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03-21-2006, 04:59 AM
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Der Administrator
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How many home brewers in US?
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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.
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03-21-2006, 05:29 AM
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The best place I know to look would be the Brewer's Association. I poked around their website, but didn't find anything.
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03-21-2006, 05:49 AM
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Der Administrator
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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.
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03-21-2006, 05:49 AM
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Der Administrator
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What is the largest home brew forum in regards to membership?
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03-21-2006, 06:44 AM
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Sounds like a great poll question.
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03-21-2006, 06:45 AM
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Don't count me, I'm Canadian. My brother however, is american living Canada, uh-oh this just got more complicated...
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03-22-2006, 07:45 AM
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Both of my grandparents on my mother's side are from Canada, which makes me half Canadian, right, oops.. ehy?   |
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03-22-2006, 04:16 PM
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Cranky Old Guy
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AHA says about 1.2 million
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03-22-2006, 04:19 PM
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I use secondaries. :p
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Originally Posted by TxBrew
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.
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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.
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03-22-2006, 04:26 PM
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I use secondaries. :p
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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.
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