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Hard facts, fluid concepts ...................................................................76
Mineral ions ..........................................................................................77
Trace metals..........................................................................................78
Buying Brew-Friendly Bottled Water ...........................................................78

Chapter 8: Adjuncts and Flavorings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Adjuncts: Sugar, Sugar . . . Aw, Honey, Honey.............................................82
Flavoring Your Brew with Flavorings...........................................................84
Funky flavorings: The exotic and the esoteric .................................85
Herbs and spice and everything nice ................................................87

Chapter 9: Making Your Brew Bionic: Additives,
Preservatives, Finings, and Clarifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
To Add and Preserve .....................................................................................92
A Little Clarification, Please..........................................................................93
The Acid Test..................................................................................................96

Part III: Ready, Set, Brew! ..........................................97
Chapter 10: Beginner Brewing Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Gathering the Tools You Need....................................................................100
Brewing Your First Batch ............................................................................101
Taking Hydrometer Readings .....................................................................104
Brewing day reading ..........................................................................104
Prebottling reading.............................................................................104

Chapter 11: Intermediate Brewing Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Taking Control of Your Beer........................................................................107
Fooling Around with Ingredients................................................................108
Grain and strain ..................................................................................108
Hop to it...............................................................................................109
Yeasty beasties ...................................................................................110
Conditioning for Better Beer ......................................................................111
Secondary fermentation ....................................................................111
Tertiary fermentation ........................................................................115

Chapter 12: Homebrewing Directions
for the Serious Beer Geek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Yes, We Have No Potatoes: Mashing Procedures.....................................118
Three important variables ................................................................118
Gimme some water: Simplified water treatment for mashing ......119
And then there were three: Mashing types .....................................120
The aftermash or mash-out...............................................................122
Easing into Mashing with a Partial Mash ..................................................124
Going All Out with All-Grain Brewing ........................................................128
Increasing Your Batch Size..........................................................................131
Harvest Time: Reusing Your Yeast .............................................................133

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Part I

First Things First