So, someone at work told me about Second Life a while back. I tried it out, and there’s certainly some interesting things there. I’ve now even had a couple virtual meetings there with colleagues. If it’s a good place to meet for work … why not chat about brewing too?

One of the main things we want to stress with BrewSession (apart from just helping you brew better beer) is a sense of community. And in that spirit, I’m happy to announce that BrewSession now has a presence in Second Life under the group name:

“Beer & Wine Makers Association”

And I do believe the Beer & Wine Makers Association is the only group of home brewers and wine makers in the land of Linden. So, until we get things running here, come join the Beer & Wine Makers Association in Second Life. We can talk home brew, drink a couple beers, maybe even build our own pub! For now, you can sometimes find me in The Blarney Stone.

Yours truely,

ummm…. Huppert Beerbaum

P.S. Join the group in Second Life and mention to me that you read about it here and I’ll refund your 1 Linden membership fee.

Well, first of all, I’ve just put up the new look for the blog. I’m still refining things here and there (not sure about the little pint glasses next to the titles, hmm…), but it has taken on the basic look that will be soon appearing on the BrewSession.com home page.

Right now the home page is redirecting you to this blog, since it has all the good gossip. Once we release some calculators, it’ll go live again.

Which brings me to, the calculators. We switched gears a little bit (or Dean did anyway) and started using the Google Web Toolkit to some extent. It allows for easy web 2.0 plugins and will eventually should allow the online application to work just as well offline. (looking forward to that one!) Anyway, we’ve almost completed the first calculator using the GWT. Once one is done the others should be pretty easy, since a lot of the code can be reused for the other calcs….it’s all that initial ground work that takes so much time and effort.

Anyway, more soon!