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1. Brewiki
The Brewiki is intended as a resource for home brewers, particularly in Australia. It has grown up pretty organically with material added as I have felt the need. It has a full text search so if you know what you are looking for, that should help you find it. If not, feel free to browse around.
I am pretty sure this wasn't the first beer wiki and there are certainly a few around now.
If you don't know what a wiki page is, check out the links at the bottom of the page.
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I knew from a young age that I liked beer
2. Current Popular Picks
BeerColour. Novel chart showing most of the BJCP styles in a one page graphical format.
StirPlate - DIY magnetic stirrer from 12V PC fan.
HopGrowing - if I can grow hops then anyone can.
CounterFlowChiller do it yourself counterflow chiller.
BatchSparge - make beer cordial with your eyes closed, its that easy.
CounterPressureBottleFiller the evolution of the sosman counter pressure filler and PET bottle cap.
BrewPot with pics of spigot fittings.
RollerMill home made roller mill.
PartyKeg DIY 5 litre party keg from a garden sprayer.
PartialMash my blundering attempts at partial mashes so far resulting in a few pics and great tasting beer.
AllGrain - after a few kits then 3 PartialMash brews I had a crack at AllGrain. I have never looked back.
3. Brewsta
Also, please drop in at Sourceforge.net to check out Brewsta, an open source, cross platform brewing software project I have launched. Some recipes created with Brewsta are here.
A screen shot showing the mash calculator:
4. Contents
Contents
Is it brewing weather? 7 day forecasts for various cities in Australia and New Zealand.
5. Getting Started
First some links:
GettingStarted if you are about to attempt your first brew.
How To Brew section 1 will get you started.
Brewery.org lots of useful stuff here, not only beginners.
5.1. Basic Extract Brewing
PartialMash my first foray into brewing without a can opener. Easy! There are quite a few pics on this page.
Basic Brewing Procedures - Extract Brewing A step by step guide to extract brewing.
BYO article on extract brewing including Porter recipe.
5.2. All Grain Brewing
AllGrain - it was almost inevitable that I would give it a go. Builds on my PartialMash experiences. If you are wondering why this is under "Getting Started" then it shows how I got started on All Grain brewing. Once I had brewed a few partial mashes, I felt I was reasonably confident with the process, it was just a matter of scaling up.
6. Recipes
If you need conversions there is an online form here.
HomeBrewRecipes add your favourite recipe here.
Recipes including Australian clones, split into kit, extract and all grain.
http://www.stoutbillys.com/ Lots of recipes.
Assembly Required their recipe page has lots of recipes and style notes.
StrangeBrew Recipe Archive official recipe archive for the StrangeBrew software.
Grain and Grape AG brewing 101.
7. Resources
These are generally organised by State:
8. Links
There are many great home brewing resources on the web, some "locally brewed" others more of an international flavour. See also HomeBrewSupplies and HomeBrewClubs for regional resources.
Predominantly Australian:
The Aussie Homebrewer Forum This forum is probably the friendliest I have come across and people of all skill levels interact in a positive way.
Australian Craft Brewers Includes a mailing list with lots of Aussie and international participants. Topics tend to be weighted towards the more esoteric which probably reflects the experience of the active participants on this forum.
Grumpies includes an online forum
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Goliath Brewing has an online forum
Malthouse Malthouse home brew in Perth offers friendly advice
RBI These guys make 22 litres of beer a week according to their web page.
Home Brew Australia Has recipes which include mods to coopers kits.
Morgans Info about their kits and brewing stuff.
Brewiser Australian brew kits.
BREWnet "Australia's Network of Brewing Specialists"
Forum connected to a commercial homebrew outfit. If they are moderated, it is possible that some topics may not be welcome at these sites that would pose no problem in an "open" site. On the other hand, you could expect to receive timely and informative answers about their own products.
International:
- How To Brew A fabulous on-line book by John Palmer. Everything you need to know to get started.
rec.crafts.brewing and alt.beer.home-brewing are a couple of newsgroups where you can freely answer questions (and ask too).
Home Brewers Digest contains a wealth of information with searchable archives.
Bodensatz Brewing "The Beer Site" Everything you ever wanted to know about beer, and more. Brewing, Drinking. Beer News. Beer Recipes. Forums.
So You Wanna Mash... Dan Listermann
Zymico home brew gadgets and other stuff.
How Stuff Works has a good overview of the brewing process.
http://www.wikibeer.com This beer wiki idea is catching on (not that that brewiki was the first mind you).
Blogs on beer and brewing:
Brewingbooks.com - Blog for discussing brewing books
9. Equipment and Techniques
TemperatureControl resources for keeping ale cosy or your lager cool.
Kegging, carbonation and beer lines. Everything but drinking it.
Equipment Mostly ideas on do it yourself construction.
Techniques and howtos.
CleaningAndSanitation cleaning and sanitation. Contains links to properties of some products.
ChillerGallery The good, bad and ugly of home constructed chillers.
HERMS He has a page on plumbing.
StainlessFermenter an ongoing project.
10. Yeast
11. Hops
Hops now have their own page. Also pics of my hop vine at HopGrowing.
12. Grains
Bodensatz Grain Page Some tips on brewing with grains relevant to kit brewers through to all grain.
Fermentables Other fermentables.
13. Water
Yarra Valley Water quality report Has tables for various parameters including hardness, pH for many suburbs of Melbourne.
South East Water quality report shows analysis from several reservoirs to the east of Melbourne.
adelaide04.pdf Adelaide water report (thanks pedro).
14. Brewers Maths and Chemistry
If only my maths teacher had told me that if I studied maths I could brew the perfect beer. Instead he told me it might save my life one day - paul sorenson
BeerFlavours some quotes and references to influence and sources of phenols, esters and other beer flavours.
Boiling article on the importance of the boil.
Formulas including C source code
DMS Where it comes from and how to minimize it.
IodineTest - a time series of pics from a single mash.
15. Related Stuff
ItsJustNotBeer a page with some other drinks you may or may not want to try (consider it experimental).
I finally realized why our evolutionary path resulted in an opposing thumb - to hold a beer glass
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