Pardon this brief advertisement. The printer will ship Brewing with Wheat next week, meaning it goes to the distributors and then to stores. It could be in your hands by the end of the month.
The “public service” announcement here is that you can pre-order it for 20 percent off from Brewers Publications, entering the code that is provided at the Beer Enthusiast Store.
I’ll be posting more about the book at Brewing with Wheat, but here’s the excerpt from the foreword by Yvan De Baets that appears on the back cover. Totally relevant to the notion where matters when it comes to beer.
“Tracking those old beers—German, Belgian, whatever—makes one realize that the key to the old styles, probably even more than the recipes themselves, was to be found in the local microflora of each brewery. (Jean-Baptiste) Vrancken reports eighteenth and nineteenth century trials, in which brewmasters were sent from a brewery to another similar one, with all their equipment, raw material, and techniques. Sometimes the grains were even crushed in the first brewery to mimic the process perfectly. They never succeeded in making the same beer in the next village!”
And rather than include another giant image to show you the back cover here are the endorsements:
“In Brewing with Wheat Stan Hieronymus has given homebrewers, craft brewers, and beer enthusiast alike a wheat-fuelled flux-capacitor that will transport them from region to region around the world. This page-by-page journey will satisfy the readers thirst for the knowledge, history, and science needed for producing and enjoying the wide spectrum of wheat beers.”
– Sam Calagione, founder Dogfish Head Crafty Brewery
“Stan Hieronymus has filled a giant, gaping hole in the beer literature with this book. And once again, he has done it with crisp, engaging prose, loaded with rock solid information, much of it directly from those who brew these delicious, but technically challenging beers every day.”
– Randy Mosher, author of Radical Brewing and Tasting Beer
We will now return to regular programming.
Added Feb. 17 (just because Alan asked – see below): The book weighs 11.8 ounces.
Right on, Stan!
When’s the first signing?
I suppose it is wise to leave me off the back cover testimonials (again) but I really do think, as I believed I have mentioned a number of times, that people really want to know the weight of the book as well as its relative ability to float. Next time, think Al. You know you want to. Added 2.17.10: 11.8 ounces.
When the book arrives the first thing I will do is weigh it. And report back.
Stan,
You may Illuminate and gild my copy to up the weight if you want. Just remember that drivel and frilly stories always weigh less (per volume) than actual fact. 🙂 Its kinda like the difference between fat and muscle. 🙂
. . . wrote the subject of one of the frilly stories.
It would have been sweeter if you didn’t bring the sensor monkeys with you…
Looks good, will it be available in the UK to weigh, I mean, read?
Adrian – “Brew Like a Monk” is on the UK Amazon. But you’re supposed to be coming to the US this year, right?
Speaking of weight – I see that Jack Curtin has 1001 in hands (apparently heavy enough it takes two).
Stan
that’s where I got Brew Like A monk and also a couple of Randy M’s books, so I will go there, I’m planning on Denver I hope, but I want to read it before then. saw Jack Curtin’s blog, it is a heavy book, I’ve got two and use them for weights…
Stan,
I now know what my next beer book will be. I love wheat beers and thank you for covering this subject when the rest of the beer world seems stuck in double this and imperial that. I can’t wait.
Hello Stan,
Wanted to see if you are attending the SBF, Phoenix – 2/13?
http://www.azbrewguild.com/strongbeer2010.php
Our homebrew club would like to ask if you can join us some third tuesday this year to talk about your new book
http://www.azhomebrewers.org/w/General_Meetings
Regards,
stevO
Hi Steve – Won’t be able to make it to SBF but will try to be over your way later this year. Will have to see if I can time it for a third Tuesday but if not maybe we can set something up anyway.