Brewing Literature

I haven't read Garezt, except for excerpts. But seriously, the IPA book book tells you more bout using hops in beer construction than the Hops book? That's not the way I remember them.

 

I found the Hops book to be structured and written more like journalism than a practical brewing guide. Steele's book is about half history and love letter to hops, but the discussion on water chemistry and the recipes for well known IPAs made it more valuable for me at the time. I was expecting more from Hops, but it didn't deliver the kind of coherent, clear how-to that both Yeast and Water provided in every section. I'm not alone in this. The Amazon reviews are mixed with some readers who loved it and others who found it lacking. I'm in the latter group because I need more technical information about preserving aroma, water chemistry, hop pairings in beers, and modern technology that can be used at the home brew scale. I think one could get most of that from themadfermentationist.com for free. After reading Brew Like A Monk I thought there would be more of the sage advice and secrets like he got from the Trappists.

 

Plenty of useful technical information in the Stan Hieronymus book. I also greatly enjoyed the extensive footnoting of technical reports in each Chapter. The Bibliography is 14 pages long; the Mitch Steele IPA book's bibliography is 6 pages long.

Why anybody would assert that the Hops book has insufficient technical information is a mystery to me.

Cheers!

 

Yes, it's worth the read. I'd have to skim through the book tonight after work to elaborate.
I find it easier to remember books not worth reading, this one did not make the do not read list.

 

The books I return to (not including How to Brew & Brewing Classic Styles, which should be on everyone's book shelf) are:

Principles of Brewing Science
Yeast
Radical Brewing
Wild Brews
Lambic
BLAM
Farmhouse Ales
American Sour Beers