CAMRA's Brew Your Own British Real Ale: Over 100 Recipes to Try Paperback – October 1, 2014

If you're starting to brew, this book is fantastic. It starts by guiding you through the ingredients and adjuncts, all-grain brewing process, and finish with the recipes.Pros:Easy to understand, easy to read, friendly, concise.Step-by-step guide to brewing from scratch.Easy to read recipes, simple presentation.(for non-us residents) Metric system as primary.Cons:Easy and concise sacrifices depth and details.Little to no explanation on hard, cold measurements and indicatorsFocus on all-grain brewing, lacks the grinding guidelinesOverall is a great book, perfect if you combine it with a couple of youtube videos on brewing.

There is no shortage of books which attempt to replicate commercial beers, and this book is not much more than that. I haven't tried brewing any of the recipes, although I'm sure they really do come close to their commercial counterparts. What I was looking for, though, was very specific details on the technical aspect of cask conditioning ale and the equipment involved. This book does not help much in that regard. It explains cask conditioning as the equivalent of bottle conditioning, but in a 'cask' which it only describes in a page or two.If you are looking for recipes trying to emulate Real British Ale, this is the book. If you are looking for more information on brewing and storing cask conditioned ale, the details are insufficient.

A LOT more actual brewing information than the titles in the Classic Beer Style Series, not very much history. I'm no brewer but this one appears to me to at least come close to having enough information to actually brew these ales. It doesn't have a listing for further reading but still good to have.

I worked in the UK for quite a while and became a lover of British beers. this book from the group CAMRA is helping me make better real ales. The only fault I find is lack of detail in the recipes. It would be nice to know the color levels of the crystal malts as well as the alpha rating of the hops. Overall a pretty good guide.

Good info source for homebrewers. Repetitive as there are not many types of British Ales. Useful to me.

This is a great book if you want to brew really good British Beer ,but it is not for a novice,some brewing experience is required.My first brew is Fullers ESB,it just yummy,I have it on a beer engine.

Quality was exactly as described. Very useful book for real ale recipes

Additional insight to how British Real Ale came to be. This book reinforces general brewing knowledge and encourages production of a fine style of beer. Looking forward to trying some of the great recipes.

Having waited patiently for this latest, 2014, edition, I am frankly disappointed. It's as if somebody who doesn't really know what they are doing has gone to Wheeler (or Wheeler and Protz) earlier works to produce something modern and glossy which doesn't really work. There's a lot of dismissal of factors as unimportant, or a matter of taste, which are them elaborated at length, eg. hop utilisation. Much important stuff is just glossed over eg. culturing yeast. Most disappointing of all is the recipes: Protz went to great length to consult with breweries over the formulation of their recipes and this is reflected in Wheeler's earlier editions. The new recipes are standardised on pale malt, crystal, chocolate and black malt, where black malt appears to be used just for colour adjustment- might as well use caramel. No mention of yeast type in the recipes, either. A great disappointment. Don't waste your money on this edition, try to find an earlier one.

This book contains recipes for all grain homebrewing, although many of the recipes have malt extract versions. It is infomative about the brewing process and how to make better ales and beers in the home environment. Printein 1998, many of the breweries and beers listed had already disappeared and it was a heartening look down memory lane to see some of the those I remember back in the 1960's and to read about some that I had never heard of. When I was a student, beer and breweries, with the relative merits of diverse pubs that kept beers well, was the subject of serious discussion and I can remember many times travelling across london and into the home counties because a pub had been discovered selling real ales in the wood or some such other rarity. Needless to say, I am enjoying the planning and execution of starting to make some of the recipes and, hopefully, enjoying the product. A great book for anyone interested in homebrewing some great ales and beers.

I had heard good things about this book but the reality is over simplified recipes based round a few malts. Worse still is no recipe has a yeast in it which is disgraceful. Yeast has a huge impact on how a beer tastes and feels. Right recipe, wrong yeast won't give you the beer clone you want. I expect I will have to use forums to ask for yeast selection to get it correct.

I was bought 3rd ed as a present, and while it is much better laid out and clearer than 2nd ed I wouldn't have bought it myself purely for that. As with previous reviews, the book is great for new and improving brewers, or those who specifically want to clone one of the listed beers. One thing that hasn't been said in any of the previous reviews is the missing aroma hops on p 109 (Boddingtons Mild). For info, ed 2 gives them as 7g, 9g and 9g for the 19, 23 and 25 litre recipes

This is an excellent book for those who are first starting off in the world of homebrew. It covers the absolute basics from what equipment to purchase through to more complex matters like formulas for calculating the differences in hop bitterness values.The book includes brewing from kits, the extract brewing method and explores the more advanced full mash brewing. This book is up to date with techniques and ingredients and in written in an easy to understand way. It also has a large range of recipes for both extract and full mash beers.Once you have mastered the recipes and techniques in this book I'd recommend  How to Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Beer Right for the First Time  for intermediate to advanced brewers. This covers a lot more of the chemistry behind beers and is truly a great reference guide. How to Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Beer Right for the First Time