A collection of holiday gift ideas for home brewers as we enter this 2009 holiday season.

Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher is a homebrewing book that defies easy description. Radical Brewing is witty, entertaining, and thoroughly enjoyable to read.

Counter pressure bottle fillers and the Blichmann Beer Gun make short work of bottling directly from the keg. These systems let you keg your home brewed beer while still maintaining the flexibility to bottle when needed for competitions as well as share a bottle of your homebrew with friends.

A look at four web 2.0 social sites for home brewers. These sites help you cut through the mass of web clutter and get fresh home brewing content on a regular basis. By participating in these sites, you can also help other brewers focus on better brewing news, stories and articles.

A review of the Barley Crusher Grain Malt Mill. The Barley Crusher is an adjustable dual roller grain mill for all grain home brewing. I chose the Barley Crusher for my home brewing mill several years ago and I’ve been very happy with it…

I recently revisited Ray Daniels’ classic work “Designing Great Beers”, a book written in 1996 and published by the Brewers Association. Though I originally read this book several years ago, I enjoyed it even more the second time. For those of you who don’t know the book, it is advertised as “The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles”…