BREW BEER LIKE A YETI BY JEREME ZIMMERMAN

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Bronze WinnerBest Book from the Beer Writers Guild

Experimentation, mystery, resourcefulness, and above all,funthese are the hallmarks of brewing beer like a Yeti.

Since the craft beer and homebrewing boom of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, beer lovers have enjoyed drinking and brewing a vast array of beer styles. However, most are brewed to accentuate a single ingredienthopsand few contain the myriad herbs and spices that were standard in beer and gruit recipes from medieval times back to ancient peoples discovery that grain could be malted and fermented into beer.

Like his first book,Make Mead Like a Viking, Jereme ZimmermansBrew Beer Like a Yetireturns to ancient practices and ingredients and brings storytelling, mysticism, and folklore back to the brewing process, including a broad range of ales, gruits, bragots, and other styles that have undeservingly taken a backseat to the IPA. Recipes inspired by traditions around the globe includesahti,gotlandsdricka, oak bark and mushroom ale, wassail, pawpaw wheat,chicha de muko, and even Neolithic stone beers.

More importantly, under the guidance of the worlds only peace-loving, green-living Appalachian Yeti Viking, readers will learn about the many ways to go beyond the pale ale, utilizing alternatives to standard grains, hops, and commercial yeasts to defy the strictures of style and design their own brews.

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