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Homebrewing can be as easy or as complex as you want it to be. As homebrewing bloggers, we recognize that there is a wide variety of resources available to educate and entertain you. This week’s video we had a little chat about our most popular homebrewing web resources.

John prefers to do much of his internet homebrew surfing via the written word. He follows a handful of blogs. For all of his hop profile research, he hits many different sources. Primarily he likes to read information on the different retail sites and read their descriptions of the hops they sell. He also find different hop growers and distributors resources helpful.

When he puts together a hop profile, it is usually a solid culmination of different information being distilled into one short hop profile.

When researching recipes John and I both take similar approaches. We both tend to look at random recipe postings from other bloggers or forum members. We also like to take a look some of the many recipe databases out there. Taking each recipe sometimes with a little grain of salt, you can often start to come up with a basic trend for what people seem to think goes into brewing a certain style of beer. We both tend to use that information to build our own idea of what a good recipe would look like.
From there, it’s a matter of brewing it up, tasting, modifying the recipe and brewing again.

For me my most prevalent online resources are podcasts. I have been a regular listener to The Session on the Brewing Network. I also listen to Brew Strong, the Sour Hour, and Brewing with Style.
I also listen to the guys over at Basic Brewing Radio (along with their video posts too).

I also read along with The Mad Fermentationist, Sour Beer Blog and Brulosophy.
I also follow too many people on YouTube to mention; except I’ll give a shout out to Chip Walton over at Chop and Brew!

That’s a snap shot of where we go for home brewing information, research, and entertainment.
Where do you travel online when looking for the next great recipe idea or technique?
Let us know in the comments.

Cheers!

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3 Comments

  1. Michael

    I’m a blog, not a podcasat kind of guy, and I find The Mad Fermentationist, Brulosophy, and your site as the most helpful. My biggest interest is the effect of yeast strain and cold side conditions on the effect of aroma and flavor.

  2. Hi Michael – thanks for the note and the support. We like conducting yeast experiments. It might be time for another triangle test.

  3. Mike

    Michael! Send us and email and let’s discuss what you’d like to see regarding yeast and cold side conditioning!
    BREW ON!

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