From Grain to Glass

From a bag of malt to a pint you made yourself - step by step.

All-grain brewing is how the best homebrew is made, and with the Brew in a Bag (BIAB) method it needs nothing more than one large pot, one mesh bag and this book. Every term is explained and every stage is illustrated. There are no gallons and no Fahrenheit, just clear, metric brewing written for homebrewers in the UK.

Whether you are moving on from kits or starting from scratch, From Grain to Glass takes you through your first all-grain brew day and beyond.

• A complete brew day in 15 illustrated stages - water volumes, strike temperature, mashing, the iodine test, lifting the bag, the boil, hop timing, chilling and pitching the yeast.
• Ingredients made simple - what malt, hops, yeast and water each do, with a starter pantry you can buy from any UK homebrew shop.
• Fermentation, bottling and kegging - reading a hydrometer, working out ABV and a priming-sugar table by beer style.
• Seven beginner recipes - SMaSH pale ale, pale ale, American pale, oatmeal stout, session IPA, wheat beer and golden lager, each teaching one new skill, with every figure checked.
• Read, scale and design recipes - efficiency, hop substitutions, the BU:GU ratio and a worked best bitter.
• Troubleshooting - stuck mashes, stuck fermentations, an off-flavour chart and flat or gushing bottles.
• A brew-day quick card, checklist and fill-in brew log pages.
• Just for fun - collect stamps in the Brewer's Passport on your way to Master Brewer, christen every batch with the Name Your Beer dice game, and pick up a pub fact in every chapter.

It covers both BIAB and the traditional three-vessel method. A thoughtful gift for the beer lover in your life - for birthdays, Father's Day and Christmas.