I used to have a website at this address which chronicled my homebrewing adventures. Then one day, that old site died. In its wake, I made a short-lived attempt at a running a blog, that never really took root.

Eventually my documenting and sharing found a new home on Twitter. Tweeting about homebrewing has been great, but the beer posts very quickly get mixed in and swallowed up by the cacophony of the rest of my timeline.

I want something with more permanence. More focus and structure. A place to talk about making beer and drinking beer. A more organized home for my notes about recipes and projects. About equipment and techniques. About experiences with beer and the knowledge that comes from them.

Twitter has been an excellent venue for finding and making friends from all around the word who are dedicated to the culture of beer and brewing. Additionally, I found the excellent brewing software and collaboration site Hopville. I now use this site exclusively for formulating and storing my beer recipes.

Happy with the networking and recipe building aspects of these sites, I still miss the things that a dedicated Blue Water Beer site has to offer. The ability to post longer descriptions of projects, keep a library of brewing photographs and interact with other brewers in a less fleeting way. Inspired this week by a visit to Jamey Barlow’s site, I have decided to resurrect bluewaterbeer.com. My hope is that this site will be an extension of my activity on Twitter and Hopville.

I don’t know how much time I will have to actually update and maintain this site but I’m game for giving it another spin. Thanks for taking the time to check it out.

Cheers.