Recipes.

There are hundreds of books and dozens of homebrewing sites.

Like anything, it all depends on what you want. Start with books by old hands at the homebrew trade, get the basics down, branch out.

Google around for homebrew supply websites, examine their book offerings, look for reviews of said books on google.

If you have a good homebrew gear store near you, wander in look at what they have, ask questions. Ask for tried and true books.

Google around for articles on the varieties of hops and hopping systems. There are some good articles around. Hops has probably more than anything to do with what beer you get than about anything else, except light, amber, dark.

Then check yeasts. Ale yeast is different then lager beer yeast, et al. There are lots of yeasts to chose from. The secrets of starting a yeast culture.

Malt, extracts, start from scratch grain? I used to use malt, cheap, hard to screw up. Avoid the cheap canned extracts.

This will give you a good head start to understanding the basics. There is actually a LOT to be found to start from with google.

I have only had one problem, a kit said that I could add more sugar to the primary and it caused too much foam clogging the trap and the lid blew off. I have gotten a larger primary.

Use a blow-off tube for the krausening period; and run it into a bowl; that way the stuff doesn't blow off the trap and 'stuff' doesn't run all over the floor. If you fill the bowl with water though, it sometimes does get sucked back into the carboy from my experience.