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Best Recipe and Recipe Creation Book
As I've decided to go all-grain here soon I'm getting more into the creation of my own recipes. Does anyone have any suggestions for a book to buy that would cover the basics of recipe creation?
Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels is a good book for recipe formulation. He doesn't give you any recipes, but he covers most major types of beers and the components that national contest winners use.
I second the nomination for Ray Daniels' book! Truly an informative read, but it is a bit dry for my liking. Randy Mosher also goes into recipe formulation in his "Radical Brewing" book, which is recommended by pretty much everyone on the forum here 
Papazian covers some recipe formulation if I'm not mistaken...I can't recall at the moment which book delves into it, but the read itself is pretty entertaining along the way as well. I think every brewer should have a copy of Papazian's "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" and "The Homebrewer's Companion". I did pick up his latest work, "Microbrewed Adventures", but I find it less inspiring than the others.
Thanks for the suggestions guys, looks like I'll be spending an afternoon at Barne's and Noble
I agree with DGB by Ray Daniels.
You also want a source for "proven" recipes to base your creations on.
http://www.beerdujour.com/AwardWinningRecipes.htm
These recipes have all won an award. That doesn't make these beter than a recipe that hasn't won an award, but it does mean that several people have said that these beers have something right going on.
Fred
I'm starting to get thirsty for the book, "The Brewmaster's Bible" by Stephen Snyder. More than a few recipes in this forum are from that book and it looks fantastic! After I finish brewing the 3 I just printed from there, I'm going to have to buy that book.
It does lose a lot of its usefulness once you move on to all-grain brewing, but there aren't many better books out there for the extract brewer. Plus, I am sure you could reverse-engineer the recipes with a little bit of planning!
I read it for ideas, even though I have yet to brew anything that isn't extract 
That will change soon when I make my Oatmeal Stout! Should be ready in time for Christmas if all goes well, & I will definitely post the results on here!
im partial to my 2 favorite recipe books: Sacred and Herbal Healing Brews by Stephen Harrod Buhner, and Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher. between these 2, there is hardly a beer i couldnt create or modify. the first has tons of info on alternative and traditional ingredients, like herbs (yarrow as a good alternative for hops), honey, rosemary ale (no hops, no barley, no wheat), and the second has all the standard beer recipes, from ales, ipa, porter stout, dubbel, trippel, whitbier, and so much more as well as lots of info on converting extract and all grain recipes, and how to create your own beers.
i am getting lots of great ideas from reading the recipes in the forum here also!
I spent a good hour and a half at the Bookstore yesterday reading some books. I got through a good bit of Papazian's book. It was a good read and I'd reccomend it. They also had a Michael Jackson book, that was interesting to flip through, and a Complete Idiot's Guide to Homebrewing. I couldn't find anything specifically for Recipe Formulation. I guess I'll just have to order them from Amazon.
Hay Mon;
I started with all grain... never brewed a kit or syrup yet, and I'd suggest you read The New Brewing Lager Beer. Very good for learning why beer brewing is the way it is...
Happy brewing to all and to all a good light!!!!
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