Resources
Below is a compilation of great homebrewing resources consisting of blogs, forums, tools, calculators, ingredients, and recipe databases.
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Getting Started:
Getting Started Tips - Some great insight for anyone looking to get started with brewing
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Brewing Methods:
Extract Brewing - AHA's simple extract brewing steps
Extract Brewing w/ Specialty Grains - AHA's extract brewing steps, but with specialty grains
All Grain - Batch Sparge - AHA's all grain batch sparge walk-through
Batch Sparge vs Fly Sparge - AHA compares the different sparging methods
BIAB - Brulosophy's BIAB
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Books:
How to Brew - Online version of 1st Edition (not current) great overview of the entire brewing process
Brewing Classic Styles - How to brew every style with 80 award winning recipes
American Sour Beers - Details the wide array of processes and ingredients in American sour beer production, with actionable advice for each stage of the process
Hops - The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops
Water - Talks about how to read water reports, understanding flavor contributions, residual alkalinity, malt acidity, and mash pH
Yeast - Everything you need to know about yeast
Designing Great Beers - Brewing formulas, tables, and information to help you create your own recipes
Beer Styles:
BJCP 2015 Guidelines - Official 2015 style guidelines
BJCP 2008 Guidelines - Official 2008 style guidelines
Hops:
BeerAdvocate - List with descriptions of most common hop varieties
HopUnion's Aroma wheel - Filter by what character you are looking for
HopUnion's Hop Varities - Extensive detailed list of most hop voarieties
Hop Varietal Guide - Detailed list of hop varietals with cone pictures
Grains:
BYO - Simple list by region with short descriptions
How to Brew - Toasting your own malt
Yeast:
MrMalty - Wyeast and White Labs list and comparable strains
Wyeast - Wyeast strains by beer type with descriptions
Calculators/Tools:
Priceless BIAB - Made for BIAB, but can carry over to any all grain method to give water volumes, strike/mash temperatures, estimated gravities, and efficiencies
BrewUnited - Tools to calculate priming sugar, yeast starters, pitching rate, ABV, boil-off, and dilution.
Brix Conversion - Convert Brix to SG and SG to Brix
Pitching Rate - Calculate amount of liquid, dry, and re-used slurry needed
Force Carbonation Chart - Temperature vs pressure to get desired CO2 volumes
Mead Making Calculator - Calculate SG and volumes based on many different fermentables
Off Flavors Reference PDF - Learn about common off flavors in beer
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Brewing Software:
BeerSmith - Comprehensive brewing software
Brewer'sFriend - Free and paid versions
Brewtoad - Recipe builder
Bru'n Water - A tool accurately assess and modify brewing water
- How To Use Bru'n Water - How to setup and use Bru'n Water
How To:
Water Proof Label - Using gelatin to affix labels
Wax Dipped Bottles - How to make wax to fancy up your bottles
Stove-top Pasteurize - How to pasteurize a sweet carbonated cider
How To Start Kegging - A comprehensive guide to start kegging your beer
How To Build a Keezer - A walk-through of a keezer build with parts and process
Growing Hops:
Getting Started - Great post on how to get started growing hops at home
Fall Maintenance - How to care for your hops in the Fall
Harvesting Your Hops - How and when to harvest your hops
UVM Hop Presentation Q&A - Great Q&A from a hop conference
Hop Research Paper - Great research paper written about hop growing
Online Communities:
American Homebrewers Association - The heart of homebrewing
Reddit.com/r/homebrewing - A very active community with daily question and discussion threads
Brewing Network Podcasts - Podcasts covering beer styles, how to brew, and sour beers
Homebrewtalk - A forum with a great recipe data base
Brulosophy - A blog testing common beer brewing techniques with great tips and tricks
BrewUnited - A great forum with calculators, recipes, and different brewing discussions
Mad Fermentationist - A crazy brewer with a ton of recipes and different information (author of American Sour Beers)
Spent Grain Recipes:
Dog Treats - Great way to use up spent grain if you have a dog
Spent Grain Bread - Delicious bread made partially with spent grain