University research into home brewing.

[JabbA]

Done! Could maybe do with some clarification/quantification on some of the questions, my 19 litre batches would be classed as small on some of the setups on here

Good luck.

Cheers,
Jamie

[duncangordon]

Thank you everyone! Really appreciate the support.

Duncan

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

Done. you have put in a lot thought into the questions. Best of luck.

[BrewBoyJoe]

Done! Couldn't resist a few passing swipes at Dundee since I used to live there!

[bquiggerz]

Just completed this

[scotsloon]

Done!

[BrewBoyJoe]

Hi Duncan,
I would be interested to read the outcome of this interesting project. Perhaps you could post it on the forum. Is this research of a business studies or science nature? For example I’d like to understand the demographics of the home brewing market a bit more! While I know many, many women who love a decent pint of craft beer, I can’t recall having ever met a female homebrewer. I appreciate there is something very male about tinkering around in sheds and then combined with the end product… beer! It’s easy to understand why more men than women get involved!

Also, I would be interested to know if the background of homebrewers is more likely to be technical; scientists and engineers! Furthermore, how does this breakdown for kit vs all grain brewing. Not that it is necessary to take a highly technical approach, since software will do all the recipe adjustments and calculations these days in any case! But I would have thought that for example biochemists would be naturally drawn to this type of hobby!

A few pointers on your survey. While it was well crafted in the main, I thought a few of the blanket star rating questions didn’t make a lot of sense. For example, durability … marks out of 10! Well it’s horses for courses isn’t it! For some of the important bits of kit such as mash tun brew kettle, you’d be willing to pay a decent amount for and get decent kit that holds its heat / holds its form respectively! But for plastic containers and other bits and bobs often you may as well get the cheapest because there is no good reason not to!

With surveys and statistics as a whole, yes or no answers, while they are useful in terms of arguing conclusions, surveys have to be designed with a lot of care in order to generate a meaningful outcome.

This article I read a few days ago in the guardian sums it up perfectly:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/brai ... e-your-own

I hope this work goes well. Good luck with the write up!

[GeeThom]

Brewboy joe

It may be a good idea for a thread to find out different peoples backgrounds, what got them into brewing and where they live.
I myself am a scientist and explanation will be biased toward a science explanation rather than of an empirical nature
Having basic information of this kind may form the basis of building connections between people in the same area who wish to collaborate. I would suggest

Background/job
Area location
How may years brewing
Favourite beer style or type ( all beers, lager IPA, belgian Wheat, sour etc)
Age (maybe, does it matter?)
Willing to meet and brew in a local area on an ad hoc basis.


Duncan, I have Completed the survey!

[MadMarble]

Done. Good luck.

[BluePanda]

Also done.

[6470zzy]

Done and dusted

[McMullan]

Me too. Good luck with it, mate. I hope my response was informative and entertaining. I really do live among the proto-hillbillies, by the way. It's 'brilliant', they crack me up daily.

[stu-le-brew]

another entry done for your survey

good luck

[kearnage]

Done

[Rogermort]

Done.