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YoBrew Meaning: Your Brew.
NO SPAM. "We do not send bulk emails" We do not have any mailing lists .We do not add you email to any one else's email lists. Never have done. We do not bulk email news letters or any other types of info. YoBrew is under the impression that its up to you to go to our site when and if you decide you want to. If you bookmark our site then that's your choice we do not try to get you to do this. When you send us an email, what you may get is:-
*) An auto response to say we have your email and this response has some typical answers to regular questions
*) A reply from me "Stephan"
*) In My reply I sometimes CC "Pete of www.petespintpot.co.uk" if I feel out of my depth in replying to your email
Home brewing is great, especially when you share your quality brew. This site is for all of us to share our recipes, reviews, articles....
Two people are lost in the desert. They are dying from hunger and thirst. Finally, they come to a high wall. On the other side they can hear the sound of a waterfall and birds singing. Above, they can see the branches of a lush tree extending over the top of the wall. Its fruit look delicious.Both of them managed to climb over the wall and sample the delights. Instead of keeping this great place a secret one of them climbs back over the wall with plenty of provisions to help other lost travelers find their way to the oasis.
Promote
your home brew shop on YoBrew for free. Being free means
we get to keep our impartiality. All you need to do is email
us your shops details, address and your shop's land line
phone number. If you include a piece about your shop and
maybe a photo, that would be great. We will then aim to
use this on the shops page(s) of this site.
We at YoBrew share a very common
focus in today's home brew market and that focus is quality. We want today's
brewers to be as impressed as we are with the quality of the kits available
today. I have just been sharing my home brewed Barrolo, which was from
the house of beaverdale kit. The tasting party (all non brewers)
were assembled, all cautiously sniffing their glass of red, each taster
being modest with the amount they require in their glass. This red was
very good quality and that is the minimum we should aspire to. Thanks to
the house of beaverdale within this group the expectation of home brew went up big time.
There are still the odd kit that has more in the way of slogans than quality and all of us in the trade need to avoid these to ensure that home made wine and beer are as good or better than the standard shop bought ones.
Here at YoBrew we will support manufactures that focus on quality. We will point out to our visitors the true facts. If its great we say so if it says ready in 7 days in our experience it is of such poor quality that anyone desperate enough to drink it so soon should seek some sort of therapy. But we will try it first and the reviews are intended to be as impartial as possible.
We will promote quality products with pleasure
and aim to promote the facts of home brew to a wider audience. YoBrew has appeared
in the Times culture supplement. A few years back we had
some fun contributing in a TV programme.
Home brew Shops
More and more shops are now on the net and
some are trading on-line. We will make sure that our visitors hear of your
service and wish all the home brew shops the very best. Please do email us if
you have a special offer or an article you think our visitors will find
interesting. We will of course credit you and supply links to your shop
and web site.
We have just passed the 1,000,000th visitor (6th
Nov 2005). What is also most pleasing is that
the server statistics software estimates the average
time each visitor spends and this is 165 seconds. While
this is just an estimate, too me that is great. It is
one thing to get people to a site but the important
thing is that when they get there the site meets up
with their expectations. The visitor numbers is a quantity
thing and the (estimated) time visitors spend is one
of our quality measures.
We regularly deliver over 30,000 pages a month. Onwards and upwards the target for next year is 50,000 per month and three minutes per visitor. (Update the visitors are spending longer over 200 seconds on average. The traffic is not quite 50,000 but we are not far off.
About YoBrew
YoBrew stands for Your
Brew.
Aims:
1)Provide an equivalent of a shared homebrewer's log book, on the web for all home brewers to read, write and search.
By
doing this together we produce a log book that's
better than any one of us may produce alone.
Allowing
a greater audience to share this ancient skill.
2) Raise the quality of home brewing
We aim to help ourselves by not only providing tried and tested
recipes but also publishing feed back from those that have tried these. The
visitors recommendations will let the best stand
out.
3) Have fun
Everyone after all this is about sharing. Team YoBrew are a small group in the UK that do this on a voluntary basis. I Stephan Barnard initially set this site up as my own electronic brewer's log book. Then people stated to read it. This was just fine and they were most welcome. Then the visitors started to send in emails with articles, reviews. This was great and now although its officially my domain I see this as the Home brewer's electronic log book.
All text on this site is purely the contributing author's personal views and should not
be taken as fact.
No responsibility
is assumed or implied for anything
that happens as a result of reading these views.
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