{"id":57,"date":"2008-03-20T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beersmith.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/new-brewpoll-home-brewing-and-craft-beer-news-site\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T20:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T00:05:47","slug":"new-brewpoll-home-brewing-and-craft-beer-news-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/new-brewpoll-home-brewing-and-craft-beer-news-site\/","title":{"rendered":"New BrewPoll Home Brewing and Craft Beer News Site"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re pleased to announce the launch of the BrewPoll Home Brewing and Craft Beer News Site. After launching into the Web 2.0 with BrewWiki <\/a>a few years ago and our BeerSmith blog<\/a> the last few months, we’ve been fascinated with the way that many new social sites are able to find and promote the “best of the web”.<\/p>\n

Home brewing and craft beer is no exception – in fact there are over 200 active beer and brewing blogs boasting over 20,000 articles. The web has become unimaginably large – a search of simple terms like “Home Brewing” brings up 1.8 million web sites.<\/p>\n

How can the average homebrewer cut through the chaff? Sites like Digg.com<\/a>, Slashdot <\/a>and Newsvine <\/a>are increasingly important sources of interesting (non-brewing) news and help readers zone in on quality content.<\/p>\n

The concept behind all of these sites is that users can submit news articles to the site, and then vote on which articles they like best. The most popular articles are promoted to the front page. Digg, the largest, boasts millions of visitors each day. Unfortunately many social sites have little or no homebrewing presence.<\/p>\n

We loved the concept behind sites like Digg, but could not find a suitable site dedicated to home brewing or craft beer. The time seemed right to create a Web 2.0 news site dedicated to homebrewing and craft beer. Here it is:<\/p>\n