The Naked Brewer: Fearless Homebrewing Tips, Tricks & Rule-breaking Recipes Book

Introduction

You Don't Have to Be a Pro, You Just Have to Relax 1

Our First Foray into Homebrewing 3

How to Use This book 6

1 Beer Refresher Course 11

You'd Be Nothing Without Me: Malt 12

I'm Not Jaded, I'm Bitter: Hops 15

Where the Action Is: Yeast 18

Water, You've Heard of It 21

All Beer is an Ale or a Lager 22

What's Your Type? Beer Styles 23

2 Become the Brewer 25

Brewing Beer in the Real World 25

Why We Brew Smaller 26

So, How is it Done? 27

How to Bottle (So You Can Drink Your Beer) 36

Beer Stats: ABVs, IBUs, OGs, FGs, Ls, and SRMs 39

Your Homebrew Kit 42

Brewing Vocabulary 47

3 June 53

Summer English Pale 54

West Coast Hopped-Up Pale 59

Black Smoke Pale 63

Black Smoke Pale Split Pea and Ham Soup 68

4 July 70

Traditional Bavarian Hefeweizen 71

Poor Man's Provence Lavender Wit 76

Sisters of Summer Tripel 81

Baby Arugula Summer Salad with Sliced Pears and Crumbled Goat Cheese in a Honey-Hefeweizen Vinaigrette 87

5 August 89

Crisp Summer Kölsch 90

Honey Chamomile Blonde 96

Lemon Verbena Basil Wheat 101

Lemon Verbena Basil Beer-Marinated Chicken 106

6 September 107

Just One Hop Simcoe IPA 109

Just One Hop Cascade IPA 114

East India Pale Ale 118

East India Pale Ale Vegetarian Curry 126

7 October 128

Der Nackte Brauer Festbier (The Naked Brewer Festbier) 129

Imperial Blood Red 134

Controversial Pumpkin Ale 138

Controversial Pumpkin Cheesecake with Spent Grain Crust 144

8 November 146

Pecan Pie Brown Ale 147

Cranberry Belgian Pale 153

Sage Chestnut ESB 158

Sage Chestnut ESB Stuffing 163

9 December 165

Christmas Spiced Porter 166

Fig and Clove Dubbel 172

Alpine Juniper Braggot 177

Fig and Clove Dubbel Chutney 183

10 January 184

Berliner Weisse 185

Zee Russian Imperial Stout 190

Scandalous Hard Apple Cider 195

Zee Russian Imperial Stout Beer Affogato 200

11 February 201

Stupid Cupid's Bittersweet Chocolate Stout 202

Crescent City Café au Lait Stout 207

Groom's Scotch Whisky Wee Heavy 214

Crescent City Café au Lait Stout Braised Pork 219

12 March 221

Dry Irish Stout 222

Tropical Belgian-Style IPA 227

Biére de Mars 232

Dry Irish Stout Oatmeal Cookies 237

13 April 239

Saison Classique avec Miele 240

Rosemary Laurel Savory Saison 245

Dark and Stormy Witbier 250

Mussels Steamed in Saison Classique avec Miele 255

14 May 257

Brandied Apricot Cream Ale 261

Decadent Dunkelweizen 266

Fruity Faux Lambic 271

Roast Duck with Sour Cherry Lambic Sauce 277

Appendixes

I Glossary 279

II Homebrew Resources: Your Lifeline 289

III Hop Chart 293

IV Malt Chart 295

V Yeast Chart 299

Index 305