How to Brew

I've been reading John Palmer's How to Brew. Everything you need to know to brew beer right the first time from the library, and just received my own copy in the mail. A big improvement over Charlie Papazian. My next batch will be the Oak Butt Brown Ale on page 200 using the partial mash method. I'm a big fan of full-bodied brown ales.

Also of interest is the description of the immersion wort chiller page 283, though a bag of ice and some patience will do the same thing. And in on page 291 in Appendix E "Lauter tun design for batch sparging" I learn to make my own bulkhead fitting to eliminate hot-side aeration lending to flavor stability over time. The bulkhead design got me interested in the book in the first place.