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Favorite Links
If you have other favorite brewing links, email them to Steve Kranz and they might get listed here. However, there are tons of beer and brewing links out there and we cannot possibly attempt to list them all here...just our members' favorites.
AHA - Beer Town This is the home of the American Homebrewers Association, and its parent organization the Association of Brewers. Traveling? Look up brewpubs in your destination cities. Search the index to Zymurgy magazine articles. Membership in the AHA is separate and not included in your club membership...biggest benefit is the bi-monthly Zymurgy magazine. Also, a pub discount program, and discounted admission to the National Homebrewers Conference and discounted entry fees in the National Homebrew Competition.
Annapolis Home Brew is located in Severna Park, Maryland. I've been there several times, and it's a nice shop. Plenty of beer and wine extract kits.
Beer, Beer & More Beer A vendor located in California who ships for free ($40 and over), and sells very cool stuff including stainless steel kettles and conical fermenters of varying sizes, three-tier brewing racks and systems, and Rubbermaid beverage coolers adapted for mashing and sparging. Ask for a copy of their catalog...it's very well done and easier to browse then their web site.
Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) publishes the Beer Style Guidelines in use by the A.H.A., and as its name suggests, provides testing and certification of beer judges. Take a look through the BJCP exam questions (they're all published on the site) if you ever need to be reminded of how much you don't know about beer and brewing.
Engraving
Creations is the vendor who supplied our most excellent custom engraved beer
mugs. Each member as of 12/1/06 received a mug with our logo and his/her
name custom engraved beneath it. They came out beautifully. The
prices are reasonable, service and communication are prompt, the work is
outstanding, and the proprietors are friendly folks who worked with us to make
our project turn out better than expected.
Esigns4u Custom Etched Glass This vendor supplied the custom etched
growlers which numerous members ordered, and which arrived just in time for our
2006 Holiday Party. They are very similar to the work on the mugs by
Engraving Creations (above), but the logo is a simpler version and the names are
in a much larger, bolder font so they show up very well on the growlers.
As with the mugs, the work is exceptional, and everyone who ordered one (at a
cost of $44 including shipping/handling) was very pleased with the results.
Fee State Homebrew Club Guild is an association of Maryland homebrew clubs. Not all Maryland clubs are represented, but we've been a member club for a number of years. Our current Guild Representative is Melinda Byrd, who took an active role in preparing to host the National Homebrewers Conference in Baltimore (2005). The Guild organizes numerous events, including an annual picnic, and an annual Christmas party at Clipper City Brewing Company. You'll find links here to other member clubs.
Maryland Homebrew is a homebrew supply shop in Columbia which offers our members a 10% discount. Mostly well-stocked, lots of specials on malt extracts, and I like the self-serve grain bins...get as much or as little of any kind of grain, crushed or whole. Lots of wine kits, and a good selection of hops, dry & liquid yeasts including the "pitchable" strains from White Labs.
Northern Brewer is another good online supplier located in Minnesota. They have an excellent variety of goods, at very competitive prices. I recommend requesting their catalog...it makes for fun browsing.
Real Beer Page Large beer and brewing area with lots to read and plenty of other links.
Williams Brewing is another mail order supplier from California. Their catalog and web site are nice and well-organized. They also have some brewing hardware which I have not found commonly available elsewhere.
