New Home Brew Store

Greetings all,

This is a message to let you know about our new homebrewing web site :

We have home brewing supplies, recipes, and information. It is a site dedicated to the homebrewer, and everything that the homebrewer needs. Be sure and check it out. If you have any suggestions, they are appreciated, the more input the better.

Some of the features:

• Home Brewing supplies
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• Home brew recipes
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  - Order supplies based upon the recipe

• Keep your own home brewing recipe book
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  - Keep recipes privately, or publicly - Keep private notes on recipes

• First time home brewer's instructions
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  beer home brew.php

• Beer calculator --
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  calculator home brew.php - Calculate Alcohol content - Convert Balling and specific gravity - Adjust specific gravity for temperature

Hope to see you there,

GandalftheStout

Greetings all,

This is a message to let you know about our new homebrewing web site :

We have home brewing supplies, recipes, and information. It is a site dedicated to the homebrewer, and everything that the homebrewer needs. Be sure and check it out. If you have any suggestions, they are appreciated, the more input the better.

Some of the features:

• Home Brewing supplies
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• Home brew recipes
  formatting link
  - Order supplies based upon the recipe

• Keep your own home brewing recipe book
  formatting link
  - Keep recipes privately, or publicly - Keep private notes on recipes

• First time home brewer's instructions
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  beer home brew.php

• Beer calculator
  formatting link
  calculator home brew.php - Calculate Alcohol content - Convert Balling and specific gravity - Adjust specific gravity for temperature

Hope to see you there,

GandalftheStout

Okey dokey.

Firstly, lose the animated background. Makes me wanna kill somebody.

Secondly, your prices are okay (about average), but your selection is miniscule. Do you plan to add more items later (equipment or books, esp.)? Why the two-pound bags of grain? Do you sell larger or smaller quantities (outside the recipe kits, that is)? Are you able to crush grain? Some shipping costs/types/info would also be nice.

Who's your target audience? Novice brewers? Some brewing info (obviously) be helpful, or at least links to sites that provide it.

And one last piece of advice--if you plan to spam newsgroups to advertise your store, it's polite to at least hang around for a while and chat beforehand. Folks are more likely to actually visit your site if you're not just some anonymous stranger trying to sell them something.

Brina

Thanks for the 2 cents. I appreciate it. I've been out of town for a few days,so I haven't checked the groups, but let me address your points:

Animated background- I can relate to this point. I would agree in gener al that an animated background is a bad idea, but I just couldn't live wi th flat beer! Most of the people I've talked to, who've seen it, seemed to like the bubbles. Perhaps a reduction in the bubble density would be good.

Price/selection - You are right about the selection, and that is the n umber one poriority as the store grows. Unufortunately, we are just small ti me at this point. Once we have grown a little, the selection will imp rove. Ultimately we'd like to have the best selection and the best pric es. I doubt we will ever carry books, but we have put links to some good home brewing books at Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.

Target audience: Anyone who loves home brewing. At this point, we have instructions for the novice, making that first brew, and a beer calculator. Plus there is a forum, for discussions on brewing topics. I'd like to add intermediate and advanced brewing tips as well.

Always glad to chat with anyone in the home brewing groups. Mostly, I tend to read posts (never learned anything by opening my mouth), but if anyone addresses me particularly, I'm glad to chat.

Thanks ! GTS ______________________

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