What is a good book on homebrewing?
There are quite a few homebrewing books, including several excellent ones. Many people give high praise to John Palmer’s How to Brew, which is online as well as in printed form. Hundreds of thousands of homebrewers learned from Charlie Papazian’s The New Complete Joy of Homebrewing, available for more than 20 years and now in a new third edition. Ray Daniels’ Designing Great Beers is more advanced and excellent for recipe formulation, although it contains not a single recipe. For recipes emulating commercial beers, Tess and Mark Szamatulski’s Clone Brews and Beer Captured are a good starting point. The Association of Brewers publishes a series on individual beer styles. Among other authors who cover intermediate and more advanced homebrewing topics are Dave Miller, Greg Noonan, and George and Laurie Fix.
