Boulder, CO • May 2, 2017—Fully revised and updated, the latest release from Brewers Publications, How to Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Great Beer Every Time by John Palmer, is the definitive guide to making quality beers at home. A perennial best seller since the release of the 3rd edition in 2006, How to Brew is a must-have to update every new and seasoned brewer’s library.
During his keynote speech at the the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America®, Dick Cantwell, revered brewer and author of The Brewers Association's Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery, shared this great analogy about how brewery innovation and creativity come with practice and experience...
The individual play may be unique and web-gem worthy, but experience and preparation allowed for the possibility of his making the play successfully. He didn’t just make that play. It came from him making a bunch of regular plays since he was four years old. … Making a delicious and eye-opening Double IPA probably means you made a couple pretty good single ones, likely hundreds of time.
—Dick Cantwell
With more than 4,800 breweries in operation in the U.S., the need to consistently deliver quality beer has never been greater. Enter Mary Pellettieri, whose brewing and beverage industry career spans more than two decades. In Quality Management: Essential Planning for Breweries, Mary adeptly covers the ins and outs of building a quality program even though budget and time are a significant factor...
Creating a quality program feels like you have to eat an elephant, but you can take it in small bites. Quality is a journey, so you have to take it as it comes and not feel pressured to do everything all at once. As you long as you keep at it; that's what's critical in quality.
— Mary Pellettieri
This week the fourth edition of How to Brew was proofed and sent to the printer. The official page count is a whopping 608 pages of everything you need to know!
The teasers for How to Brew will start appearing on social media and via email the week of April 24. Stay tuned!
How do you organize your books?
Chronologically?
Autobiographically?
With the cover art categorized by the Standard Reference Method?
Whichever practice brings you a sense of calm, let’s look at this year’s best sellers using everyone’s favorite category of the the Dewey Decimal System, 641.873 for Homebrewing:
641.873 CAN
Released in April, Wood & Beer: A Brewer’s Guide by Dick Cantwell and Peter Bouckaert is like having the Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant of the brewing industry teaching you to blend and barrel-ageing beer. Sure, if you’re a beginner, you may want to practice drills, but once you’ve mastered basic brewing, take your craft to the next level with coopering instruction from these greats.
641.873 DAN
Ray Daniels’ tome Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles continues to be a bestseller, receiving a nearly perfect Amazon rating. Not just a how-to book, Daniels takes a deep dive into 14 beer styles, providing recipes and insights into the nuances of each category.
641.873 HIE
Stan Hieronymus isn’t new to Brewers Publications, but his latest title: Brewing Local: American-Grown Beer takes a look at foraging for brewing ingredients, collecting wild yeast and exploring North America’s brewing history. Stan’s humor and expertise can be found throughout: "Remember: You're still brewing beer … If you kill your neighbor, you won't be able to borrow her lawnmower."
641.873 PAL
It’s not surprising that John Palmer’s perennial classic, How To Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Beer Right the First Time is this year’s most popular title. Celebrating 10 years since its release,How to Brewis undergoing extensive revisions with an enhanced e-book planned for the June 2017 release.
641.873 The Brewing Elements Series: Yeast, Hops, Malt and Water
One could say this four-part brewing series is more popular than George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. But there’s no doubt that yeast, malt, water and hops are the cornerstone of brewing beer (and a much quicker read). The Brewing Elements Series rounds out our 2016 bestseller list with:
Tsundoku is the Japanese word for the acquiring of reading materials followed by letting them pile up and subsequently never reading them.
In this article/interview from OZY.com, it's noted that "2.71 billion physical books were sold in the U.S. alone in 2015, according to Statista. As if every American were reading an average of more than eight books annually."
Alas, Americans must have a significant case of tsundoku.