Recipe Formulation Literature Recommendations (artistic perspective)

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  1. InVinoVeritas

    InVinoVeritas Initiate (0) Apr 16, 2012 Wisconsin

    I’m flying through Brewing Classic Styles. It’s a GREAT reference book, but not what I expected. What I’m after is more of a philosophical understanding of recipe formulation. I’ve read Radical Brewing, which I felt had a little of those, but more of ideas surrounding unusual ingredients. Perhaps something like step 1: develop a recipe vision statement, step 2: understand raw ingredients / flavor profiles and step 3: use ingredients knowledge to build a recipe that aligns to the vision.

    What book/s would you recommend? Should I jump to the Brewing Elements Series?
     
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  2. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    Ray Daniels' book Designing Great Beers may be what you are seeking? It is a well written book that goes into the ingredients and process of making a number of beer styles. The book is a bit dated (my book was published in 1996). The one thing that I was disappointed in this book was that it did not cover any Belgian beer styles.

    Cheers!
     
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  3. telejunkie

    telejunkie Savant (1,107) Sep 14, 2007 Vermont

    sounds like you maybe ready for your vision quest...I've only done the cursory read of the brewing element series, but all of them so far have been very well researched and written. Have you picked up a copy of Designing Great Beers? Also Jamil has his style profile articles in BYO put together into a magazine 30 Great Beer Styles which is like Brewing Classic Styles taken another step or two in recipe formulation and history of the style.
    After that, then it depends on what styles you want to hone in on. Belgian series of books were all very good, Mitch Steele's IPA was very good...that's about the extent of my Brewers Publications books that i've gone through.
     
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  4. BrewGator

    BrewGator Initiate (0) Dec 17, 2009 North Carolina

    I would recommend Brewing Better Beer by Gordon Strong. The layout of the book is almost exactly what you are describing.
     
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