Brewing Beer and the Internet

The internet has touched everything, and brewing beer at home is no exception. For better or worse, the whole world has been changed with the growth of the Internet. You can have conversations with people living as far away from you as it ispossible, you can buy items from a Mom & Pop store in a village in another nation, and you can observe sporting eventstaking place in front of hundreds or thousands of people in a nation you've never visited.

The internet has exploded in no small part due to its social aspect. There's social networking (which can consume so much of a person's time that it's been called "social not working"), blogs and online forums that provide a means for people to share info as well as debate or ask for help. And for a first time brewer whohas just recently started brewing beer, there's a great advantage to having this capability. You're sure to make at least of few attempts to get your home brew just right, and you may wonder if you're doing anything wrong...or right!

The huge amount ofinformation available on the internet ensures that you'll get the answers to the many questions that arise when brewing beer. This is when the internet can be your friend. Then again, the internet could actually be a new brewer's enemy due to the huge amount of information, and not all of it is quality information. Finding useful tips and advice for brewing beer can be time consuming and frustrating. You might search for "brewing beer" and end up digging your way through an overwhelming amount ofinformation before you finally get what you're looking for.

Many of the people on beer brewing Internet forums have experienced the exact same challenges you're experiencing as you begin brewing beer. They will know how they fixed the problem when they battled it and they'll usually be willing to sharetheir solutionwith you. Since most home brewers are non-commercial, they won't see you as a competitor in a serious sense and will usually be glad tohelp you out. This can make all the difference to a person new to brewing beer. Prior to the internet, the sharing of ideas for home brewing had to be done through what's now called snail mail, over the phone, or duringin-person conversations. Magazines were, and often still are, very useful resources too. However, it's difficult to do better than the ability tomake contact with the worldwidegroups of home brewers to get advice when you've just stated brewing beer.

I would encourage the face to face option when getting advice about brewing beer from a master brewer, but for most peoplethis won't be an option. Nevertheless, the internet has allowed master brewers to share what they know in a way that makes it easily accessible to almost everyone. Brewmasters don't have to write a book or an article for a magazine, they can quickly and easily type a few lines of words and click send or save. Has the internet helped to make us better at brewing beer? I think so, and I think many people take for granted thehuge wealth of knowledge we all have access to in mere milliseconds. What a wonderful world!

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