How to Brew: Everything You Need To Know To Brew Beer Right The First Time

I have made two batches since I bought this book, and they have both come out excellent. I have the "homebrew bible" and while it is a good book, How to Brew just explained things in a way that made me relax about the beer I was brewing. It explains in a more consice way when TO worry about sanitation, and when NOT TO. Overall this is an excellent purchase!

I have to say this is the best book for anyone interested in brewing. Great for the novice and more advanced home brewer.

I originally read the first edition of this book on his website for free. If you can't lay hands on this book, it's well worth it to get what information you can from this book at www.howtobrew.com.

However, if you're a budding zymurgist, or even if you've been brewing for a couple years, this book is well worth the piddly amount they're charging for it. It's saved my butt a couple of times when I've discovered I was low on a certain type of grain or on priming sugar.

Papazian is good, and there are several other books that are good to augment your library, but if you're going to get one book, I highly recommend this one.

Easy to read, informative....it'll help you brew some seriously tasty brews.

As someone who reads technical papers and blogs for a living, I found John Palmer's book to be very easy to read and extremely informative. After reading the book cover to cover, I still find myself going back to it as a "technical reference" book when I have questions about a process or approximation. This book breaks down (pun intended) the mashing process in a way that is both understandable in layman's terms with enough of the real technical process to help you really understand what is going on and why. Through this book I have enlightened many of my friends and coworkers to the joy and wonder of homebrewing.

This is undoubtedly the best single-volume resource for homebrewers. Whether you're just starting out with your first kit extract beer, or whether you're a relatively advanced all-grain brewer, this book is terrific. Lots of illustrated step by step guides to get you going on the right track, and innumerable and invaluable conversion charts, graphs, and other resources that you will return to again and again. Indispensible.