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Sustainable Homebrewing: An All-Organic Approach to Crafting Great Beer
Brew delicious organic beer at home. In this comprehensive guide, Amelia Slayton Loftus covers everything you need to know to brew at home with organic ingredients, stressing practices that minimize waste and use sustainable resources. Along with 30 irresistible recipes, Loftus provides expert tips on buying equipment, harnessing solar energy, recycling water, using spent grain, and growing your own organic barley, hops, and herbs. You’ll enjoy brewing homemade beer that not only tastes great, but is good for the environment.
368 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2014
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January 19, 2024
Thoughtful and thorough guide to homebrewing with an eye on organic products and reducing waste in your processes.
A little dry at time, but makes for a great reference book. I kinda wish I owned a physical copy (I read the eBook). But I can still consult it on my phone.
I found the chapters on brewing with herbs, fruits, and vegetables especially inspiring!
A little dry at time, but makes for a great reference book. I kinda wish I owned a physical copy (I read the eBook). But I can still consult it on my phone.
I found the chapters on brewing with herbs, fruits, and vegetables especially inspiring!
March 15, 2014
Like the previous reviewer, I also received this book as an ARC from NetGalley.
Since the mid-1980's, I've seem to have had someone in my life (be it a relative, neighbor or friend) that home brewed with various levels of competency. I played around with the idea myself as I judged my potential against whoever the home brewer was whose product I was sampling at the time.
This book adds fuel to that thought. It is very well detailed and covers some considerations in depth such as GMOs, fair trade components and (as in the title) sustainability including recipes you can use for your leftover ingredients. All of the how-to's one can ask for are covered thoroughly.
I'm looking forward to this book as a gift for myself and the home brewers I know once it goes on sale.
Since the mid-1980's, I've seem to have had someone in my life (be it a relative, neighbor or friend) that home brewed with various levels of competency. I played around with the idea myself as I judged my potential against whoever the home brewer was whose product I was sampling at the time.
This book adds fuel to that thought. It is very well detailed and covers some considerations in depth such as GMOs, fair trade components and (as in the title) sustainability including recipes you can use for your leftover ingredients. All of the how-to's one can ask for are covered thoroughly.
I'm looking forward to this book as a gift for myself and the home brewers I know once it goes on sale.
July 16, 2014
Great book for advanced home brewers or people just thinking about taking up the hobby. Some excellent ideas for keeping ones ecological footprint minimal while brewing. Being that I'm as enthusiastic about baking as brewing I appreciated the author's ideas in regards to incorporating spent grains and brewers yeast in with breads and pizza doughs. I also maintain a small garden so the section on the homebrewer's garden was of particular interest since most of what I grow (hops, tomatoes, herbs, peppers, pumpkins) is for my homebrew, bread, and pizza.
October 15, 2015
If you want a quick and dirty guide to home brewing, this isn't it. While very detailed and helpful, this book is tough to get through. The author does a great job giving details on all the ways to be sustainable with beer-brewing, and even supplies the reader with an array of recipes.
Who should read this: Someone who is ready to take home brewing seriously or any beer drinker who cares about the environment.
What to drink with this: Water with lemon. You'd have to be sober to be able to take it all in.
Who should read this: Someone who is ready to take home brewing seriously or any beer drinker who cares about the environment.
What to drink with this: Water with lemon. You'd have to be sober to be able to take it all in.
October 24, 2015
A very knowledgeable but sometimes a bit talky guide to homebrewing *sustainably*. A few good recipes, yes. But the primary value of this book lies (1) in its pharmacopeia of natural brew ingredients and (2) in its recipes for spent grain and yeast.
This is a book I'd add to my resource shelf.
This is a book I'd add to my resource shelf.
June 29, 2015
The title says it all. This is a guide for sustainable homebrewing. This isn't a bad guide. Isn't a great guide. But it is one of MANY guides a homebrewer can choose from.
June 13, 2017
Finally began reading this after renewing it for the 4th time.
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