brewing.ie wants your brains...

[rymus]

This is pretty much a direct copy of the post I put up on Beoir yesterday so forgive me if you've already read it.

I've taken residence at http://www.brewing.ie and I'm searching for contributors. That is, I'm looking for people who will write, draw pictures, take photos, shoot video or otherwise contribute content to the site in whatever form they wish.

The only two requirements?
1. Beer or brewing related
2. Linked to Ireland in some form. (it is brewing.ie after all)

Other than that, I'm open to whatever you want to do, in whatever form you want to do it. If you're thinking of getting into brewing and want to document your process. If you've been brewing kits/extract/all grain for years and want to write some how-to's. If you want to show off your latest bit of kit or talk about your brew day. Or if you just love drinking craft beer and want to do beer reviews.

The (admittedly empty at the moment) site just got put online yesterday but I'm hoping to get some contributors on board to get the site rolling quickly.

As for what you get out of it? What do you want out of it? I suppose if you're already a beer blogger and decide to syndicate some or all of your blog content over to brewing.ie, you get the (hopefully) very prominent brewing.ie name to have your articles found at. The intention is to push the name mercilessly on an ongoing basis so it should (again hopefully) stay fresh in peoples minds.

Brewing.ie is very much an experiment at group blogging for the Irish craft beer market. It's an experiment that is currently completely funded by me and my woefully thin wallet. To that end I should point out that I'm in no way interested in making money with this so that's not where this is going.  Coming close to breaking even would be an extra special treat. My interest here is to give Irish craft beer producers (be they home brewers or pro brewers) a bit more of a voice.

I could waffle on endlessly but it's better to throw it open to questions and comments. If you're interested, give me a shout. Some details are up on the website. Email address is hello@brewing.ie

That's the 'what the hell am I doing here?' part. As for 'who the hell am I?'; I'm a home brewer, although quite a novice one, a blogger (glasseyalley.com and previously blog.rymus.net) and one half of a pub review website (munsterpubs.com). I was also a steward at the recent homebrew comp in the bull & castle.

As I've said above, the site isn't really all there yet and I'm hoping for ideas, questions or comments to help me steer it in the right direction. At the moment the site is a little bit like a karaoke night, nobody wants to sing the first song. That's perfectly understandable so over the coming days I'll be writing a few bits and pieces myself. Apologies in advance for my as yet elementary knowledge of brewing

Any feedback is appreciated, as you can imagine this is a bit of a daunting task setting up from scratch. That's kinda why I'm so interested on getting people from both here and Beoir involved. There's an amazing pool of knowledge out there on so many different aspects of brewing, craft beer and everything that goes with both. So, any questions,  comments or ideas?