Brewing Links

• Mr. Beer Recipes
  Mr. Beer's Recipes.
   
• MB Discussion Forums
  Discussion Forums sponsored by Mr. Beer.
  
  
• AHA Forum
  Discussion forum on the AHA website.
   
• How to Brew by John Palmer
  An online book dedicated to teaching how to brew beer.
   
• BrewWiki
  The Brewing Encyclopedia - a user-created brewing encyclopedia designed to help home and professional beer brewers.
  
  
• Ultimate Beer Resource
  A list of beer resources that someone reading this page sent me. (thank you to Jessica)
   
• BU:GU Chart
  Nice little chart that represents malty to balanced to hoppy beers plotting Bitterness Units to Gravity Units.
   
• Hop Characteristics from Boiling Times
  Hop boiling times showing how hops will affect aroma, flavor, bitterness.
   
• BJCP Style Guidelines
  2008 BJCP Beer Style Guidelines.
  
  
• BA Style Guidelines
  There is a PDF link of 2012 BA Style Guidelines on this page at the BA website.
   
• Bottle Priming Calculator
  A handy little web form that will calculate the right amount of sugar to carbonate different styles of beer.
  
  
• Slow Force Carbonation Chart
  A chart of carbonation volumes resulting from temperature vs CO² pressure.
  
  
• Screwy's Brewing Tools & Formulas
  A bunch of calculators.  The batch priming calculator is more complete than others I've seen.
   
• Malts Chart
  Chart listing types of grains and what they add to a beer. Also, lets you know if you need to mash or not.
  
  
• BYO Grains and Adjuncts Chart
  Here's a composite list of grains and adjuncts.
   
• Briess Malt Extract Products
  Spec sheets for the Briess Extracts.  Links to other grains as well.
   
• Homebrew Yeast Chart
  Here's an overview of the most common strains currently available to homebrewers from North America's leading suppliers, who provided all of the information for this chart.
  
  
• Wyeast Yeast Strain Guide
  List of the Wyeast strains of yeast.  Lists specifications and appropriate styles for each strain.
   
• Homebrew Hops Chart
  So how do I choose the right hops for my beer? With such a wide range of flavor and aroma characteristics, this chart can serve as a helpful guide to more than eighty varieties.
   
• Beer Advocate Hop Guide
  A growing list of different hop varieties.
   
• Beer 101
  Welcome to Beer 101. Here you will find beer articles and general information to help in your beer-education.
   
• Mr. Beer Fans
  Discussion Forums independent of, but related to Mr. Beer.
   
• Brew Your Own
  The How-To Homebrew Magazine.
   
• The Brewing Network
  Your favorite brew radio site.
   
• Beer at Home
  My Local Home-Brewing Shop.
   
• Stomp Them Grapes
  Another LHBS close to LODO.
  
  
• The Brew Hut
  Still another LHBS that I go to.  This one close to the Denver tech center.
   
• Washing Yeast
  Pictorial instructions on harvesting yeast.
  
  
• Screwy on Washing Yeast
  I gave Screwy the Washing Yeast link and I think he did a better job documenting it.
  
  
• Billy Brew on Washing Yeast
  The very best explanation I have found on washing yeast. Billy did a great video on it.
   
• Making a Starter
  Mr. Beer forum step by step pictures to make a starter for your harvested yeast.
   
• Brew in a Bag
  An article on BIAB, an all-grain brewing method.
   
• Countertop Partial Mashing
  A BYO article on a technique of partial mashing very close to my process.  Uses a 2 gallon water cooler and a grain bag.
   
• Simple all Grain Brewing
  Nice little pictorial of how to all-grain brew.  Includes some nice photos of a homemade Mash Tun.
   
• Homemade Mash Tun Design
  Cheap & Easy 10 Gallon Rubbermaid MLT Conversion.
  
  
• DIY Kegerator
  Step-By-Step Kegerator Plans from Popular Mechanics.
  
  
• How to Build a Homebrew Kegerator
  Wiki-how instructions on building a kegerator.
   
• D Train Brewery
  DRock's recipes. 
  
  
• Denny Brew
  Came across this guy on the AHA Forum.  Has very simple mash tun design.  His page talks about batch sparging.
  
  
• Gruit Ale
  An online resource for the revival of gruit ale and creative brewing.
  
  
• A few more beer blogs: 
  The Dam Brewery, My Homebrew Journal, Scott's NanoBrewery, Tom "Tabasco" Young, Brian 1179, Trent's Homebrew Journal, Senor Pepe's Brew Log, R2D2Beer, Hyper Adrenalin Brewer, Swen's Brew Log