Brewing-related E-mail lists

E-mail lists come in two forms: digests and reflectors. Some are moderated but most are not.

The Homebrew Digest

The grand-daddy of homebrewing mailing lists, it started before 1988.

• All homebrewing-related topics are fair game, from first batches to esoteric brewing chemistry.
• Interesting and useful for beginning to advanced brewers.
• Over10,000 subscribers.
• For a long time, it was a daily digest.
• Now available as a digest, or a reflector. Digests are sent when they "fill up."
• Here's a sample.
• homebrew-request@aob.org to subscribe
• homebrew@aob.org to send a message to the list.
• Messages since 1988 are archived in several places:
• Stanford homebrew archives, ftp://ftp.stanford.edu/pub/clubs/homebrew/beer
• Spencer's Beer Page, http://realbeer.com/spencer/

The Lambic Digest

• Dedicated to disussion about brewing Lambic (and other Belgian style) beers.
• Irregular digest.
• A sample.
• lambic-request@longs.lance.colostate.edu to subscribe
• lambic@longs.lance.colostate.edu to send messages
• Messages are archived as above.

The Mead Lover's Digest

• Discussions about making Mead
• Very irregular digest.
• A sample.
• mead-request@talisman.com to subscribe
• mead@talisman.com to send messages
• Messages are archived as above.

The Cider Digest

• Discussions about making Cider
• Irregular digest.
• A sample.
• cider-request@talisman.com to subscribe
• cider@talisman.com to send messages
• Messages are archived at Stanford.

JudgeNet

• The beer judge digest.
• Dedicated to the discussion of issues of interest to beer judges and competition organizers.
• To subscribe: send mail to judge-request@synchro.com with the line:

subscribe address first_name last_name rank

Where rank is your BJCP rank, if any.

• Send messages to judge@synchro.com
• A sample.
• Messages are archived at Spencer's Beer Page.