brewery library?

[Twonk]

Top ten books for a craft brewery library?

Slainte
Dave

[dfougeron]

I don't know about the others, but EVERY brewery should have Ray Daniels "Designing Great Beers". Even though most of the statistics are derived from home-brew compititions, there is some invaluable information in that book when it comes to recipe formulations. Noonan's "Brewing Lager Beer" would be my second choice.
Cheers!
Dave

[ECB]

All the books from www.asbcnet.org


Tom

[pbutlert]

Brewing by Lewis and Young
MBAA Practical handbook for the specialty brewer, vols. 1-3
Any of the classic beer styles series you plan to brew
Brewery Yeast Management guide from Wyeast

[Bham Brewer]

A Textbook of Brewing, Jean De Clerck

[mooneyray]

Brewing: Science & Practice by Briggs, Boulton, Brooks, and Stevens.
Pretty expensive, very detailed academic text.

[Moonlight]

I second the de Clerck book. I would choose it over any other if I had one choice. See archived thread on this subject.

[rudge75]

These are the ones I reference the most:
Technology of malting & Brewing Science - Kunze
Brewing - Lewis & Young
Classic Beer Styles Series - AHA (A bunch o' books)
Brewing Lager Beer - Noonan

I never really found the declerk book useful, but that's just me. I think what you find useful depends a lot on the size of your brewery and what genre the book skews to.

I picked up the Beer Packaging book a few years back when someone here was clearing out their library - but I've never had to open it. The breweries I've worked for have just been too small to relate. That said, I've opened the Kunze book many times over.

[calltmont]

I'll second the MBAA's practical Handbook series. Every brewer should have a set. On a less practical note the last book that I would part with is my copy of "the American Handy-Book of the Brewing, Malting and Auxiliary Trades" by Wahl and Henius from the turn of the last century.

Chris Alltmont

[Bham Brewer]

Thank you Moonlight. It seems de Clerck has been overlooked alot in recent years, sadly...

I have to add, as funny as it sounds, Papazian's NCJOHB. I have never worked in a brewery that didn't have one... and a ragged-out copy at that!

[surly1x1]

Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher is full of great ideas-even though it's aimed at home brewers.