Dan Conley from Community Beer Works talks at BarCamp Buffalo 5 about how homebrewing and IT overlap. Seriously, you should homebrew.

1. You should brew your own beer
Dan Conley, Community Beer Works

2. Wait, hold on
• What does beer have to do with IT?
• It's your job to sell me beer. Why are
you telling me to do it myself?

3. Allow me to make some
sweeping generalizations
about you.

4. You like to do things yourself
• See a problem, code a
solution
• Create something from
nothing
• Why pay someone else
when you can do it?

5. You like to tinker
• Brewing is just compiling
a recipe from the source
ingredients
• Troubleshoot
• Tweak something, see
what happens

6. Toys!
• You can make beer with a
$95 starter kit and $40 for
each additional batch
• OR: you can buy hundreds
of dollars of equipment
• There is always something
you can upgrade
• Toys are awesome

7. Why do you hate money?

8. Homebrewing is gazing into the abyss
• The more you know, the
more you appreciate
• From Saranac mixed
packs to Blue Monk
• Embeer Buffalo!

9. Cool. Where do I sign
up?

10. Homebrew stores
Niagara Tradition
1296 Sheridan Dr
Tonawanda, NY 14217
http://www.nthomebrew.com
Let's Do Wine
5864 Transit Rd
Depew, NY 14043
http://www.letsdowine.com

11. Homebrew clubs
Niagara Association of Homebrewers
President: Keith Curtachio
brewer1st@gmail.com
Sultans of Swig
President: Dan Baish
dbaish@gmail.com

12. Questions?
dan@communitybeerworks.com
@Sigafoos
@communitybeer