Brewing does need technology. You don't need to understand it from the inside and you will have fun brewing good beer. Your computer can help you brew if that is what you want. Whether it is as a recipe store, which with time, will become an instruction manual for the system, or as an aid to help regulate the brewing conditions, or accessing world wide online discussions with other Homebrewers, or maybe designing bottle labels and prospectuses and printing invitations to social gatherings to taste the last extract, your PC will find applications. Measuring, controlling and regulating a live reactive system is a motivation to write the best program, use it and swap it with others.
Brewers have one problem fewer than others.
They will no longer have to crack their brains to find a suitable present. A bottle of self-brewed beer with a specially designed label for the recipient and the occasion, whether a birthday, wedding or christening, will always be fitting. The variety of the beer served can be governed by the occasion and a special beer, just like its brewer, will always be welcome. The brewer is never short of conversation. Everyone likes talking about beer.