RESOURCES
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Below is a compilation of great homebrewing resources consisting of blogs, forums, tools, calculators, ingredients, and recipe databases.

Getting Started Tips - Some great insight for anyone looking to get started with brewing.
GETTING STARTED

BJCP 2015 Guidelines - Official 2015 style guidelines
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BJCP 2008 Guidelines - Official 2008 style guidelines
BEER STYLES

MrMalty - Wyeast and White Labs list and comparable strains
Wyeast - Wyeast strains by beer type with descriptions
YEAST

Water Proof Label - Using gelatin to affix labels
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Wax Dipped Bottles - How to make wax to fancy up your bottles
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Stove-top Pasteurize - How to pasteurize a sweet carbonated cider
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How To Start Kegging - A comprehensive guide to start kegging your beer
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How To Build a Keezer - A walk-through of a keezer build with parts and process
HOW TO

Dog Treats - Great way to use up spent grain if you have a dog
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Spent Grain Bread - Delicious bread made partially with spent grain
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6 Ways to Use Spent Grain - what to do with the pounds of spent brewer’s grain (SBG) left behind
SPENT GRAIN

Extract Brewing - AHA's simple extract brewing steps
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Extract Brewing w/ Specialty Grains - AHA's extract brewing steps, but with specialty grains
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All Grain - Batch Sparge - AHA's all grain batch sparge walk-through
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Batch Sparge vs Fly Sparge - AHA compares the different sparging methods
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BIAB - Brulosophy's BIAB
BREWING METHODS

BYO - Simple list by region with short descriptions
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How to Brew - Toasting your own malt
GRAINS

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
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BrewUnited - Tools to calculate priming sugar, yeast starters, pitching rate, ABV, boil-off, and dilution.
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Brix Conversion - Convert Brix to SG and SG to Brix
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Pitching Rate - Calculate amount of liquid, dry, and re-used slurry needed
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Force Carbonation Chart - Temperature vs pressure to get desired CO2 volumes
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Mead Making Calculator - Calculate SG and volumes based on many different fermentables
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Off Flavors Reference PDF - Learn about common off flavors in beer
CALCULATION / TOOLS

Getting Started - Great post on how to get started growing hops at home
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Fall Maintenance - How to care for your hops in the Fall
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Harvesting Your Hops - How and when to harvest your hops
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UVM Hop Presentation Q&A - Great Q&A from a hop conference
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Hop Research Paper - Great research paper written about hop growing
GROWING HOPS

How to Brew - Online version of 1st Edition (not current) great overview of the entire brewing process
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Brewing Classic Styles - How to brew every style with 80 award winning recipes
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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
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Hops - The Practical Guide to Aroma, Bitterness and the Culture of Hops
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Water - Talks about how to read water reports, understanding flavor contributions, residual alkalinity, malt acidity, and mash pH
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Yeast - Everything you need to know about yeast
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Designing Great Beers - Brewing formulas, tables, and information to help you create your own recipes
BOOKS

BeerAdvocate - List with descriptions of most common hop varieties
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HopUnion's Aroma wheel - Filter by what character you are looking for
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HopUnion's Hop Varities - Extensive detailed list of most hop varieties
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Hop Varietal Guide - Detailed list of hop varietals with cone pictures
HOPS

BeerSmith - Comprehensive brewing software
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Brewer'sFriend - Free and paid versions
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Brewtoad - Recipe builder
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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
BREWING SOFTWARE

American Homebrewers Association - The heart of homebrewing
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Reddit.com/r/homebrewing - A very active community with daily question and discussion threads
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Brewing Network Podcasts - Podcasts covering beer styles, how to brew, and sour beers
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Homebrewtalk - A forum with a great recipe data base
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Brulosophy - A blog testing common beer brewing techniques with great tips and tricks
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BrewUnited - A great forum with calculators, recipes, and different brewing discussions
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Mad Fermentationist - A crazy brewer with a ton of recipes and different information (author of American Sour Beers)