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The Brewers Association’s Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery

Starting a successful brewery takes more than heart. The Brewers Association’s Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery delivers essential industry knowledge to brewers aspiring to chart their own course. While America’s craft beer renaissance continues,…Read more

2013-2014 Brewers’ Resource Directory (BRD)

The 2013-2014 Brewers’ Resource Directory (BRD) is a comprehensive industry reference for the worldwide brewing industry.  The BRD features lists of U.S. breweries, industry suppliers, control agencies, U.S. and international brewing associations, states brewers’ guilds,…Read more

For the Love of Hops: The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops

For the Love of Hops expertly explains the nature of hops, their origins, and how brewers maximize their positive attributes throughout the brewing process. Author Stan Hieronymus starts with the basics of hop chemistry, then…Read more

Mitch Steele

Mitch Steele is the brewmaster for Stone Brewing Co. Since graduating from UC Davis in 1984 with a fermentation science degree, he has brewed at some of the largest and smallest breweries in the world.…Read more

IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes and the Evolution of India Pale Ale

Explore the evolution of one of craft beer’s most popular styles, India pale ale. Loaded with brewing tips from some of the country’s best brewers, IPA covers techniques from water treatment to hopping procedures. Included are 48…Read more

David Sutula

Author of Mild Ale, David Sutula started homebrewing in college. After a stint as a professional brewer, Sutula opened his own ad agency and after 7 years of paying for beer finally went back to homebrewing.…Read more

George Fix

The late George Fix will be remembered as a pioneer in finite element methods and phase field methods, and for numerous other contributions to numerical analysis and applied mathematics. George had a second concurrent and distinguished career as a practitioner and scientist in the brewing of beer. …Read more

Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew

Homebrewing gurus John Palmer and Jamil Zainasheff give guidance to brewers interested in reproducing 80-plus competition styles and classic beer styles for their own enjoyment or to enter into competitions.…Read more

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

How to Brew is the definitive book on making quality beers at home from simple instructions for making your first beer to the seasoned home brewer working with all-grain, this book has something for you. …Read more

New Brewing Lager Beer: The Most Comprehensive Book for Home and Microbrewers

New Brewing Lager Beer is the classic treatise on brewing lagers, offering a thorough yet practical education on the theory and techniques and all-grain brewing.…Read more

Pete Slosberg

He has been called a brewing maverick, a brilliant entrepreneur, an iconoclast, and a marketing icon. Pete Slosberg founded Pete’s Brewing Company in 1986, distributing Pete’s Wicked Ale.…Read more

Jamil Zainasheff

Jamil Zainasheff has co-authored two books, Brewing Classic Styles (Brewer’s Publications, 2007) and Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation (Brewers Publications, 2010). Jamil most recently opened Heretic Brewing Company, a 30-barrel brewery in the East Bay region of California’s San Fr…Read more

Chris White

Chris White earned his Ph.D. on yeast biochemistry at UC San Diego. He founded White Labs as a yeast and fermentation laboratory for brewers in 1995 and co-authored Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation with Jamil Zainasheff in 2010.…Read more

Dick Cantwell

Dick Cantwell is a pioneer of Seattle craft brewing. Since 1996 he has been head brewer at Elysian Brewing Company, which now has three pub locations and a production facility. His experience founding both brewpubs…Read more

Stephen Beaumont

Stephen Beaumont is one of the world’s most authoritative voices on beer today, as well as a widely recognized writer on spirits, food, cocktails and travel. He is the author of five books on beer including Stephen Beaumont’s Brewpub Cookbook (Brewers Publications, 1998).…Read more

Dr. Michael J. Lewis

Professor Emeritus Michael J. Lewis, Ph.D. F.I. Brew. conducted the program in Brewing Science at the University of California, Davis since 1962. He accepted emeritus status in 1995 but remains active in the profession; he is the academic director of brewing programs in University of California Davi…Read more

John Palmer

How to Brew author John Palmer was born and raised in Midland, Michigan. He is author of the bestseller How to Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Beer Right the First Time and co-author with friend and homebrewer Jamil Zainasheff for Brewing Classic Styles.…Read more

Darryl Richman

Darryl Richman’s articles have been published in the pages of Zymurgy, Beer and Brewing series books, Brewing Techniques and The Celebrator. He is author of Bock, one of Brewers Publications’ Classic Beer Style Series.…Read more

Lucy Saunders

Lucy Saunders is the author of The Best of American Beer and Food and editor of beercook.com. She thinks of beer as food and has championed the presence of craft beer at the American table for over 20 years. She now lectures and conducts tasting classes at cooking schools, retailers and non-profit g…Read more

Horst Dornbusch

Horst Dornbusch is a well-known consultant in the international brewing industry as well as a leading author and speaker about beer. He has written three books: Bavarian Helles (2000), Altbier (1999), and PROST! The Story of German Beer (1997) for Brewers Publications and recently was co-editor of …Read more

Eric Warner

Eric holds the degree ‘Diplom-Braumeister’ from the Technical University of Munich at Weihenstephan. Author of German Wheat Beer, a Classic Beer Style Series book, Eric worked in the US and in Europe at several breweries and visited scores of others. Most notably he worked at Brewery Widmann a…Read more

Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow is the author of Wild Brews: Beer Beyond the Influence of Brewers Yeast, as well as a free-lance beer writer. Most recently, he won a gold medal in the American-Belgo category at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival while collaborating with Haymarket Pub & Brewery in Chicago.…Read more

Dave Miller

Dave Miller brewed his first batch of homebrew in 1975 and won Homebrewer of the Year when his Dutch Pilsner was judged Best of Show in 1981. Miller is author of Home Brewing for Americans, the first American book to deal with advanced all-grain brewing techniques. He also authored Continental Pils…Read more

Greg Noonan

Greg Noonan was a pioneer in home-brewing methodology, an acclaimed brewing author, a co-founder of one of the first brewpubs in New England, an innovator in professional brewing techniques and a truly great publican. Noonan authored New Brewing Lager Beer for Brewers Publications.…Read more

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Dan Rabin

Dan Rabin is an award-winning freelance beer and travel journalist from Boulder, Colorado. He is co-author of the Dictionary of Beer and Brewing (Brewers Publications, 1998) and numerous magazines, papers and journals as well as being an award-winning homebrewer.…Read more

Stan Hieronymus

Stan Hieronymus is a professional journalist and amateur brewer who has made beer his beat since 1993. The editor at Realbeer.com, he’s written hundreds of articles for periodicals, co-authored four books with his wife, Daria Labinsky, written Brewing with Wheat (2010) and Brew like a Monk (2005) …Read more

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About Us

Brewers Publications (BP) supports the mission of the Brewers Association by publishing books of enduring value for amateur and professional brewers as well as titles that promote understanding and appreciation of American craft beer. BP…Read more

Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation

Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation is a resource for brewers of all experience levels. The authors adeptly cover yeast selection, storage and handling of yeast cultures, how to culture yeast, the art of rinsing/washing yeast cultures and much more.…Read more

The Best of American Beer and Food: Pairing & Cooking with Craft Beer

Explore the art of pairing flavorful beers with specific foods and experiment with recipes that incorporate beer, using the various flavors available from today’s ales and lagers as food flavor components.…Read more

Brew Like a Monk: Trappist, Abbey and Strong Belgian Ales and How to Brew Them

Brew Like a Monk delves into monastic brewing, detailing this rich-flavored region of the beer world. It also examines methods for brewing these unique ales suited to commercial and amateur brewers. …Read more

Wild Brews: Beer Beyond the Influence of Brewer’s Yeast

When brewers allow organisms other than Saccharomyces yeast to influence the taste of their ales, a new family of flavors enters the beer vocabulary. Wild Brews explores the world of Lambics, Flanders red and brown beers…Read more

Farmhouse Ales: Culture and Craftsmanship in the Belgian Tradition

Farmhouse Ales defines these Saison and Biere de Garde brews in modern and historical terms while guiding today’s brewers toward credible and enjoyable reproductions of these old world classics.…Read more

Radical Brewing: Recipes, Tales and World-Altering Meditations in a Glass

Recipes, tales and world-altering mediations in a glass! Veteran brewer, American Homebrewers Association Board of Advisor and creative genius Randy Mosher delivers an entertaining look at beer history and culture along with a no-nonsense approach to the art of innovative brewing.…Read more

The Compleat Meadmaker: Home Production of Honey Wine From Your First Batch to Award-winning Fruit and Herb Variations

Home production of honey wine from your first batch to award-winning fruit and herb variations.…Read more

Standards of Brewing: A Practical Approach to Consistency and Excellence

Standards of Brewing covers the principles and practices of brewery quality so that brewers can establish or audit their own programs and procedures for producing consistent, high quality beer.…Read more

Bike & Brew America: Midwest Region

VeloPress’s Bike and Brew America series pairs a region’s best mountain bike trails with its finest brewpubs. Each chapter is organized by state, with this edition covering North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.…Read more

Bike & Brew America: Rocky Mountain Region

Bike & Brew America: Rocky Mountain covers Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana and each itinerary guarantees a great day of biking and a great night of eating and drinking.…Read more

Independence Days

In each of the stories, the author brings to life ordinary experiences that are universal. At their center is one peripheral, almost subliminal but unifying element. Beer. It is the catalyst that forges friendships, diffuses,…Read more

Principles of Brewing Science: A Study of Serious Brewing Issues – 2nd Edition

Principles of Brewing Science is an indispensable reference which applies the practical language of science to the art of brewing.…Read more

Beer in America: The Early Years 1587-1840

A definitive and fresh account of the role of beer in our country’s founding and formative years. Beginning with the colonial era and ending with America’s emergence as an industrial power.…Read more

Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation

Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers explores the mystery, folklore, and healing power of ancient fermentation. This is the first comprehensive book ever written on the sacred aspects of indigenous, historical psychotropic and herbal healing beers of the world.…Read more

Dictionary of Beer and Brewing (Second Edition)

The Dictionary of Beer and Brewing presents 2,500 technical, historical, and cultural beer-related terms and definitions gathered from around the world.…Read more

Beer for Pete’s Sake: The Wicked Adventures of a Brewing Maverick

Pete Slosberg has given a face to the craft-brewing movement as Pete’s Wicked Ale. But who is Pete really? In Beer for Pete’s Sake, Pete tells all. He talks about his passion for beer (and…Read more

Stephen Beaumont’s Brewpub Cookbook: 100 Great Recipes from 30 Famous North American Brewpubs

Nowhere is the marriage of beer and food sweeter than in the brewpubs of North America. From award-winning writer and author of the best-selling Great Canadian Beer Guide, comes an exceptional cookbook filled with 100 recipes for elegant brewpub cuisine.…Read more

Prost! The Story of German Beer

Trace the 3,000-year-old story of German beer from its turbid beginnings among tribal bands in the forests to the crisp, clean gems we drink today. Discover German beer’s subtle secrets–find out what makes it special and sets it apart.…Read more

A Year of Beer: 260 Seasonal Homebrew Recipes

Use the brewing calendar and 260 homebrew recipes for a wide variety of beer styles at just the right time of year. Compiled by Amahl Turczyn.…Read more

Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles

An indispensable guide intended for brewers interested in formulating their own beers based on classic styles, modern techniques, and their own vision of the perfect beer…Read more

Victory Beer Recipes: America’s Best Homebrew

Brew and enjoy 128 new award-winning recipes from the AHA National Homebrew Competition, 1989 to 1993. From the lively flavor of A Peek Under the Kilt Scotch ale to the sensuous bite of Lady of the Morning continental dark bock, these recipes will thrill your taste buds and tune your brewing skills…Read more

Evaluating Beer

From defining off-flavors to analyzing competition-winning beers, this book will help you develop your tasting and evaluating skills. Evaluating Beers is perfect for beer judges, advanced homebrewers and brewing professionals.…Read more

Brewing Better Beer: Master Lessons for Advanced Homebrewers

Brewing Better Beer is a comprehensive look at technical, practical and creative homebrewing advice from Gordon Strong, three-time winner of the coveted National Homebrew Competition Ninkasi Award. Discover techniques, philosophy, recipes and tips that will help you take your homebrew to the next le…Read more

Smoked Beers: History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style Series, 18)

For centuries smoke-flavored beers survived modernization in a small enclave centered around Bamberg, Germany. Today new examples are being made by brewers throughout the US. Enjoy the history, culture and brewing of these wonderful beers with this informative volume.…Read more

Pale Ale: History, Brewing, Techniques, Recipes (Second Edition)

Never before has the evolution of pale ale been so thoroughly explored. Terry Foster pays proper homage to this distinctive ale and the sub-styles it has spawned. This all-new revised and expanded edition includes a new section on American IPA’s, pale ales and amber ales.…Read more

Mild Ale: History, Brewing, Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style)

The Classic Beer Style Series from Brewers Publications examines individual world-class beer styles, covering origins, history, sensory profiles, brewing techniques and commercial examples.…Read more

Brown Ale: History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes

Brown ale has come a long way since its murky beginnings as the first beer style ever produced. Jam-packed with historical and technical brewing information, Brown Ale is not only an excellent reference, but a fascinating read as well. It is number 14 in Brewers Publications’ Classic Beer Style Seri…Read more

Kolsch: History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes

Kolsch offers in-depth information on the history, flavor profile, brewing methods, recipes and ingredients of this delicate golden ale. Warner includes some tried-and-true recipes, and a listing of where to go in Cologne, Germany, to enjoy an authentic “Kolsch experience.”…Read more

Altbier: History, Brewing Techniques and Recipes

Altbier is considered Germany’s oldest and most famous beer style. This book explains how monks and nuns brewed it in Düsseldorf centuries ago, and how to brew one today. Altbier covers brewing processes, flavor profile, recipes and much more.…Read more

Barley Wine: History, Brewing Techniques and Recipes

Learn the brewing secrets for hearty barley wines. Discover its rich history. Find out why it’s called a “wine.” Includes barley wine recipes from some of the industry’s most respected brewers. The eleventh title in Brewers Publications’ critically acclaimed Classic Beer Style Series.…Read more

Stout (Classic Beer Style Series)

In Stout, Michael Lewis, Ph.D, traces the changing view of this popular beer style from a medicinal tonic to its glorified position in today’s beer world. Lewis covers the style completely – from history and commercial examples to recipes for home and professional brewing.…Read more

Bock (Classic Beer Style Series)

A comprehensive look at this once-forgotten beer style, Bock (by Darryl Richman), covers the history, style profiles, procedures and recipes of this unique family of beers. You’ll find everything you need to understand, appreciate and brew bock in this book.…Read more

Scotch Ale (Classic Beer Style Series)

In Scotch Ale, Greg Noonan presents keen insights into yeast, hops, malts, water and brewing conditions that will help you achieve a superior batch of Scotch ale.…Read more

German Wheat Beer

Warner, graduate of the prestigious Weihenstephan school of brewing in Germany, guides you through the history, tradition and profiles of wheat beer. This is a thoroughly researched book that teaches history, techniques of brewing and recipe profiles of original wheat beers. It explores this German …Read more

Belgian Ale (Classic Beer Style Series)

Pierre Rajotte has traveled the globe in search of the ultimate brew and found that Belgian ale is the pinnacle of artistic brewing complexity. Discover the importance of sugar, top-fermenting yeasts and Belgian hops to the success of this intricate, traditional ale.…Read more

Porter (Classic Beer Style Series)

A brewing veteran and renowned expert on British beers, Terry Foster has written the only in-depth book on brewing this classic style with modern ingredients and equipment. Porter reviews the history of George Washington’s favorite beer and teaches you how to create this rich, full-bodied ale for y…Read more

Vienna, Marzen, Oktoberfest

A product of the German brewing revolution, Oktoberfest is a sweet, malty lager and a satisfying brew. George Fix, outstanding brewer and author, and Laurie Fix, an active homebrewer and brewing competition judge, have written this well-researched profile of an enjoyable beer style to both drink and…Read more

Continental Pilsner (Classic Beer Style Series)

Considered the father of all lagers, Continental Pilsener changed the course of brewing around the world. Noted author and brewer David Miller examines each country’s version of Pilsener, including ingredients and brewing stages.…Read more

Great Beers of Belgium Sixth Edition

Great Beers of Belgium is a richly detailed examination of Belgian beer and brewing. Michael Jackson’s extraordinary passion for Belgian beer shines through in every aspect of this engaging work from the personal stories of the people behind the beers to the careful descriptions of their flavors. Re…Read more

Brewing with Wheat: The ‘Wit’ and ‘Weizen’ of World Wheat Beer Styles

The “wit” and “weizen” of wheat beers. Author Stan Hieronymus visits the ancestral homes of the world’s most interesting styles—Hoegaarden, Kelheim, Leipzig, Berlin and even Portland, Oregon—to sort myth from fact and find out how the beers are made today. Complete with brewing details and recip…Read more

Geoff Larson

Brewmaster Geoff Larson and wife, Marcy, started Alaskan Brewing Company more than 25 years ago. Most famous for their Alaskan Smoked Porter when it became one of the first commercially available American smoked beers and one of the most award-winning craft beers in the nation. With decades of smok…Read more

Gordon Strong

Brewing Better Beer: Master Lessons for Advanced Homebrewers author, Gordon Strong, is the only three-time winner of the coveted National Homebrew Competition Ninkasi Award. He is president and highest ranking judge in the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP).…Read more

Gregg Smith

Gregg Smith is a noted beer historian and beer styles reviewer. He travels extensively researching, writing and speaking about beer and brewing. He is author of The Beer Enthusiast’s Guide (Storey Communications, 1994) and Beer: A History (Avon Books, 1995), as well as The Beer Drinker’s Bible a…Read more

Ken Schramm

Ken Schramm is a mead maker, musician, fruit grower, baker, brewer, hunter, angler, fly tyer and lover of all things gustatory. He is the author of The Compleat Meadmaker (Brewers Publications, 2003), and has been involved in beverage hobbies since 1988.…Read more

Phil Markowski

Phil Markowski began his professional brewing career in 1989 with the New England Brewing Company of Norwalk, Connecticut. He has been brewmaster at the Southampton Publick House since its inception in 1996. He is the author of Farmhouse Ales, published in 2004 by Brewers Publications.…Read more

Terry Foster

Terry was born and educated in London and holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from London University. He started brewing some fifty years ago, and has been brewing at home ever since. He also initiated the Association of Brewers Classic Beer Styles Series with Pale Ale in 1990. This was followed by P…Read more

Stephen Harrod Buhner

Stephen Harrod Buhner is an Earth Poet and the award-winning author of fifteen books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment and herbal medicine. He is author of Sacred Herbal and Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation.…Read more

Fal Allen

Fal Allen has brewed for the likes of Red Hook, Pike Place, Anderson Valley and a five-year stint in Singapore before coming back to Anderson Valley in 2010. Allen was awarded the Brewers Association’s Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation and Achievement in Craft Brewing in 1999. Fal’s writing …Read more

Charlie Bamforth

Dr. Charlie Bamforth is the Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting & Brewing Sciences at UC Davis. He has been part of the brewing industry for some 33 years, is a prolific author and penned Standards of Brewing for Brewers Publications.…Read more

Amahl Turczyn Sheppach

Amahl Scheppach is a beer enthusiast, traveler, journalist and homebrewer who lives in Lafayette, Colorado. He is a former craft brewer at The Oasis Brewery in Boulder, Colorado, and The Wolf Tongue Brewery in Nederland, Colorado. He compiled A Year of Beer: 260 Seasonal Homebrew Recipes for Brewer…Read more

Ray Daniels

Ray Daniels is the founder and director of the Cicerone Certification Program—the standard for beer sommeliers. Ray is the author, editor or publisher of more than two dozen books on beer and brewing. Examples include his own Designing Great Beers (Brewers Publications, 1998), a classic of U.S. b…Read more

Randy Mosher

Randy Mosher has been writing about beer and brewing since 1989 and is the author of three beer and brewing books: The Brewers Companion (Alephenalia Publications, 1991), Radical Brewing (Brewers Publications, 2004) and Tasting Beer (Storey Publications, 2009), which covers the sensory and stylistic…Read more

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Authors are generally happy to speak at events for your club, organization or company. Due to the number of requests they receive, it’s best to contact them as soon as you are considering their appearance…Read more

Meet the Author

Brewers Publications (BP) seeks out the best authors, brewers and homebrewers to share their expertise on a particular subject. From commercial brewing experience to seasoned and experienced writers and leading homebrewers, BP authors have each…Read more

Contact Us

General Inquiries Brewers Publications Publisher: Kristi Switzer 736 Pearl Street Boulder, CO 80302 1.888.822.6273 Direct to consumer: members.brewersassociation.org/store/ Wholesale Inquiries Non-beer retailers: National Book Network Phone (toll free): 1-800-462-6420 FAX (toll free): 1-800-338-4550 Email: moc.skoobnbnnull@eracremotsuc In…Read more

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Brewers Publications is the largest publisher of contemporary and relevant brewing literature for today’s craft brewers and homebrewers. We seek to do this in a positive atmosphere, create lasting relationships and shared pride in our…Read more

Bavarian Helles (Classic Beer Style Series)

First created in Munich in 1894, Helles is perhaps the most delicate beer imaginable, and must rely on its incredible subtlety to please the palate. Munich’s beer hall helles, the palest of lagers, has almost no nose or up-front bitterness. Straw blonde and topped by a tall, white crown, it is the q…Read more

The Draught Beer Quality Manual

The Draught Beer Quality Manual is the product of the Brewers Association’s Technical Committee’s efforts to improve the quality of beer dispensed to beer drinkers. This manual is available via free download or online viewing and searching at DraughtQuality.org.…Read more