WELCOME TO THE ACADEMY OF HOMEBREW FANATICS

Hi! I’m Sam...

Homebrewer, Craft Brewer & Founder of Homebrew Fanatics!

When I first started brewing 15 years ago I was just like you... excited about this opportunity to brew my very own beer at home...

In the beginning I made mistakes... lots of mistakes! I could tell I made mistakes because my beer tasted nothing like my favourite craft beers.

I was ok with that though... I was just pumped to actually be able to brew something that resembled beer in my own home.

But then a meet up with some local homebrewers changed everything...

Their beer tasted nothing like mine and more resembled my favourite craft beer!

I now knew it was possibly to brew craft quality beer at home!

But there must of been something I was missing in my brewing process... why didn’t my beer taste like craft beer?

I was hooked and determined to learn how...

From that point I was constantly consuming every bit of brewing related content I could find. Brewing books, brewing videos, podcasts, forums...

I eventually stepped up my learning...

The quest to making craft quality beer at home took me through a wave of experiences from landing work in winery, studying a winemaking degree, becoming a head brewer and eventually finding my way into one of Australia’s leading craft breweries, Bridge Road Brewers...

Through all these learnings and experiences I was able take my brewing knowledge to another level!

On top of this I had a major epiphany moment...

All the techniques and knowledge I was learning could be simply incorporated and replicated into a homebrew environment...

Plus they were learnings that I hadn’t previously come across in common homebrewing information sources....

I couldn’t have asked for a better blueprint  in my quest to learning the art of producing craft quality beer at home

There was one problem though... my involvement in the commercial brewing industry meant that I began to loose my connection with the Homebrewing community....

I had my dream job... I should have been happy... but I wasn’t.

I knew that connecting back with homebrewing community was important and I also knew that I had a lot of knowledge to pass onto the current generation of homebrewers.

I stepped away from the commercial brewing scene with one dedicated mission to pass on my knowledge and help homebrewers create their own craft beer at home...

I couldn’t be happier!

There is nothing more rewarding now then seeing homebrewers learn and implement my knowledge into their own beer brewing process...