I liked this book, but I am not sure if I will ever use any of the exact recipes. It is a good source for ideas on what other people have done. It is much like when a neighborhood puts out a cookbook, but this time is is a nation's homebrew recipe book.

Not a bad recipe book, but I'd say much more valuable to extract brewers as over half are extract recipes. I've definitely gotten some good ideas from it, but was a bit disappointed there weren't more all-grain recipes. There are only a few that I have any interest in brewing. Still it serves as a good reference when developing a new recipe. Most of all it's interesting to see what recipes other homebrewers have had success with.

Although there isn't enough information presented here for the truly novice brewer(just a short formulation chapter at start of the book and the appendixes in back)I found this book to be very interesting to read. People have come up with all sorts of recipes, who'd ever have time to try them all?, and such names! The names these guys have come up with are almost better than their recipes. I especially liked the chapter on hombrews made with honey, those might be the easiest for a novice and seem to be hard to find.