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Beer Podcasts

Brew Bubbas
Jamil Zainasheff's Style Podcasts and Recipes
Basic Brewing Radio
Brew Crazy This guy brewed a 20%+ all-grain beer, that is definitely crazy.
Craft Beer Radio Home brewing from down under.
Big Foamy Head
The Brewing Network
The Good Beer Show

Beer Chat Boards

Tastybrew Tasty Brew
BrewBoard The "Green Board"
The Northern Brewer Homebrew Forum
Morebeer's Brew Chat
Home of HBD's The Brewery's Brews & Views
Aussie Home Brewer
The Beer Advocate Beer Forum
The Brewing Network Forum

Brewing Software

Both BeerSmith and ProMash are awesome programs, both have downloadable trials. Try them both and use the one that you like best.
BeerSmith
ProMash

Decoctions

Decoction Mashing a micro-FAQ by Marc de Jonge
Two Step Decoction for an All Grain Pilsner with pictures
Decoction Mashing, Part 1 Demystification of the Decoction Mash
Decoction Mashing, Part 2 Decoction Mashing at Home
The Great Decoction Experiment Denny Conn
Decoction Mashing
How to Brew Decoction Mashing, by John Palmer

No Sparge

No Sparge Brewing
How to Brew by John Palmer. The online book, buy the second edition. This is a must read for the new brewer.
Mechanics Of No Sparge Brewing By Jeffrey Donovan.
Excel Spreadsheet
The Lazy Brewer’s Guide to Mashing by Randy Mosher

Batch Sparge

What are the pros and cons of batch sparging?
Guide to Batch Sparging
Batch-Sparging
A "Cooler" Way to Ease into All-Grain Brewing by John Palmer
Cheap 'n' Easy Batch Sparge Brewing "DennyBrew"
Cheap 'n' Easy Batch Sparge Brewing

Partial Mash

An introduction to partial mash brewing
Beer the Partial-Mash Way
Your First All-Grain Batch -- Partial Mash Option

Steeping

What's the best way to steep specialty grains, but still reduce tannins?

Brewing Your First Beer

How to Brew Your First Beer by John Palmer
Your First Brew
FAQ Specialty Malts Cargill Malt Specialty Products Group, Malt Team FAQ - Brewing

Hops

Hop Descriptions
USDA Named Hop Variety descriptions
Oregon Hop Commission
Freshop Varieties
Hopunion Variety Databook (PDF)
Hops Varieties
Hops Web Pages University of Vermont
European Varieties offered by Joh. Barth
Yakima Chief Hop Varieties
Hops for Flavour
Varieties of hops grown in the UK
Hops from England
Hop Varieties and their Brewing Characteristics
Hop Varieties (UK)

Yeast

Yeast Propagation and Maintenance: Principles and Practices by the Maltose Falcons MB Raines-Casselman, Ph.D.
Proper Yeast Pitching Rates by Jamil Zainasheff WYEAST yeast descriptions
White Labs yeast descriptions
DCL SafAle (S-04), SafLager (S-23)
Fermentis SafLagerS-23, S-04, US-56, T-58, S-33

Styles

BJCP Style Guidelines
Brewers Association 2006 Beer Style Guidelines   PDF