The word "homebrew" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is made in a non-professional setting, especially alcohol or software. For example, "I love to make my own beer through homebrewing on the weekends."
However, little did I know that a homebrew renaissance has been building, started by beer aficionados rather than bored middle-aged hobbyists.
I recently decided to extend this approach to beer – from now on it would be homebrew or nothing.
A word of advice: don't make your homebrew before you plan to go out.
Hillary Clinton emailed her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while secretary of state, seemingly contradicting her explanation that she exclusively used a personal email address on a so-called "homebrew" server so that she could carry a single device, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.
There are thousands of homebrew scientists out there now, tinkering endlessly with hops and aromatics and various obscure yeast strains in a bid to perfect the craft, and they're producing some of the best beers in the country as a result.
Most importantly, perhaps 60% of African drinkers slake their thirst with homebrew rather than branded booze, so there is plenty of room to upgrade.
SABMiller, which operates in 37 African countries, is trying to woo homebrew-lovers with sorghum and cassava beers that are consistently good.
Mr Wolf draws an analogy with the Homebrew Computer Club, which met in Silicon Valley in the 1970s and went from a hobbyists' group to the basis of a new industry.
Back in 2008, two gigabytes of memory the maximum allowed by the motherboard selected at the time for Homebrew seemed more than enough for a modest little server.
Wozniak was an early and regular participant at Homebrew Computer Club meetings (see the earlier section, The Altair), which Jobs also occasionally attended.
Wozniak also became involved with the Homebrew Computer Club, a San Francisco Bay area group centred around the Altair 8800 microcomputer do-it-yourself kit, which was based on one of the world's first microprocessors, the Intel Corporation 8080, released in 1975.
