Brewing Water: A Comprehensive Guide for Beer Makers

GetYerGames: Very informative book. Well worth the money.

United States on Sep 21, 2023

Edi: A lot of really good information!

United Kingdom on Jan 25, 2021

Amazon Customer: i have read this from cover to cover and reread some chapters a few times, i found quite a challenge (not a bad thing)
perhaps the average home brewer should read the water section of john palmers how to brew.
i am still glad i bought it,perhaps it has shown me where my limit is.

United Kingdom on Aug 07, 2020

Chris Tower: Great way to understand some of the more intricate parts of brewing

Canada on Jul 05, 2020

Abiszett: Ich habe mit einem Einsteigerbuch angefangen Bier zu brauen, und es klappt nicht so richtig. Und siehe da, man sollte doch mehr Dinge beachten, als einem die Einsteigerliteratur suggeriert: Wasser ist eine durchaus wichtige Zutat, der man mehr Beachtung schenken sollte!

Deshalb habe ich mir dieses Buch besorgt. Zunächst war ich enttäuscht, dass es keine deutsche Literatur zu dem Thema gibt, doch das Buch ist gut verständlich geschrieben. Es wird zwar auch recht viel auf Chemie eingegangen, aber das hält sich durchaus im Rahmen und man muss den Teil auch nicht unbedingt durchlesen, es hilft aber beim Verständnis.
Gut ist auch, dass hier wirklich explizit auf die Bedürfnisse aus Sicht des Braumeisters eingegangen wird und nicht allgemein die Chemie des Wassers behandelt wird.
Es lässt sich viel praktisches Wissen entnehmen und ich bin mir sicher, dass es mir bei der Problemlösung bei meinen Fehlversuchen helfen wird.

Germany on Mar 31, 2016

Kindle Customer: This book is very technical and includes many long and drawn out math formulas that take a page or more to process. The author does an excellent job of covering water chemistry at an exhaustive level. The author takes the time to give a math formula for each water chemistry ingredient of importance and then works through that formula with a popular beer brand as an example. This book brings up more questions as it gives answers but it also provides the tools to get the job done. The author does an excellent job of providing trouble shooting guides for how to balance water chemistry adjustments. He explains at length how one adjustment may affect another adjustment and ultimately change the beers flavor for better or for worse.
The basic instruction outline is as follows:
1. Get a water analysis report for your brewing water source.
2. Pick a popular style or brand of beer which you want to target for flavor profile and look at that cities water analysis report.
3. Adjust your water PH/Chemistry to match the water PH/Chemistry of that city.
4. Make the first test batch of beer, to determine the initial flavor outcome.
5. Make additional batches of beer and use the...

United States on Jul 20, 2015

Félix DuMesnil Poulin: Great book, I must say that this is some heavy stuff. I meen if your'e a expert homebrewer or even brewmaster in local brewery then this is real nice and full of technical description. But if like me you've been brewing for fun...then you can do as I did and put it on a shelf until you're up to the content.

Canada on Sep 22, 2014

Gary Spedding: A much awaited book on water chemistry and treatment for brewers is finally here. Was it worth the wait?

First of all a criticism - the authors, reviewers and forward note editor imply that there has never been a (single) book of its kind covering the vast topic of water chemistry for brewers - at least not in recent times, in English or with the requisite technical depth for professional brewers. Well they all missed a big fish here (I add the same levity they do in using water terms in a humorous way to open up their topics). I refer to the title: Water in Brewing in the European Brewery Convention Manual of Good Practice Series. 2001 Fachverlag Hans Carl ISBN 3-418-00778-3. With no mention of this book in Palmer and Kaminski's work it's a huge oversight on their part. (Furthermore there are other treatises on brewing water treatment as published conference proceedings out there also not referenced by Palmer and Kaminski. So they missed a lot of crucial literature along the way). That being said and, while there is a lot of overlap in coverage of topics in the two volumes discussed here, the new work has brought together a stellar amount of material and reduced it to a...

United States on Sep 29, 2013