The Perfect Keg: Sowing, Scything, Malting and Brewing My Way to the Best-Ever Pint of Beer

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Ian Coutts

The Perfect Keg

Sowing, Scything, Malting and Brewing My Way to the Best-Ever Pint of Beer

Ian Coutts

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Greystone Books,Canada
29 May 2014

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The perfect keg. Filled with perfect beer. A symphony of flavors in the mouth. The right blend of sweet and bitter. The fluid in that keg represents a year's work. Actually brewing it took a few weeks. But to make it truly the perfect keg, Ian Coutts had to go right back to fundamentals. This beer didn't start with a beer-making kit, which is what most homebrewers use. And it didn't rely on pre-roasted industrial malt, which is how commercial brewers big and small do it. Coutts made his own malt, aerating wet barley with an aquarium bubbler and blasting it with a hair dryer. Of course, to do that he needed barley. So he grew his own. Hops, too. Yeast, he went out and captured. And that's it. With this beer, the only additives are knowledge and history. There were plenty of adventures, misadventures, and missteps along the way, but Ian writes about them with humor and aplomb, including his own recipes and those of people he worked with in the brewing process, proving it's possible to make the perfect keg of wholly natural beer in one year.

By: Ian Coutts
Imprint: Greystone Books,Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 283g
ISBN: 9781771000086
ISBN 10: 1771000082
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 29 May 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ian Coutts is the author of several books, including Dadzooks and Brew North. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Reviews for The Perfect Keg: Sowing, Scything, Malting and Brewing My Way to the Best-Ever Pint of Beer

""Ian Coutts takes home-brewed beer to a whole new level -- he does everything but mold his beer mug out of clay -- and in the process produces an unexpected page-turner. This book will make you laugh, make you cheer, and make you thirsty.""--JB MacKinnon, author of Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet