BREWING INFO

Better Resources

Ingredients

Yeast, Water, Malt, Hops, Other

Equipment

Cleaners

Processes

Carbonation

Styles

Suppliers

Homebrew Shops, Kegging Equipment, Lab Supplies, Scales, Thermometers, and such, Tools and Fittings

Books and Magazines

BETTER RESOURCES

• HomeBrew Digest Homepage Shows how to start receiving the Homebrew Digest and you can search the archives for a ton of brewing information.
• Home Roasting & Brewing Spencer Thomas's page. Contains the HBD, Judgenet, Lambic Digest & Mead Lover's Digest Archives.
• The Brewery's Library Information on about anything you can think of on homebrewing.
• The Brewery's Bulletin Board Many helpful brewers here. Just post a question and get tons of help and advice.
• Skotrat's Homepage Skotrat has his own bulletin board, a chat room, recipes (try his B52 Wheat), and a lot of links to brewing information.
• SKOTRAT'S BREWRAT CHAT!!!! Many experienced and knowledgable homebrewers on here willing to share info. A very fun place to hang out....

INGREDIENTS

Yeast

• Brewrat's yeast specs Skotrat has put together a page compiling a lot of yeast info into a more visually appealling format. It has all the info from the Commercial yeast strains page and a lot more.
• Commercial Yeast Strains Lists yeast suppliers and what brewery's yeast it is.
• DCL Yeast Safale and Saflager dry yeasts.
• Great Mead Yeast Survey The SCA Brew Great Mead Yeast Survey.
• Lallemand Yeast Danstar and Lalvin dry yeast.
• White Labs, Inc.
• Wyeast
• Yeast Culture Kit Company
• Yeast link previous and current research in brewing yeast, fermentation, yeast propagation and maintainance.
• Yeast Storage Experiment maintaining a library of yeast under sterile distilled water.
• Yeast from Bottle Conditioned Beers Lists what breweries bottle condition and if the yeast is viable or not.
• Zymurgy du smurman Yeast Profiles Page

Water

• Ken Schwartz's Home Page Water Chemistry info, gadgets, and software.
• Ken Schwartz's HBD post I use He posted basic water Recipies with teaspoon measurments for salts.
• Ken Schwartz's Water Chemistry Primer Ken killed this page apparently. I used the Wayback Machine and found an old copy of it. I copied it as it was back then and put it on my site.

Malt

• American Malting Barley Association, Inc.
• Barley - Harrington Varietal Information
• Barley Lab
• Brewer's Market Guide on Malt
• Bob's Red Mill Corn Grits/Polenta
• Briess Malting Co.
• Coors Barley
• Crisp Malting Group
• Durst Malz
• Malt Extract Database
• Jim's Malting System Homemalting system
• Schreier Malting Co.
• Thomas Fawcett & Sons Malting Co. Floor malting
• The Malt Show
• Weissheimer Malzfabrik
• Weyermann Malting

Hops

• Breworld: Hops
• EHP English-Hops.com.
• Freshops
• Hop Growers of America
• Hop Merchants
• Hopsdirect Puterbaugh Farms
• Hopunion
• John I. Haas Inc.
• Joh. Barth and Sohn
• JustHops
• Yakima Chief, Inc.

Other

• Bulk herbs... Bulk herbs, herbal formulas, herb teas, and spices at Years to Your Health.
• DaVinci Gourmet Da Vinci Gourmet offers a full line of gourmet flavored syrups, gourmet sauces and chocolate confections
• Francesco Sirene, Spicer PURVEYORS OF GOODS FOR HISTORICAL COOKERY AND LIVING
• Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages
• Herb Alchemy Herb Alchemy herbs aromatherapy healthcare evaluations
• Chefshop Dark Muscovado sugar and other sugars.
• Nuts N Stuff
• Oregonfruit
• Penzeys Spices
• Types of Sugar
• Wholesome Sweeteners

EQUIPMENT

cleaners

• FiveStar Chemicals
• Iodophor De-mystified
• Logic Cleansers

PROCESSES

Carbonation

• Recipator Carbonation Page
• Recipator Carbonation Widget
• Mark Hibbard's Primer on Priming
• Dave Draper's Priming Procedure I have used this with good results. I used it on the Palexperiment and was shooting for 2.25 volumes of CO2. I ended up with 2.3.

STYLES

• BJCP Home Page - Beer Judge Certification Program.
• Preparing for the BJCP exam - Study aide for the BJCP exam. A lot of links to info on beer styles and ingredients.
• THE SORCERER'S ZYMURGY DATABASE - Database of information about English beers and their ingredients put together by ????

SUPPLIERS

Homebrew shops

• Beer, Beer, and More Beer
• Beer & Wine Hobby
• Brew Source
• Brewer's Resource - Just yeast and culturing supplies now....
• Grape and Granary
• Great Fermentations of Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana.
• Heart's Homebrew
• Homebrew Adventures
• Hoptech
• Lubbock Homebrew Supply
• My Homebrew Shop (Same place as Just Hops)
• Northern Brewer
• Paddock Wood
• St. Patrick's of Texas
• Stout Billy's
• Williams Brewing

• Brewer's Discount (RCB Equipment?)
• Sanke Keg Disassembly
• KegMan Products

Lab Supplies

• American Science & Surplus
• Brewing Science Institute
• ChemLab
• Cole Parmer
• Cynmar Scientific Supplies
• LabX
• Markson LabSales
• Scientific Suppliers - A good reference for suppliers.

• Hanna Instruments - pH meters.
• Moving Brews - Mag-Drive Pumps.
• Precision Weighing Balances - Scales
• Trend Instruments - Thermometers

Tools and Fittings.

• Grainger
• McMaster-Carr
• Plumbing Supply - for Stainless Steel parts,
• Swagelok - for Bulk-head fittings.

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Magazines

• Brewing Techniques No longer available but site is still there

Books

• Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England
• Bibliofind - Book finder.
• Cindy Renfrow - This site is devoted to the hands-on exploration of history
• Dealtime - Book finder.
• Harrison's Description of England in Shakespere's Youth (1575)
• History Of Beer And Brewing In Chicago
• How to Brew - by John Palmer.
• Poison Pen Press - sells books, specializing in medieval cookery, costuming, and other material relating to the domestic aspects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
• Practical Brewer This takes you to the Master Brewers Association of the Americas page. I can't find the pdf version on their site anymore.
• Wahl and Henius Handy Book of Brewing
• Wolfgang Kunze: "Technology Brewing and Malting"