A list of ingredient variations and flavor/impact?

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peripatetic

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Hey there. Is there a "master list" anywhere of the most popular types of grains, malts, hops, yeasts, and what characteristics each has? I'm looking for a fairly simple kind of thing structured something like this. What do y'all think?

Extract
Pilsen -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses
Extra Pale -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses
Extra Pale Dry -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses
Pale -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses
Amber -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses
Dark -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses
Etc. -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses

Hops
Cascade -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/early vs late addition
Columbus -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/early vs late addition
Kent Golding -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/early vs late addition
Nugget -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/early vs late addition
etc.

Yeast
Nottingham -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/flavor characteristics/high gravity-worth?
Safale-04 -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/flavor characteristics/high gravity-worth?
Safale-05 -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/flavor characteristics/high gravity-worth?
etc.

Base Grains
Dingemans Pale
Rahr 2-Row
Rahr 2-Row Pale
etc.

Specialty Grains
Simpsons CaraMalt -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/flavor characteristics
munich?crystal? (saw these somewhere, not sure what it is)

Additives
dextrose/corn sugar -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/flavor characteristics
maltodextrin -- 1-2 sentence description/typical uses/flavor characteristics
caramel 60? candi? (saw these somewhere, not sure what it is)
 
Typically on those sites, they have a list of links, and I have to click on each link to get a description. I know I'm being picky, but it would be far more helpful if I could look at all of those descriptions side-by-side.
 
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