Earlier this year, I asked homebrewers to complete a fairly long survey with a bunch of questions unrelated to brewing, mostly to satiate my uncanny desire to know more about my beer loving peers. I called it the General Homebrewer Survey and the response was incredible with over 2,000 people participating. It took a little while, but I finally finished writing the article presenting the information gleaned from this survey. Perhaps you’ll be as intrigued as I was with the results.
That was a neat survey, thanks for sharing!
That was fun to read.
Very interesting. Obviously a LOT of work to tally and interpret all those stats.
Thanks!
Great job on the survey, Marshall ! Pretty interesting.
Thanks for sharing the results. It was an interesting read. I’m on the fence on whether I prefer to see this kind of stuff in pie/bar graph format, or the more descriptive format you used. I appreciate the commentary, but my analytical side tents to want to interpret these things using a chart.
I’ll be interested in comparing that to the survey Drew and I did.
The AHA survey results from 2013.
Educated, married or in partnership, young and fairly high income. Similar resutls.
It’s always nice to see I’m an outlier. ;D
Paul
Yeah, definitely a little above the 30-39 range. 
That was an interesting read! Nice job on putting it all together!
A little? Try almost double!
;D ;D
My browser glitched for a second as I was reading this post, and at first I thought it said “Educated, married or in partnership, young and fairly handsome.”
I qualify for the first two, last two, not young, and not handsome. I am handy. ;D
I got a kick out of what the stats say at the end of the article. Most homebrewers brew hop forward American ales with untreated tap water, yet they know that the key to better beer is proper water treatment. They dont know anything about hot side aeration, DMS, FMH, or decoction. They think wirlflock is a clarity cure all. AND… they think this forum is the worst.
Ya, why would you want to use this forum? You make hoppy ales and know they’d be way better if you did water additions, and guys like Martin are right here ready and willing to walk you through it. But… Naaaaw, that forum sucks.
Awesome perspective again Jim!
That’s an interesting point, and now whenever I see “HBT” I read “horse blinder” before I think “homebrew.”
But what would I know? I’m the guy that put in a RO system for brewing water but still relies on ambient temps for fermentation.
I don’t think the point was that people thought this forum sucks, just that it is not terribly popular. I suspect Marshall has built a significant following over there so the results are self-selective in favor of reddit and its brewers.
I would rather the masses of reddit not flood this forum.
yeah, some people seem to have trouble with separating “biggest” or “most popular” or “favorite”…from “best”
Marshall - good stuff, thanks.