Big Book of Brewing ─ The Classic Guide to All-Grain Brewing

This is the book for any really enthusiastic and ambitious brewer…the person who wants to brew high quality “true” beers that were long thought beyond the ability of the amateur.

The Big Book of Brewing brings to beginners and experts alike a simple method of “mashing” for producing the finest flavoured beers, ales, stouts, and lagers from all-grain. It is the most advanced and comprehensive book on the subject.

Along with explaining how easy mashing is, Dave Line makes the concepts understandable and describes all the necessary equipment and ingredients needed to succeed. He uses his practical experience at home brewing his training as an electrical engineer and his outstanding sense of humor to shed new light on the topic of making beer from all-grain.

Dave Line was a British beer author. An electrical engineer by profession, he is regarded as a pioneer in homebrewing as a pioneer in homebrewing during the 1970s because at the time homebrewing as a hobby was in its infancy.

At the time people were not getting satisfactory results, because they were using substandard ingredients, low quality syrups or beer kits, baker's yeast, and were not technically informed in the processes of?. He advocated the use of proper brewer's yeast, whole-grain barley malts, whole hops, and even went into simple analysis and comparison of the chemistry of water used for brewing different beers, and rudimentary water treatment. He also encouraged sterilisation and proper cleaning of equipment.

He was a regular contributor to Amateur Winemaker, and in a decade, probably had more recipes published than anyone else. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 37.