Homebrew Resources

Homebrewing Resources

Websites / Forums / Blogs

BeerSmith - An excellent blog, an even better podcast and industry standard software platform

Brew Your Own - Worth price of admission just for the array of well thought out articles, not to mention excellent commercial clone recipes

Brulosophy - I cannot tell you how many homebrew myths have been dispelled by this scientific approach to brewing and data collection - invaluable

The Mad Fermentationist - The reason why I wanted to start this blog - Incredibly inventive and inspiring homebrew now with the added insight of a commercial brewer too

r/Homebrewing - Oh Reddit, how I love thee - A friendly community where no question is too stupid - check out the wiki to answer almost all of your questions, anything else can be asked in the daily Q&A

How To Brew - The non-updated digital version of THE classic homebrew book, great for quick reference - If you use it regularly, you should definitely buy a physical copy

Books

How to Brew by John Palmer - the home brewers Bible, originally started as a website (above) now in its third print edition - the ideal starting place

Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels - Mr Cicerone delves into how to design your own beers from the ground up, covering all the classic styles

Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher - A weird and often wonderful book that is full of brewing history as well as some truly bizarre recipes - Chanterelle mushroom ale anyone?

Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher - An immersive introduction to the world of beer - awesome revision tool if you plan to sit Certified Cicerone

Brew Like a Monk by Stan Hieronymus - I fell in love with beer via the Belgian classics and often find myself hankering for something strong, sweet and full of esters - this is an excellent how to

Farmhouse Ales by Phil Markowski - saisons are probably my favourite style, perhaps in spite of how under rated the are - what a rich and fascinating history they have - crack open a Blaugies and imagine you are a Wallonian farm worker

Wild Brews by Jeff Sparrows - Mixed Fermentation is the final frontier for homebrew and all the knowledge you need is here

American Sour Beer by Michael Tonsmeire - The Mad Fermentationist himself gets impossibly chummy with all the best American sour breweries and reveals all their secrets - so much detail!

Water by Palmer & Kaminski - Probably the most over looked element of the brewing process, especially to new brewers - probably book I learned most from out of the four

Hops by Stan Hieronymus - A lovely history lesson as well as some really useful knowledge to take into your next lupulin heavy brewing session

Malt by John Mallet - I pick up this book surprisingly often due to the ever expanding array of malt products available to us as brewers - I can't remember what they all do

Yeast by Chris White - White Labs should be familiar to you - yes, that Chris White - spills the beans on yeast cultivation, isolation and propagation

The Oxford Companion to Beer by Garret Oliver - His Lord And Saviour / Brooklyn Brewmaster Garret lays down pretty much everything you could possibly want or need to know about beer ever

The Brewmasters Table by Garret Oliver - The Second Coming of His Grace, this time with more of a focus on pairing food with beer - an astonishing breadth of knowledge

Brew by James Morton - Turns out British Bake Off winner James Morton is a great home brewer? Who knew. His book on bread is just as good, just in case you are interested

The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm - There is a pretty good argument for Ken being compleat-ly (see what I did there?) for the mead resurgence of the last ten years - a genius

YouTube

David Heath Homebrew - an adorable man with a theme song I want to be buried to - he also knows a thing or two about brewing

Genus Brewing - scallywags seemingly left in charge of a homebrew shop while the adults are off out

The Craft Beer Channel - Cave Directs finest, some of the best produced beer content around

Barley & Hops TV - a very ad-hoc series of videos that is inspiring as it is entertaining

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