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Picked these up the other day...I've skimmed through both, and it looks like there is some good information. What's the general consensus on these 2 books?

BCS is an excellent book.

mr x wrote:BCS is an excellent book.

glad to hear it. im picking up a copy this week as well.

Cool! I ordered bcs last week..

mr x wrote:BCS is an excellent book.

+1

I have Chris White's Yeast book. Everything you ever wanted to know. It says practical, but it has a lot of technical info. Really explains the "why" behind everything.

Brewing Classic Styles is great. Has some great recipes to brew and to help build your own recipes.

I like the yeast book and want my own copy. Where did you find it?

KMcK wrote:I like the yeast book and want my own copy. Where did you find it?

I just ordered it from chapters online. None of the stores had it locally.

yeast book is quite good. i havent read through all of it yet.

will have to pickup the BCS book.

I have both books and both are referenced on a weekly basis. Both are great books.

another +1 for BCS - its the first place I go when planning to brew a style never attempted before and still go back to for reference for styles I've done a bunch of times.

Yeast is excellent, don't have BCS.

any local store in town I might be able to purchase this book ? BCS?

I got mine online at Indigo/Chapters but if you have one where you live you may be in luck! Took a couple of days to arrive.

I found this one on a free book table. It's not exactly Yeasts for Dummies, but if you're a mycologist it may be of interest. It has an entire chapter on brewing yeasts.

That's a nice find Kyle!

Regarding BSC and Yeast, I've yet to read a book by Brewers Publications that was bad - both of those titles are excellent.

I just started reading Yeast, myself. It's pretty cheap on amazon and eligible for free shipping if you grab another book or too. It's really informative so far.

Just finished "Brewing Better Beer: Master Lessons for Advanced Homebrewers" by Gordon Strong recently. Lots of good info on correcting errors and objectively identifying issues/improvements to be made. It gets a recommendation for sure.

For that book's advice on how to use a bourbon barrel, it's worth it's weight in gold.

I'm 3/4 of the way through both books and definitely glad I picked them up....hopefully that translates into better beer

Thanks to this thread, I just ordered both books that Jimmy got. Looking forward to reading them.

If Jimmy had set things up correctly he could have gotten a kickback.

I decided I needed both yeast and BCS, picked them both up from Amazon. I would recommend chapters if anyone is still looking, they estimated the shipping to be early October... wtf?

mgc wrote:I decided I needed both yeast and BCS, picked them both up from Amazon. I would recommend chapters if anyone is still looking, they estimated the shipping to be early October... wtf?

Must have had a run on them. I ordered BCS and Designing Great Beers last Friday, received them on Tuesday with free shipping.

LeafMan66_67 wrote:

mgc wrote:I decided I needed both yeast and BCS, picked them both up from Amazon. I would recommend chapters if anyone is still looking, they estimated the shipping to be early October... wtf?

Must have had a run on them. I ordered BCS and Designing Great Beers last Friday, received them on Tuesday with free shipping.

Have you had a chance to read Designing Great Beers yet? I found it a good read/reference.