into the Cicerone program or something similar.

 

Haven't quite read all of 'em yet, but working on it. The notebooks on the left are my homebrewing journals.

 

Pretty modest but got the staples

 

Palmer - How to Brew
Holl - The American Craft Beer Cookbook
Schultz - Beer, Food, and Flavor
Papazian - The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
Markowski - Farmhouse Ales
Mosher - Tasting Beer and Radical Brewing
Beechum and Conn - Experimental Homebrewing
Hieronymous - Brew Like a Monk
Tonsmiere - American Sour Beers
Bamforth - Scientific Principles of Malting and Brewing

Somewhere is an Allagash book on food pairings mainly because its Allagash.

Subscribed to BA and How to Brew, but will probably substitute AHA membership fir one of those.

Countless articles collected and saved, recipes, newsletter and blog subscriptions. I find Brulosophy to be a fantastic resource and a sounding board for challenging the "but we've always done it this way" mentality.. To me, all that stuff counts as library since it is all reference material. Also some indespensible personal correspondence with @JackHorzempa and Bill Pierce.

 

Doesn't include the stash of back-issues from: BA Magazine, Zymurgy, and Brew Your Own.



(So many more books to acquire and so much more to learn.) I also grow hops in my back yard (Centennial) and the Homegrown Hops book was extremely helpful in that unchartered water!

 

Here is a shot of me in my beer distrib office in the 'Library of Information' almost 10 years ago...

 

Of course, forgot to mention the big box of Zymurgy and BA issues. I don't get BYO, though ... is that worthwhile on top of the others?

 

BYO has some good issues but I like how Zymurgy really gets into the nuts and bolts of brewing. If I had to make a choice between the two ... Zymurgy. ( And nice beer home library you've built! )

 

A few of these are books on distilling and spirits, but it's mostly beer.

 

Does 1 book make a beer library? I have a bunch of really good cook books though, John Besh is my favorite but I have a couple of baking ones, not to mention an autographed Jim Dodge one. I also studied under the guy who's picture is on the cover of the older version of The Professional Chef. I like to cook/bake almost as much as I like good beer.

 

I'm more of a drinker and less of a reader.

 

This is most of my books. Though they are two deep on many of the shelves.









Plus around 150 digital books.