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"a_friend_in_mead":1h05nm5e wrote: Beer should be drank through a straw if you want to be traditional[/quote:1h05nm5e]

Pud should have pictures of bear breasted ladies out side

I recently bought Extreme Brewing by Sam Calagione, owner of Dogfish Head brewery. It's not the most exhaustive book on the subject of brewing, nor does it contain many recipes (only 25 in all, in fact). But what it lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality and sheer extravagance.

Many of the recipes use non-standard sugar sources to boost the ABV (e.g. raisins, kiwi fruit, blood oranges, chinese rock sugar etc.) and an interesting range of spices and fragrant oak chips. Best of all, it includes an extract version of Dogfish Head's famous 60 Minute IPA, which I'm brewing at the moment.

If you get the urge to try some over-the-top beers, this is a good place to start.

"a_friend_in_mead":2dm6qy8p wrote: Any other good non brewing alcohol books?
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Kind of. This one is a travel guide really[/url:2dm6qy8p], although he visited breweries. I just love his style, my favourite being the jarvies on O'Connell Street trying to get his business. A trilogy in four parts, and full of beautiful illustrations.

Has anyone heard of either of these?
Brewing / Ian S. Hornsey.
Brewing / Michael J. Lewis and Tom W. Young.

I decided I had to start using tcd library to more of a brewing advantage. unfortunately they didn't have any of the books mentioned above. I think the lewis and young one looks like a textbook for a more advanced brewing course.

I thought the TCD library had every book?

every book published in the UK and Ireland by right, from the publisher, and even that in practice means it has a right to them which must be, and sometimes is not taken advantage of. The american books need to be ordered as normal, and since we have no brewing course, (although there is a room in the chemistry building that looks like a micro from through the window) we don't get most of the homebrew books which tend to be american