Gear up with the right equipment and take the hassle out of homebrewing. Karl E. Lutzen and Mark Stevens guide you through the best tools for all your brewing needs, from DIY homemade versions of commercial brewery equipment to simple devices that make brewing easier and safer. Learn which gadgets and gizmos work best for measuring, mashing, bottling, kegging, and more. With the proper tools close at hand you'll save both time and money, leaving you free to focus on enjoying your homebrewed beers.
There's nothing that quite matches the satisfaction of having just the right tool or equipment to perform a task, and brewing tools are no exception, especially when you've created or adapted them yourself. Homebrewing authors Karl F. Lutzen and Mark Stevens offer great ideas, from home-sized versions of commercial brewery equipment to simple gadgets that make brewing easier or safer. To help brewers choose the best tools, they offer a balanced evaluation of the advantages and drawbacks of each. Brew Ware contains step-by-step projects and devices for: - Ingredient processing and storage - Working with wort - Chilling and aerating wort - Fermenting - Measuring - Bottling - Kegging - Mashing Foreword Introduction 1 The Home Brewery 2 Building a Home Brewery 3 Tools 4 Grain Mills 5 Mashing, Lautering, and Sparging 6 Brewpots and the Boil 7 Chilling the Wort 8 Fermenters 9 Bottling 10 Kegging 11 Growing and Drying Hops 12 Yeast Culturing Afterword Appendix A: Building a Motorized Mill Appendix B: Metric Conversion Appendix C: Suppliers Glossary Further Reading Index
