Reddit mentions of Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew

I'm not sure I would call it advanced, but I found Brewing Better Beer as an awesome companion to How to Brew.

While How to Brew focuses on science and techniques, Brewing Better Beer is almost a philosophy book - a zen approach to brewing. I enjoyed it very much, and got a lot out of it.

If I only had 3 books, it would be How to Brew, Brewing Better Beer, and Brewing Classic Styles.. You simply can't beat the recipes in BCS - they are perfect starting point for entry into any style.

I'd start by tweaking a recipe from Brewing Classic Styles or Clone Beers. Then read Designing Great Beers somewhere down the road.

If you're a member of the AHA, you have access to a ton of recipes that have medaled in the National Homebrew Competition. I think that if you're not a member, you can still see some recipes, but not the winners. Here is a link.

Brewing Classic Styles is always highly recommended, especially if you're an extract brewer.

I've also been paging through Modern Homebrew Recipes and enjoying that. It's mostly just a recipe book, but he gives his reasoning behind each recipe and gives suggestions on how you might want to modify it to fit your taste and equipment. I've found it to be very informative and the one beer I've made from a recipe in the book turned out great.

Also, I know you are looking for something outside of Homebrewtalk, but just in case you haven't seen it yet, this is a helpful spreadsheet of the top 100 recipes there with tabs to sort by either style or rank.

As for designing your own recipe - pick a style you like, then do some research on it by reading it's respective chapters in Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels and Brewing Classic Styles by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer (other sources are great as well, those are the two I most often go to).

Check out Brewing Classic Styles. It gives a pretty good run down of each recipe and whats going on in it.

I use Wyeast 3068 for hefeweizens a lot (my wife's favorite beer), which I've heard is close to an identical strain to WLP300. I follow the advice I read in Brewing Classic Styles, which is to ferment low, even slightly lower than recommended, at 62F for the best flavor (for 3068, the recommended fermentation temperature by the lab is 64F to 75F). I've followed that and I love the results.

For books, I'd recommend Brewing Classic Styles.

I have been using this book, my goal is to try brewing most of the styles once.

Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002C1AJX8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_p6KKAb52544YZ

Why don't you just invest the $10 and buy you a copy. Let the author get paid for his work and for a little over the price of a Double whopper with fries and a drink you've got a book that you can learn something from.

Brewing Classic Styles Kindle Version on Amazon.com