Greetings! I'm Don and this is my page dedicated to the art of Home Brewing. While I'm not an expert on the subject, far from it, I do enjoy finding out as much as I can to improve my own libation creations. As such, I have compiled a list of links on the topic. Hope you find something you can use. If you have specific questions about a process, or where to get started, feel free to contact me at [email protected] I'm the one on the right in the picture. This was taken at Bockfest 2004 at the Schell's Brewery in New Ulm, MN. Cheers!

Associations

• American Homebrewers Association

• Minnesota Home Brewers Association

• Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP)  - Beer style guidelines for competitions

Homebrewing Processes

• How To Brew - An online book by John Palmer. An excellent source of information
• The Brewer's Handbook - Another online book by Ted Goldammer
• Paul's Brewing Page - This is a super site put together by, you guessed it, Paul. He has done a great job of walking you through several brewing processes, from extract brewing to decoction mashing, using step by step photos
• Brewing With Denny - A great page on Batch Sparging and building a converted cooler mashtun. A great reference for those thinking of going All-Grain
• Bottoms Up Brewery - A nice walkthrough of the all-grain process with photos of each step
• Skotrats Official Homebrew "Beer Slut" Page - Lots of goodies
• The Brewery - Total Homebrewing Information
• Bodensatz Brewing - The Beer Site^TM- A vast array of info that I didn't know where else to put
• Eric's Brewery - This guy loves making stuff to homebrew with!
• Practical All-Grain Brewing - A nice introduction to the process
• Ron's Homebrewing Page - Another guy who loves making stuff, and likes to share his knowledge!

Homebrew Recipes

• The Recipator - A great site for formulating recipes. Very complete and easy to use. Also has tons of recipes
• The Recipe Exchange - A nice selection of recipes
• BeerRecipes.org - Lots of recipes separated by style

Homebrewing Forums

• Northern Brewer Homebrew Forum - An incredible wealth of information from homebrewers around the world
• Brew and Wine Making Forum - Another great site for talking with fellow brewers and learning from their shared wealth of knowledge

Commercial Sites and Magazines/Journals on Beer and Homebrewing

• Beer Smith - This is some very slick, inexpensive software that makes recipe calculation a snap
• Promash - Another great piece of software for brewers of all levels
• Realbeer.com - This links to their homebrewing section, but the whole site is great
• Brew Your Own - A great publication with tons of archived articles
• Beer Tools - Chock full of stuff! Recipes, calculators, articles, a forum, an area to save recipes, and more
• TastyBrew.com - an online homebrewing resource and recipe database, complete with recipes, forums, brewing calculators, user journals, and more!
• Brewing Techniques Magazine - Lots of great articles

Other Beer Stuff (Not Specifically about Homebrewing)

• All About Beer - Specifically, articles about homebrewing
• Beer Traveler's - Brew Pub Finder
• Pub Crawler - A nice place to check out local brewpubs and check user ratings
• The Oxford Bottled Beer Database - So much beer, and only one mouth!
• Schell's Brewing  and Summit Brewing - I couldn't leave my hommies out. Plus, they give a few hints as to their recipes! Yummy

Links Dealing with Specific Ingredients

• Hop Varieties
• Hop Bitternes Calculator
• White Labs - Manufacturers of brewing yeasts
• Wyeast Labs - Manufacturers of brewing yeasts
• Honey and Homebrewing
• Cascadia Importers - Importers of Coopers products. Includes a nice list of the recipes that they include on the cards in Brew Your Own magazine
• Briess Malt and Ingredients - Products information and homebrewing tips
• Muntons - UK-based manufacturers and suppliers of malt, malt extract and malted ingredients

Beer Making Equipment & Supplies (This is not intended to be a complete list, but a plug for some of my suppliers)

- St. Paul, MN            - Minneapolis, MN

- Barron, WI     

• Pine Cheese Mart/VonKlopp Brew Shop - Rochester and Pine Island, MN
• Homebrew.com - Great selection of brewing supplies as well as having all their recipes in pdf
• Homebrewer Supply.Com - Nice online selection - Based in the Twin Cities
• Brewsupplies.com - Not only an extensive supply of goods for sale, but some great Hints/Tips on the right panel
• Fermentation Products - A great section of Tips and Tricks on the right-hand menu, as well as a nice online catalog