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>>sebg+(OP)
Tim Wendelboe (perhaps the greatest coffee roaster) has been talking about this on his latest Q&A podcast. A rigmarole for exports plus climate change are causing issues.

He does a two-episode deep dive into the Kenyan coffee market here, which is worth a listen: https://timwendelboe.no/2024/03/inside-kenyas-coffee-market-...

>>philip+b8
I know nothing about coffee roasting but the level of wankery on that site is an absolute delight. Makes me wonder if this is deliberate

https://timwendelboe.no/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/T_Wendelb...

https://www.gottahaverockandroll.com/ItemImages/000025/jul18...

>>pvg+Pb
Of all the speciality foods, wine is the most pretentious. Coffee isn't far behind.

>>goosej+uw
Beer is close. The essay written on the side of a floodland bottle is really a sight to behold in the wankery domain.

>>rozap+jN
An argument can be made for beer being above, perhaps even the peak. Unlike coffee or wine, beerwankers took something that didn't really have a high-end and then made it up. They created their own wanktopic! And for this achievement, they get comparatively little of their due social opprobrium - 'homebrew' has come to connote scrappy and hip even though it's transparent wankery of the highest order.

>>pvg+FS
"homebrew" just means you made it yourself. nothing to do with snobbery.

>>jujube+MY
I'm not a linguist but I think this bit of jargon leaked into tech from ham radio, which is old enough that "homebrew" (in the sense of building your own radio set from components) referred to a still-earlier time when people actually did commonly brew their own beer at home. "homespun" retains a similar meaning in general usage.

>>Eleven+Z31
Is beer part of "tech" now?

homebrew has a pretty straightforward meaning... beer you brewed at home. It's actually legally defined that way too

>>jujube+471
Maybe I've misunderstood pvg upthread but I assumed "'homebrew' has come to connote scrappy and hip" was about IT/tech because it doesn't have that connotation in the actual context of beer, at least to my knowledge.

>>Eleven+Ga1
No, you had it right - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club which, as you say, is probably a borrowing from older tech nerd communities.

>>pvg+of1
The "homebrew computer club" made their own computers. It wasn't about being scrappy or hip, but just a cooler way of saying "homemade"

>>jujube+LP3
You should probably check out the denotation of 'connotation'

>>pvg+oH6
You should probably check out "being a pedantic douche" -- oh wait, you already did.