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How I Built This with Guy Raz
It was described as a bible for homebrewing and helped Sam understand the science of fermentation in simple terms, giving him confidence to continue brewing.
I just went deep into rabbit holes. And when you read the story of these monks in Belgium, you know, brewing with these local fruits and these Czech breweries finding these Saaz hops, I was like, holy...
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It was described as a bible for homebrewing and helped Sam understand the science of fermentation in simple terms, giving him confidence to continue brewing.
I just went deep into rabbit holes. And when you read the story of these monks in Belgium, you know, brewing with these local fruits and these Czech breweries finding these Saaz hops, I was like, holy shit, this is just as rich as a world of, you know, Fitzgerald short stories or Salinger short stories.
But at that little shop of hops, I bought the book that I first read in the library called The Joy of Homebrewing and Charlie Papazian wrote that book and it's considered sort of the Bible.
And so Charlie did a really great job in The Joy of Homebrewing of putting into layman terms the science of fermentation.
So by reading that, I had some level of confidence because his rallying cry throughout the book was don't worry, relax, have a homebrew.
Which is basically, yep, there's some serious science going on in your kitchen right now with these little single cell animals called yeast. But don't freak out. This has been happening for thousands of years. Trust the process and you'll make good beer.