{"id":53345,"date":"2020-09-23T12:08:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/?p=53345"},"modified":"2026-11-11T23:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:51:57","slug":"interview-john-palmer-how-to-brew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/en\/interview-john-palmer-how-to-brew\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With John Palmer, Author of How to Brew"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Erick Martell <\/strong>(*)<\/span><\/p>\n

John Palmer is the author of “How to Brew”, one of the homebrewing books most widely read by new generations of brewers, whose fourth revised edition was published by Brewers Publications in 2017. This interview was published in Spanish in September 2020, and the answers below are translated from that version.<\/p>

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In a lesser-known side of his life, John Palmer is also a metallurgical engineer who graduated from Michigan Technological University in 1987. He worked for the space program in a failure analysis laboratory in Irvine, California, and helped design, build and inspect hardware that is now flying on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

Besides How to Brew, Palmer is co-author of Brewing Classic Styles (2007) with Jamil Zainasheff and of Water, a Comprehensive Guide for Brewers (2013) with Colin Kaminski, according to Brewers Publications<\/a>. The latter deals with brewing water chemistry.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, CAMRA Books published his latest book, How to Brew Beer in your Kitchen, a guide to brewing beer at home with kitchen equipment (CAMRA<\/a>, 2025).<\/p>\n