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A useful guide to craft brewing in the UK - Rated
The most recent previous guide to craft brewing in the UK was published in 1993 ("Home Brewing" by Graham Wheeler) and since then there has been a huge growth in the knowledge, ingredients and equipment available to the UK craft brewer so some sort of more up to date publication was probably overdue. John Alexander does not attempt to be a simple update of the Wheeler book, even though by nature of its publication date it does to a large extent achieve this, but has written a guide based on his own long experience of craft brewing.
The science behind the brewing process is researched and described in some detail and I learnt some new facts from reading this book. Brewing beer is such an interesting process that every brewer's experiences will differ and accordingly there will be differences in opinion on the relative importance of factors such as water quality, sparging efficiency or use of finings but it is interesting to read of one person's own journey of brewing discovery. As long as the end result is good it hardly matters what route you take to get there although in craft brewing the journey is a large part of the fun. For me, the tendency to use Scottish terminology ("crumbs from a hop picker's piece bag") adds to the character of the book.
In spite of a number of small typographical errors, this book is more self-consistent and more scientifically correct than some earlier publications and is a useful addition to the craft brewer's library.
