This page is a list of various links that I've collected and used for beer tasting, evaluation, purchasing, homebrewing, and other information.
Charlie Papazian's Beer Town (and Association of Brewers), All About Beer, Michael Jackson is the Beer Hunter, the BrewInfo page
Learn to judge and rate beers at the Beer Judge Certification Program, and look at the BJCP Beer Style Guidelines. Hobnob with fellow judges at JudgeNet. Practice your BJCP Styles at my BJCP Parameters Practice Program or use MarkT's excellent list of links BJCP study guide.
Get homebrewing equipment and supplies at: Hearts Homebrew, Northern Brewer (equipment, supplies, conicals), The Pantry (Clearwater FL), Midwest Supplies, Crosby Baker, Alternative Beverage, Cellar Homebrew, Beer Nut, MiniBrew (conical fermenters), U-Brew, Blichmann Engineering (conical fermenters, etc).
Get hops at Fresh Hops, Hops From England, Hop Union, Yakima, malts at Briess, Coopers, Muntons, Brewers Supply Group (Briess, Castle, Crisp, Durst, Gambrinus, Gilbertson&Page, Rahr, Simpsons, Weyermann), Specialty Malts (Cargill, Dingemans, Gilbertson&Page, Meussdoerffer, Pauls), Weyermann, and yeast at White Labs and WYeast.
If you need some software to help you calculate recipes, there's my own set of Hops and Malt calculation tools, or look at ProMash or Strange Brew or BeerSmith or BrewWizard or Beer Tools. Lots of recipes at Cats Meow or Cyberbrau.
Need some beer theory? Try the American Society of Brewing Chemists. Other (membership required) resources are available at ProBrewer. Also try out Brewing Science, and Brewing Techniques magazine and their back issues. Also, Doctor Beer has lots of interesting info and beer doctoring techniques to learn about taste and aroma profiles. If you want to build your own stuff, check out Marty's Counter Pressure Bottle Filler and other gadgets that he has.
For Sake info, check out here or here. You will also need koji rice.
For Real Ale, check out the CAMRA site. To learn about Belgian beer, check out this, including a guide to pronounciation. Get some beer history. For mead info, see Got Mead
Sample some of 110 beers at Old Chicago and join the World Beer Tour. OC started in Boulder, Colorado, and has stores in several states. I have completed the tour eight times: #1: Boulder CO (1990?), #2 Overland Park KS, #3 Overland Park KS, #4 Clearwater FL (09/16/2004), #5 Palm Harbor FL (05/18/2005), #6 Palm Harbor FL (03/01/2006), #7 Palm Harbor FL (08/03/2006), #8 Palm Harbor FL (03/01/2007), #9 Palm Harbor FL (09/14/2007), #10 Palm Harbor FL (03/01/2008).
If you're in Tampa/Clearwater FL and need a bottled beer, The World Of Beer has about 700 different choices. Also check the Dunedin Brewers Guild (or the old site) homebrew club, the Tampa Bay Beers homebrew club, the Florida Brewers Guild, Danny's Bottoms Up Brewery, Dunedin Brewery, and Best Florida Beer. Get a microbrew subscription at the Beer of the Month Club. Go to the GABF (Great American Beer Festival) to try micro and craft brews from around the country.
Beer reviews and brewpub locators at:
My own brewpub ratings,
Beer Advocate,
Pub Crawler,
Beer Me
Brews Traveler,
Rate Beer,
Beverage Tasting Institute,
Craft Beer Radio,
BeerPal,
Randy Mosher's Radical Brewing book has a lot of great historical and other incidental beer lore or check out John Palmer's How To Brew book.
For beer competition management, check out HCCP.
Order beer online to be delivered. Order Belgian beers (from Belgium!). If you want Stone, Lagunitas, Alaskan, etc., try Liquid Solutions or Beer On The Wall.
Beer forums:
If you're looking at this page without frames around it, try the main Build A Beer page.