Homebrewers are now on the Internet and well represented in Online Services. If you enjoy such connections then you can join one of the many international Homebrew forums by using e-mail. A question will elicit responses and tips from all over the world. The Homebrewer will soon be able to send his own news, take part in discussions, pass on his recipes online or leave tips on the pinboard. This is an international hobby which will broaden horizons and begin to make the beer drinker look far beyond his own beer mat.
Brewing is a biological and completely natural process.
Technology merely offers biology the optimum conditions for development and by controlling the parameters, these living systems are steered in the right direction. Brewers concern themselves with life and they realise that living systems can be influenced but not controlled. Despite the perfection of our technological control systems, every decoction remains a little different. Brewing means understanding living processes. Brewing does need technology.