Resources

Key West Home Brew – The southernmost home brew shop

American Homebrewers Association – The national community for homebrewers

HomeBrewTalk.com – Beer, wine, mead and cider brewing discussion community

CraftBeer.com – Celebrating America’s best beer

Beer Calculus – Great online all in one brewing calculator from Hopville

Yeast Pitching Rate Calculator – Thanks to Mr Malty

Midwest Brewing Supplies

This is a Yeast Chart showing what strains are used for particular styles of beer and information about each strain.

http://byo.com/resources/yeast

 

This chart shows different yeast strains from both White Labs and Wyeast, the brewery that uses them, and which strains of WL and Wyeast are actually the same. For example.. SafeAle US05=WLP001=Wyeast 1056= Sierra Nevada’s Chico Ale yeast. This site also shows you; the recommended pitching count of yeast cells depending on your beers OG accounting for viability, whether your using dry or liquid yeast, what size starter to make, etc.

http://www.mrmalty.com/yeast.htm

 

This is basically the same thing just for hops. You can use to see what hop varieties work best with what styles. Its also great for finding substitutions. You just click on the drop box and pick a style.

hops