Zainasheff - Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew

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Brewers Publications

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Copyright 2007 by Brewers Association

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the publisher. Neither the authors, editor nor the publisher assume any responsibility for the use or misuse of information contained in this book.

ISBN: 978-0-937381-92-2 (print)

ISBN: 978-0-9840756-4-5 (ePub)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zainasheff, Jamil, 1961-Brewing classic styles : 80 winning recipes anyone can brew / by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer.

p. cm.

1. Brewing. I. Palmer, John J., 1963- II. Title.

TP570.Z35 2007

641.8'73--dc22

2007029472

Publisher: Ray Daniels

Copy Editing and Index: Daria Labinsky

Production & Design Management: Stephanie Johnson

Cover and Interior Design: Julie Lawrason

Production: Michael Blotz

Cover Photo: Rick Souders, Souders Studios, www.soudersstudios.com

Interior Photos: Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer unless otherwise noted

No work of this sort is created in a vacuum. In my case it was the kindness, generosity, sharing, and love of my family, friends, and the community of brewers that made this possible.

My incredible wife, Liz, and two wonderful daughters, Anisa and Karina, have been very understanding of why Dad spends so much time on his beer stuff. They are always willing to help with odd brewing tasks and travel with me to out-of-the-way places just so I can taste a unique beer. I do love them more than beer, but they never ask me to prove it.

Thanks to Ray Daniels for his landmark book, Designing Great Beers. More than any other book on brewing, it was this book that taught me how to make my own recipes. I never could have written this book without first learning from Ray.

Thanks to those who had the faith in me to speak or write about beer styles. My tremendous fear of saying something wrong on air or in print made me relearn a lot of things about brewing that I only had a passing knowledge of before.

And my friends, my brewing brothers and sisters, you have shared your beers, your homes, your knowledge, and most important to me, your friendship. Thank you for being there for me. If you were the only friends I knew, I would consider myself very lucky.

Jamil Zainasheff

First, I need to thank my wife, Naomi, for suggesting that I write another book. It seemed like a crazy idea at the time, having just finished the previous one, but she knows that I love doing this stuff.

Second, I want to thank Ray Daniels and all my other friends at the American Homebrewers Association and Brewers Publications for all their support and enthusiasm. Being treated like a famous author has its merits, but being accepted as a friend is better.

Finally, thanks to Gordon Strong and the rest of the Beer Judge Certification Program organization for letting us write on their coattails like this. As Jamil and I discussed the concept for the book, we said, Wouldn't it be great if they let us use the current organization and descriptions of the styles, so that we would all be consistent? And they did.

John Palmer

The BJCP Style Guidelines were used in creating the Style at a Glance for each recipe. The BJCP style information is used with permission of the copyright holder, Beer Judge Certification Program Inc. The current version of the style guidelines can be found at the BJCP website, www.bjcp.org.

John: I have been wanting to write a book called How to Brew With Extract for many years, because I feel that extract brewing doesnt get the respect it deserves. I also wanted this book to have some killer recipes for lots of different beers styles, and while my recipes are OK, I wasnt fooling myself into thinking they were stellar. I thought that my friend Jamil could probably help me there, since he is one of the best brewers I know.

Jamil: I hadnt seen John in quite some time when I ran into him at the Great American Beer FestivalSM. As we talked, John mentioned he was preparing to write a book on how to brew great beer with extract. He said he needed a handful of good recipes to include in the book, and I offered to help. Well, even the best laid plans tend to evolve, and this book quickly turned from a book on extract with a few recipes into a recipe book with advice on brewing, applicable to all brewers.

John: At some point in our conversation at the GABF (I think we were over by the Brooklyn Brewery at this point, or maybe it was Dogfish Head), Jamil mentioned, I have a recipe for every style.... Even though I didnt realize it then, this was the turning point of the whole project. I took another sip of beer and said, Cool.

But as we started working on the book, outlining the content and discussing the theme, I quickly realized that great recipes were much more marketable than extract brewing tips, which I had covered fairly well in How to Brew. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of a book that described how to brew a specific recipe for every style in the Beer Judge Certification Program Style Guidelines. I am good at describing the mechanics of brewing, but I am not good at describing the art, the intuition that can be applied to it. From listening to The Jamil Show podcast on The Brewing Network, I knew that Jamil could.

Jamil: Recently someone asked me how long we have been working on this book, and I started thinking back to my first conversations with John. Before I could answer, someone else said, Hes been working on it since he started brewing. Ah yes, that is so true. The recipes in this book are the product of dozens of countries visited, hundreds of batches brewed, and thousands of beers tasted. When I started home-brewing, I set myself the goal of being able to brew a good example of every recognized style in the BJCP. To check on my progress, I entered my beers in a number of competitions. I methodically tweaked and tested each recipe until the beers began to win awards. In fact, every recipe in this book has won a number of awards, some more than others, but all are proven recipes.

Many people wonder why I would be willing to give away my award-winning recipes. Those who taught me to brew all shared a core ethic: If you know something about brewing, you share it with others. It seems to me that all of the best brewers I know are willing to share their recipes and techniques. They hold nothing back. Brewers who feel the need to hide a recipe or other information often only have one or two beers that they can brew well and are afraid to let it go for fear of not finding more good recipes.

Our hope is that you will look at this book as much more than just a collection of recipes, and once you learn from it, you will build upon that knowledge and share it with others. This book is intended as a guide to help you successfully brew the most recognized beer styles in the world. Too many brewers focus on just a handful of their favorite styles and miss out on some really wonderful beer styles. Dont let that happen to you. Please make an effort to brew every style in this book well.