German beer recipe book recommendations?

[Yosh]

Do anyone one have a German beer styles recipe book recommendations, I'm looking to brew some wheat beers and red ale when my Braumeister finally arrives.

I can't find an appropriate smiley to display impatients, but if there was one that is how I feel.

[6470zzy]

Check out the "Classic Styles" series of books, I have most of them in my brewing library and I find them to be quite good.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/German-Wheat-Cl ... +Series%29

Cheers

[Yosh]

Thanks Ozzy, that looks like a good place to start.

[oakwell]

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[Yosh]

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Cheers oakwell. Bargain

[Charles1968]

There are lots of classic German styles in Brewing Classic Styles by Zainasheff, but it's an American author so he tends to use single infusion mashes and fiddly grain bills.

This website is a treasure trove of German recipes with multistep mashes:

http://maischemalzundmehr.de/index.php? ... istrecipes

Use google's autotranslate to turn into English.

[Barley Water]

Well I'm an American so perhaps I'm not impartial however if you do the "Great Jamils" recipes you will almost for certain end up with good beer. Just because the recipes are set up for single infusion doesn't mean you have to do them that way; hey, this is homebrewing and we do what we want, right? Actually, if I want to try a style I haven't done before those recipes are always a good place to start but nobody says you have to slavishly follow them, I haven't brewed very many recipes that I haven't fooled around with at least to some extent. Just a hint though, any time you see him adding a bit of Melonodin malt or perhaps throwing in a bit of Munich in a paler beer he is almost certainly substituting speciality grains for decoction mashing or really long boils (which makes many of his recipes look really complicated). Most German beers have very simple grain bills but one thing you need to remember when reading his book, he is all about winning contests so he's constantly looking for a little advantage over the competition (and yeah, us Yanks make a competition out of damn near everything).

[Charles1968]

The single infusion thing isn't specific to american brewers - Brits are much the same. However, I get the impression German brewers - especially Braumeister owners - do things differently. I like the Zainasheff book and have tried German and Belgian recipes with good results, but there isn't much in it to exercise a Braumeister's multi-step and decoction abilities. The maischemalzundmehr site is better for that.

[IPA]

Do anyone one have a German beer styles recipe book recommendations, I'm looking to brew some wheat beers and red ale when my Braumeister finally arrives.

I can't find an appropriate smiley to display impatients, but if there was one that is how I feel.

Get this one it's got everything you want and more.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brew-Classic-Eu ... rs+at+Home