Beer of the World

On my first day out garage saleing this year I picked up a book on making beer. I already have a few books like this but it was full of recipes and I can always use more of those, especially for a buck. It wasn't until I got it home and really looked at it that I realized that: A.) it was a little out dated (it was first published in 1979 and the edition I got was from 1984), and 2.) it was printed in the British Empire (where the sun never sweats).

The first tip off of it's national origin was when I noticed on the back cover that the original price was just under 5 British pounds (sorry, I don't know how to make the little pound symbol). Also most of the recipes are fore English beers which is not a bad thing, because I am a fan. There is a section in the book called "Beers of the World" which features recipes for clones of three American beers, Budweiser, Colt 45 and Schlitz. I've never had a hankering to produce any of these three brews, but if anyone is interested in the recipes, I can hook you up.

There is a lot of good information to make the book useful but they use that quaint metric system of measure so I'll have to apply some of my non-existent math skills to do the conversion. I've just consumed a bottle of my last home brew, which came out okay, but lacks the lively carbonation I was hoping for. Perhaps for my new brew, I'll choose one of the excellent beers from across the pond.