Homebrewing & Craftbrewing Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations




Welcome to the Fatty Matty Brewing Homebrewing & Craftbrewing Definitions. This glossary serves up acronyms, abbreviations, beer tasting words and other fermented beverage terms. This dictionary reference tool will continue to grow as we add terminology about the brewing processes, brewing equipment and ingredients and descriptions of beer tasting terms. Please take a minute to visit the sources for this brewing encyclopedia at the footer of this site.





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This beer and brewing glossary does not include many definitions for beer styles, beer ingredient profiles. These style and ingredient profile references (and cool brewing tools) can be found in the below sections of fattymattybrewing.com.

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Water Amounts Calculator


Thanks to the following sources
Home Brew Digest Logo Michael Uchima
Mike's Big Brewing Glossary
The Foam Rangers Homebrew Club Logo The Foam Rangers Homebrew Club
The Foampage - Brewing Glossary
Brew Your Own Magazine Logo Brew Your Own Magazine
BYO Brewing Glossary
Brewwiki.com Icon BrewWiki.com by Brad Smith
The Brewing Encyclopedia
Merchant du Vin Logo Merchant du Vin Glossary of Tasting Terms
sallys-place.com Logo Sally's Place
Beer Lexicon: Terms to Impress Your Friends
Siebel Institute of Technology Logo Siebel Institute of Technology
World Brewing Academy Online Brewing Dictionary
Homebrewing For Dummies by Marty Nachel Book Cover Wiley Publishing, Inc./ Marty Nachel
Homebrewing For Dummies
The Complet Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian Book Cover Quill HarperResource/ Charlie Papazian
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing 3rd Ed.
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