The Complete Joy of Homebrewing is the essential guide to understanding and making a full range of beer styles, including ales, lagers, stouts, pilseners, dubbels, tripels, and homerun specialty beers and meads. Everything to get started is here: the basics of building a home brewery, world-class proven recipes, easy-to-follow brewing instructions, and the latest insights in the art and science of brewing. Master brewer Charlie Papazian also explains the history and lore of beer, reveals the technology behind brewing, and shares countless tips on how to create your own original ales and lagers.

This completely revised and updated edition includes:

• An expanded and updated Beer Styles and Homebrew Recipe Formulation chart with easy-to-understand descriptions of key flavor and aroma characters
• Ingredient information for fifty-three beer styles
• A list of more than seventy-five beer types describing strength, hop aroma, bitterness, flavor, color, sweetness, and alcohol percentage
• Expanded chart on sixty-eight hop varieties, descriptions, and uses
• Eighty brand-new and revised favorite beer and mead recipes
• Beer kit tips
• Key information about using and understanding hops
• Revealing reasons why homebrew is the best . . . and much more!