Book Week: Strong’s Modern Homebrew Recipes

• What is it? A beginner-to-intermediate homebrew guide for modern tastes
• Who’s it For? Beer fans who want to brew their own
• Reviewer Disclosure. None; never met Gordon Strong

The Review

According to the Amazon stats the moment I checked them (6:30 pm, July 6), Charlie Papazian’s Complete Joy of Homebrewing is the 5,024th best selling book on the entire site. It was originally written over 30 years ago, and show no signs of losing commercial viability. But the truth is, it’s very, very badly outdated on nearly every front. It mainly explains extract homebrewing, which no one should ever do, tells you how to improvise a homebrewery out of materials that existed in the early 80s, and worst of all, gives you a bunch of recipes that look … quaint. Anyone coming to beer in 2015 should rightly regard it more as a historical text.

Many homebrew books have been written since, but f …