![]() ![]() ![]() Now you're more just making beer that is more in line with the classic styles, but maybe using your modern ingredients or modern processes. And now I always see a lot of people making Czech dark lager, German pills, or something more traditional. I'm making this kettle sour with these fruit adjuncts and blah blah blah." And this hazy IPA with all these new hops. "When I got back into the hobby three years ago, I was seeing a lot of experimentation, like a lot of weird, crazy stuff. I've seen a lot more focus back on classic styles. What type of beers are homebrewers currently interested in? They're making just as good of a beer as you could with your traditional three-vessel setup. We're seeing people brew that way and have success. What do you attribute to the change in stigma? If you're making beer, you're homebrewing, right? So a lot of things to make the hobby more accessible means you buy less equipment and you can spend less time out of your day. Five years ago, you would look at something like an all-in-one system or a brew-in-a-bag setup as fake homebrewing. What has recently gone out of fashion in homebrewing?Ī lot of homebrewing has moved to streamline the brew-day process. This would've been great to know starting out because I bought tons of stuff that I ended up not needing. We have a paying member who has never made a beer before, but they wanted to get into the hobby and have been asking us questions about what equipment to buy. Some people have been brewing for a month. Some members have been brewing for 20 years. People will jump on you if you ask a silly question or something if you don't have much experience. We know that a lot of times, especially like some of these communities on Facebook, they can get very in-group/ out-group. We make a point to be as welcoming and inclusive as possible for people. We could see the difference and didn't have to make six different batches of beer to see the impact of an ingredient. Then we sent each other our beers so that everyone could try them. ![]() We all brewed the same beer with the different concentrates. ![]() And then, the Incognito, which is the liquid hop extract I mentioned earlier. Yakima Valley Hops provided regular hop pellets, the concentrated Lupo Max version, which is a concentrated hop product, but still in the pellet form. One of the great things about Brewtubers is we do a lot of beer shares and experiment series For instance, we experimented last summer with different hop products. It'll leave this like an oily residue, but don't worry about it. People said, "Make sure you warm it up and use the whirlpool. They sent the club a new liquid hop extract. We recently experimented with Yakima Valley Hops. What’s an example of a helpful information exchange? "Like, does anyone have a good recipe? What kind of hops would you use in that? Or, There’s this new product-has anyone used it before? Can you give me some tips? It's just great to have a community with a niche hobby like homebrewing." So the big benefit to me is just to have that resource to ask questions. When I started home brewing, I knew one other homebrewer who didn't live near me at all. What are the benefits of a homebrewing club? The interview has been edited for length and clarity. We talked to Eric Cumming, Brewtubers’ Club Ambassador, about the value of a homebrewing community, new trends, and how the stigma of all-in-one systems is fading. The group meets once per month online but also maintains active communication on Discord, the social media platform. Groups like Brewtubers, an online homebrewer club, allow members to exchange ideas and recipes and help each other out along their homebrewing journeys. And camaraderie can save money, time, and heartache from big mistakes. Collaboration helps with exponential knowledge gains. Homebrewing is a lot of trial and error, especially for the inexperienced. ![]()
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