beer - links to Other Sites

A growing list of interesting web sites ...
and other places to visit.

	The Compuserve Beer (and wine, etc. .. ) forum can now be accessed by anyone with a valid e-mail address. Click on the link, or type go.compuserve.com/wine in your browser's address box, and you will find yourself confronted with a sign-in screen. First timers will need to select a screen name and a password; returnees simply sign in and you will be allowed to enter the forum. In the beer-related forum sections, you will usually find numerous on-going discussions about all aspects of beer making and drinking - feel free to join in; we're generally flame-free, and the forum's position is that the only dumb question is the one that's not asked. The forum also has an extensive searchable library of beer information collected over the years. The Compuserve beer world is a valuable resource to brewers of all experience backgrounds, and it is now available to anybody who wants to visit.
	Legend Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia - great brews (especially their Brown Ale) and great hospitality - "The Unicorn goes where the Clydesdales fear to tread ... "; If you visit their website, you should know that they brew a lot better than they produce websites. For a second opinion re. the Legend brews, visit the Virginia Beer Expedition - this is their online review.
	What's Brewing, Inc., located in Northfield, NJ, is where I've been buying most of my ingredients and supplies lately. They supply a complete line of homebrewing supplies and equipment. I interface via e-mail (wbrewing@aol.com) and order whatever I want in whatever quantities are called for by my current recipe .. they use a digital scale and bag to order (e.g., 2 oz. of Chocolate; 2 oz. of Special Roast; 8 oz. of Victory; and 16 oz. of 40L Crystal crushed, bagged, and vacuum-sealed plus no need to buy 2 oz. of hops if you only want 0.5 oz.) .. they will special order anything, and everything I've ever received is fresh goods - phone number is 609-485-2021. If you've brewed long enough to be familiar with conventional ingredients and don't really need a catalog to work up a recipe, you can't beat this type of interface ..
	The Grape and Granary is a great source of Homebrew supplies - check out their website or call them at 800-695-9870. They produce a very comprehensive catalog (IMHO, one of the best ...), maintain a well-stocked inventory (I've never ordered anything out of stock), and ship the day you place the order ... hard to beat !!
	The Garden State Craft Brewers Guild (www.njbeer.org) maintains an updated map of New Jersey showing the location of all Microbreweries and Brewpubs in the state. The map is hot-linked to specific information about each facility including website links. If you want to know who's brewing what in the Garden State, this is a great resource.
	I coached St. Mary's (New Monmouth, NJ) grade school track team for 17 years before retiring in 1996. Over the last several years of coaching, I kind of evolved into the Monmouth-Ocean Counties Parochial Track League Coordinator ... The league's website is evolving but currently includes meet results, records' lists, and other information of interest to members of the league as well as anyone else involved with youth track and field.
	Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation doesn't have much to do with beer; except we used to build breweries along with a whole bunch of other stuff like power and petrochemical plants ... anyone need one of those ..??

Some other sites that may be of interest ...

Brewer's Workshop (website no longer online? The file is available in the library at the Compuserve wine forum referenced above .. look for BREWSHP.ZIP) - this shareware is a great tool for the homebrewer. Produced by Tom Nelson (TKO Software), Brewer's Workshop allows you to create recipes of any style with ease. It has the most accurate color predictor that I know of; the only one I know of that can produce on-the-money projections for darker brews (lov. > 14 or thereabouts and higher .. ). There is also a water chemistry calculator that will calculate salt additions in convenient units (ozs, grams, teaspoons .. take your pick) for you based on your local water and the beer style you are brewing (don't need it; don't use it)! Additionally, there is a boil calculator, mash graphing, ingredients inventory control, unlimited size for your brewing notes, a 50 point AHA scoresheet in you want to rank your own brews .. no cheating!! .. and, if you provide the info, it even displays the price per bottle. The recipe printouts are well organized and informative showing the contributions of each component re. gravity, color, or IBUs, a great feature for developing a new recipe. The recipes can also be exported to a text file (which I've made extensive use of in developing my Recipes Page!!
For links to breweries, beer gadgets galore, personal beer pages, or anything related in any way to the subject of beer, try the WWW Virtual Library's Beer & Brewing Index, but be prepared to spend hours ...
If you've got a little time on your hands, try the The Real Beer Page or The Brewery; while you are visiting the Real Beer Page, a "not to miss" sublisting is Spencer's Beer Page ... if you need beer-related info and can't find it at one of these sites, either you aren't looking right or it just doesn't exist ... Happy Browz'n !!
To visit Beertown, the Association of Brewers' home page, follow this link ...
If you are going to visit my town, prepare yourself with a trip to the New York City Beer Guide, (and yes, it does include Jersey links!)...
SUDS - shareware is another program you can use to file or formulate recipes, keep brewing notes, and determine properties of your brews - it doesn't do a very good job with color projections, however. If color is of no concern, it's not as complex as Brewer's Workshop, has an easy to use interface, and otherwise is a very good program for the homebrewer ... a/o April 2002, there was a SUDS 6.1 for Windows 9x/NT/ME/2000 or WinCE available which I haven't tested yet .. fwiw