http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SKZH4AACL._BO2,204,203,200_PIlitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg Do yourself a favor and buy this book. Charlie Papazian is a trip, I met the guy when he won the Karl Strauss Lifetime Achievement in Brewing Award this past August (Karl Strauss was my grandfather). Turns out the guy studied Nuclear Engineering at the University of Virginia, but then threw it to the wind to teach people how to make beer.