How many home brewers in US?
 

Anyone seen a statistic of roughly how many home brewers there are in the US? Always wondered that. Around here there are quite a few people who home brew but living up North, Iowa, I rarely met anyone who did.

The best place I know to look would be the Brewer's Association. I poked around their website, but didn't find anything.

BYO lists "91,000 readers every issue"

So I will assume at least 91k. Seems like quite a few. I thought it would be much lower.

What is the largest home brew forum in regards to membership?

Sounds like a great poll question.

Don't count me, I'm Canadian. My brother however, is american living Canada, uh-oh this just got more complicated...

Both of my grandparents on my mother's side are from Canada, which makes me half Canadian, right, oops.. ehy? :confused: :D

AHA says about 1.2 million

91k seems like it would be way too low. I'm sure there are a lot of homebrewers that don't subscribe to BYO. I, personally, have never looked at a single issue of the mag, nor have 4 of my friends in OH that homebrew, so...

the 1.2 million quote seems more reasonable to me, but I'd like to know where they get the data from.

-walker

the population of the US is just about 300,000,000, so if there are 1.2 million homebrewers, that's one HB'er for every 300 people.

That 1.2 Million number DOES seem a little high when you look at it that way.

-walker