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The following are websites I frequent to find information about craft beer and homebrewing when I am too hungover to just go drink it or brew it.

Craft Beer

• Beer Advocate – Great hub for forums, education, directories, ratings, and much more
• Beertown – Brewers Association site, as well as registration for American Homebrewers Association, promoting the art and science of craft brewing, including information about local events
• Beer News – The Craft Beer News Leader
• Realbeer – News, articles, forum, and education
• Pubquest – Craft Brewery and Brewpub Locator featuring a handy Google maps mashup
• Ratebeer – Thorough resource for beer reviews and tasting notes
• European Beer Guide – Pubs, Bars, Beerhalls, Beer Gardens and Breweries throughout Europe
• Beer Education – Do some learning & pass it on
• Here’s to Beer – Cool, interactive beer education site
• GreatBrewers – Locate specific craft beers at stores and bars near you

Homebrewing

• The Brewing Network – Headquarters for a bad-ass homebrewing live web-radio show that doesn’t take itself too seriously but still provides great information and endless beer-geek comedy. Also includes a homebrewing forum.
• Mr. Malty – Straight-forward, handy homebrewing calculators and tools from Ninkasi Homebrewing Award winner Jamil Zainasheff (Ninkasi was the Sumerian goddess of beer)
• Beer Judge Certification Program – Become a certified beer-tasting judge, or find info about local homebrew contests
• Freshops – Online source for hops and hop rhizomes for home cultivation
• Brew Your Own – Homebrewing magazine
• TastyBrew – Resource and recipe database, complete with recipes, forums, brewing calculators, user journals, and more!
• The Beer Recipator – Brew calculators and plenty of recipes, both extract and all-grain
• How to Brew – Full online version of the bible of homebrewing, written by John Palmer

Blogs, Fun, Etc.

• Beer Haiku Daily – Pure drunken poetry
• Beer Flavor Wheel – Handy diagram to pinpoint tastes and aromas
• Brew Like A Monk – blog of brewing author Stan Hieronymous
• Legends of Beer – News, reviews, and trivia
• The Beer Wench – She admittedly has a gueuze fetish, and is drinking through the world, one beer at a time
• The Beer Babe’s Brew Reviews – Reviews of craft beer, breweries and brewpubs from the Beer Babe
• Beer and Blog – Weekly meet-ups of bloggers helping bloggers while drinking beer
• Visit Belgium – Belgium for Beer Lovers website
• Craft Beer on Twitter – An ever-evolving list of breweries on social network Twitter

Craft Brewing in South Florida

• Inlet Brewing Company – Jupiter, FL diviners of organic Belgian style Monk in the Trunk
• The Corner Cafe and Brewery – Tequesta, FL
• Titanic Brewery Restaurant – Coral Gables, FL
• Big Bear Brewing Company – Coral Gables, FL
• Gordash Brewing Company – Fort Lauderdale, FL brewers of Holy Mackerel Beers
• The Abbey Brewing Co. – Miami Beach, FL
• BX Beer Depot – South Florida’s Only Homebrew Supply Shop

This list, admittedly just a bubble in the pint glass of the online beer world, will be updated every now and then so please feel free to comment and plug your site, blog, brewery, etc. The important thing is to pour your beer knowledge all over those around you so the world will become more educated about the joys of craft brewing.

Prost!