Home Brewer's Reference Materials

• Online Books
• Online Magazines
• Brewing Communities
• Standards & Ingredients
• Tools
• Other Excellent Links

Online Books:

• John Palmer's How to Brew
  This book is geared towards everyone from the absolute beginner to intermediate or advanced homebrewer. It covers malt extract brewing, mashes, troubleshooting, calculating, designing your own recipes, and much more.

Online Magazines:

• Brew Your Own
  This is a magazine that we carry in the shop, and you can find some of their articles online, along with some tools and an extensive collection of recipes.
• Zymurgy
  This is another magazine we carry in the shop, which also has some online content.
• RealBeer.Edu
  The RealBeer Network has constructed this list of publications that they have made available.
• Brewing Techniques
  This magazine is sadly no longer in print, but they have an archive of their articles online.
• All About Beer Magazine

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Brewing Communities:

• American Homebrewers Association
  This is of course the national group that organizes big events such as the Beer World Cup and puts out Zymurgy. They even have a Homebrew Club locator on this page.
• Pacific Gravity
  And this is our more local group...
• Morebeer's Brew Chat
  This online community talks about brewing techniques, bbq, and everything in between.

Standards & Ingredients:

• Beer Competition Style Guidelines
  The standard guide to categorizing beers be style brought to you by the Beer Judge Certification Program.
• Yeast Profiles
  What you can expect from your yeast strain, organized by manufacturer.
• Grain Profiles *Coming Soon*
  The facts and figures about grains, so you can make the appropriate calculations for your homebrew recipes.
• Hop Profiles
  What you can expect in the way of flavor from your hops.

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Tools:

• Attenuation Calculator
  Compute the real attenuation of your beer
• Alcohol Content Calculator
• Bitterness Calculator from Realbeer
• Bitterness Calculator from ProBrewer
• Calorie Calculator
• Compute Extract from Points
  Convert between Degrees Plato and Specific Gravity Points
• Carbonation Calculator
• Final Beer Analysis (requires login)
  You put in your recipe and your gravity measures, and this tool gives you extraction/fermentation figures.
• Hydrometer Temperature Correction
• Mash Infusion Calculator
• Multiple Hop Addition Bitterness Calculator
• Recipe Calculator (requires login)
  You put in your recipe and it works out attenuation, IBU, alcohol, etc.
• Recipe Generator (requires login)
  You give it a style and the ingredients you want to use and it figures out the proportions to make your brew!
• Volume Unit Converter
• Water Chemistry Calculator from Realbeer
• Water Chemistry from ProBewer
• Weight Conversion Calculator

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Other Excellent Links:

• The Beer Hunter
  Michael Jackson's personal webpage
• The Real Beer Page
  This is an incredible reference from news to fun facts to new techniques.
• Los Angeles Beer Guide
  This is a more local guide to beer and beer community in Los Angeles, so if you are local, you should check it out!