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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+(OP)
"homebrew" just means you made it yourself. nothing to do with snobbery.

>>jujube+76
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+kb
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+pe
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+1i
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+Jm
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+6X2
You should probably check out the denotation of 'connotation'

>>jujube+6X2
So it's about being cool but not about being hip? What distinction are you trying to make?

>>pvg+JO5
You should probably check out "being a pedantic douche" -- oh wait, you already did.