[tygo]

1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
 
2) What area do you reside in?
  a. Northeast
 
3). What do you do for a living?
Accountant

4). How many children do you have?
     b. 2-3
 
5). How long have you been home brewing?

    b. 1-3 years
 
6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?

    b. $1,000-$2,000


7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?

    c. Bi-Weekly

Why did you begin home brewing?
I needed a reason to get out of the house.  And I like beer.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?
Make better beer.

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    c. 3-5

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?
yahoo finance
aha forum
various news websites


12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?

This forum.  That's about it.

[s1lverfox]

[1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
   b. 36-45
   c. 46-55<<<<<<<
   d. 56+

2) What area do you reside in?
  a. Northeast
  b. South
  c. Midwest<<<<<<<<
  d. West
  e. Other

3). What do you do for a living? Manufacturing Systems Manager

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0
    b. 2-3<<<<<<<<,
    c. 4-5
    d. 5+

5). How long have you been home brewing?
    a. >1 year<<<<<<<<
    b. 1-3 years
    c. 4-7 years
    d. 7+ years

6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000<<<<<<<<<<
    b. $1,000-$2,000
    c. $2,000 +

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
    a. Daily
    b. Weekly<<<<<<<<<<
    c. Bi-Weekly

Why did you begin home brewing? It appeals to my creative side and I love good beer.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals? Learn as much as I can about the process and make the best beer possible

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    a. >1
    b. 1-2<<<<<<<<
    c. 3-5
    d. 5+

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day? Home Brewers Assn., Crackberry.com, CNN, NPR and where ever else I end up.

12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?
Twitter

Thanks again!


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[Hokerer]

1) What is your age range?
   c. 46-55

2) What area do you reside in?
  b. South

3). What do you do for a living?
  Engineer

4). How many children do you have?
    b. 2-3

5). How long have you been home brewing?
    b. 1-3 years

6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. <$1000

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
    c. Bi-Weekly

Why did you begin home brewing? Germany Vacation

9) Do you have any home brewing goals? Have fun

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    d. 5+

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?
    Techsideline.com
    Homebrewerassociation.org
    Washingtonpost.com
    CNN.com

12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?
    None really

[rabid_dingo]

Hi everyone

I'm an Advertising major doing some market research on Home Brewers and their online habits. If you could be so kind to answer some survey questions I would greatly appreciate it!  I did notice that AHA already did a survey so if you don't want to answer questions you already answered, feel free to jump to question 8.
I won't use any of this information to sell to some big company either.

1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
   b. 36-45
   c. 46-55
   d. 56+

2) What area do you reside in?
  a. Northeast
  b. South
  c. Midwest
  d. West
  e. Other

3). What do you do for a living?
Customer Service Rep for United Continental Holdings Inc.

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0
    b. 2-3
    c. 4-5
    d. 5+

5). How long have you been home brewing?
    a. >1 year
    b. 1-3 years
    c. 4-7 years
    d. 7+ years

6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000
    b. $1,000-$2,000
    c. $2,000 +

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
    a. Daily
    b. Weekly
    c. Bi-Weekly

Why did you begin home brewing?
A friend was interested and was being taught, I was just along for the ride. Hooked right away.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?
Some but I just had a little brewer. He's just 13 weeks old...much is on stand-by right now.

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    a. >1
    b. 1-2
    c. 3-5
    d. 5+

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?
Facebook, AHA Forum, Wikipedia, TFLN

12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?
AHA forum.

Thanks again!

[euge]

1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
   b. 36-45
   c. 46-55
   d. 56+

2) What area do you reside in?
  a. Northeast
  b. South
  c. Midwest
  d. West
  e. Other

3). What do you do for a living?

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0
    b. 2-3
    c. 4-5
    d. 5+

5). How long have you been home brewing?
    a. >1 year
    b. 1-3 years However first brewing/mead making experiences in 1993-94
    c. 4-7 years
    d. 7+ years

6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000
    b. $1,000-$2,000
    c. $2,000 +

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing? What actually brewing?
    a. Daily
    b. Weekly
    c. Bi-Weekly

Cool Why did you begin home brewing? For beer to drink and the challenge.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals? To get better and help out new brewers.

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    a. >1
    b. 1-2
    c. 3-5
    d. 5+

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?


12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?

[6thstreet]

1) A
2) D
3) Certification testing
4) 1
5) D
6) B
7) B
Followed in Father's footsteps
9) Consistency and good beer
10) B
11) AHA, BrewingKB, BN, Sabco, Facebook, MSN
12)Cachebrewsociety, forums, facebook

[barliman]

1) a. 29
2) c. Minnesota
3) Teacher
4) b. 2
5) c. 7ish years
6) >$1000
7) c.
Recieved a Mr. Beer kit for christmas, (only used it twice before upgrading)
9) Brew enough to keep up with demand and not have to buy beer.
10) b. 1-2 hours
11) Northern Brewer, Yahoo(email), AHA forum, craigslist,
12) NB forum and AHA forum

[akr71]

1) What is your age range?
     b. 36-45

2) What area do you reside in?
  e. Other - Canada (Nova Scotia)

3). What do you do for a living?
 GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Specialist

4). How many children do you have?
      b. 2-3
 
5). How long have you been home brewing?
      b. 1-3 years
   
6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000
 
7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
      c. Bi-Weekly  - brew usually monthly, but then there's racking, bottling, cleaning, drinking (err, quality control)

Why did you begin home brewing?
 Its fun.  Better, cheaper beer is just a perk.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?
 Better, cheaper beer, enter a few competitions when I feel my beer is good enough.

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    b. 1-2
   
11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?
AHA Forum, cbssports, nfl.com, my brewclub's forum


12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?
I use facebook and I'm connected with homebrewers, but not as a learning tool.  Forums like this are much better for that.

[hermsman]

1) What is your age range?
   c. 46-55

2) What area do you reside in?
  d. West

3). What do you do for a living?
   Commodity Manager

4). How many children do you have?
    d. 5+

5). How long have you been home brewing?
    d. 7+ years

6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    b. $1,000-$2,000

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
    b. Weekly

 Why did you begin home brewing?
  Christmas present

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?
  Make the most flavorful beers I can.

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    b. 1-2

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?
      Brewing Network
      MoreBeer
      Northern Brewer
      Teh Lifeboat
      Homebrew Chatter
      American Homebrewers Assoc
      Children with Diabetes

12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?

     Facebook

[christo]

1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
   b. 36-45 X
   c. 46-55
   d. 56+

2) What area do you reside in?
  a. Northeast
  b. South X
  c. Midwest
  d. West
  e. Other

3). What do you do for a living? Poop Engineer

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0
    b. 2-3 X
    c. 4-5
    d. 5+

5). How long have you been home brewing?
    a. >1 year
    b. 1-3 years
    c. 4-7 years
    d. 7+ years X
6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000 X
    b. $1,000-$2,000
    c. $2,000 +

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
    a. Daily X (brewing, drinking, or thinking about brewing, drinking)
    b. Weekly
    c. Bi-Weekly

 Why did you begin home brewing?  I was lost in a boat in the middle of the Okeefenokee Swamp with a case of friend's homebrew (half gone by that time) - and I didn't care if we were found.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?  Brewing all 80 BJCP styles (70 and counting. . .)

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    a. >1
    b. 1-2 X
    c. 3-5
    d. 5+

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?  non-work related: ajc.com, savannahnow.com, aha, homebrewchatter, savannahbrewers.com, msn, usta.com, homebrewdigest


12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?  mainly just the websit forums, but also facebook and enjoy the occassional personal brewers blog.

[flapjack]

1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
   

2) What area do you reside in?
  c. Midwest
 

3). What do you do for a living?
     Finance

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0
   
5). How long have you been home brewing?
 b. 1-3 years
   
6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    b. $1,000-$2,000
 
7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
       c. Bi-Weekly

 Why did you begin home brewing?
for the end result

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?
just to improve each batch every time i brew

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
      d. 5+

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?

1.http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/
2.google.com
3.finance.yahoo.com
4.hotmail.com
5.yahoo.com
thats about it.

12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?

AHA Forum

[scruffymmh]

1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
 
2) What area do you reside in?
  a. Northeast
 
3). What do you do for a living?
Patent Attorney

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0

5). How long have you been home brewing?
    b. 1-3 years

6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
[responses aren't inclusive here; tri-weekly or monthly is my answer]

. Why did you begin home brewing?
Because it interested me, and it interested me because: I like beer, cooking, making things that taste good, and a challenge; homebrewing caters to all of these.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?
Lots, but my primary goal is to be able to brew any beer that I can conceive - to accurately translate a mental picture of the beer and its characteristics into a recipe and final product.

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    c. 3-5
   
11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?
cnn.com; Google news; CNET news; AHA forums; break.com (via mobile application)

12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?
-Forums at websites dedicated to brewing, to the extent that these constitute 'social media'.  Regarding social networking such as facebook and twitter, absolutely no connection/learning through these.

[jeffy]

1) What is your age range?
   d. 56+

2) What area do you reside in?
  b. South

3). What do you do for a living?
Independent auto shop owner

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0

5). How long have you been home brewing
    d. 7+ years (closer to 20 years)

6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000 (what about <$1000?)

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
    c. Bi-Weekly (brew about 12 times a year on average, spend time kegging, cleaning, bottling during off weeks)

Why did you begin home brewing?
Brewed a kit a friend gave me from London.  After that I wanted to make beer that wasn't available in my local stores.  We had strange laws in Florida that prevented getting any beer that wasn't in a twelve ounce bottle.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?
Make good, consistent beer, win some awards, esp NHC

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    b. 1-2

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?
This one, my bank, probrewer, tbbeers, flbrewer, NPR

12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?
none of the above.  I read actual books to learn about brewing.

Thanks again!

[dcrawlins]

1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
   b. 36-45
   c. 46-55  X
   d. 56+

2) What area do you reside in?
  a. Northeast  X
  b. South
  c. Midwest
  d. West
  e. Other

3). What do you do for a living?  Chemist

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0  X
    b. 2-3
    c. 4-5
    d. 5+

5). How long have you been home brewing?
    a. >1 year
    b. 1-3 years
    c. 4-7 years
    d. 7+ years X

6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000
    b. $1,000-$2,000 X
    c. $2,000 +

7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
    a. Daily
    b. Weekly
    c. Bi-Weekly X

Cool Why did you begin home brewing? Just wanted to know how and to save money by making rather than buying

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?  No Just like to brew a couple times a month to keep myself and some friends in beer

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    a. >1
    b. 1-2 X
    c. 3-5
    d. 5+

11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day? AHBA forum, Whales Homebrew Club, and many Brewing Supply store websites.


12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?  the Whales homebrew club has a nice forum and so does the american homebrewers Association.  Facebook doesn't offer much but I follow Rebel brewer and Dogfish Head.

[beersk]

1) What is your age range?
   a. 21-35
  
2) What area do you reside in?
 
  c. Midwest
  

3). What do you do for a living?
       Office job.  Sit in a cubicle all day.

4). How many children do you have?
    a. 0
  
5). How long have you been home brewing?
  
    b. 1-3 years
    
6). How much money do you spend on home brewing a year?
    a. >$1000
    
7). How often do you participate in Home Brewing?
    
    c. Bi-Weekly

Why did you begin home brewing?
      It seemed fun and I helped a roommate brew a batch several years before I started and I remembered that being a neat experience.

9) Do you have any home brewing goals?
      Continually improve my beers

10).  How many hours per day do you spend online?
    
    c. 3-5
  
11) What are the top 10 websites that you visit each day?
      AHA forum
      Northern Brewer forum
      CNN.com
      Blabbermouth.net
      Derek Roddy forum
      Beer Advocate forum
      Myspace (for music)
      Metal Archives
      Weather.com
      Youtube
12) What forms of social media (ex: facebook, twitter, blogging) do you use the most to connect with home brewers and learn about home brewing itself?
   Just the message boards and roffenburger's chatroom from Northernbrewer.