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r/Homebrewing

r/Homebrewing is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #898 on SubMouse with 1,188,132 subscribers and about 11 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#898
Subscribers1.2M
Growth since Nov 2+0
Posts per day11
Posts all time247.8K
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About r/Homebrewing

Community guide

r/Homebrewing (#897, about 1.2 million) is the home beer/fermenting craft community—process talk over meme macros.

What belongs

Homebrewing discussion (about 11 posts/day). The rules: civility; no image macros; no image-only posts; joke-quality limits; anti-selling/spam tone in the short titles.

Versus beer and Cooking

Commercial beer tasting rooms and general cooking differ from all-grain/extract process help. Post recipes and process questions here with text context—image-only posts are disallowed.

Practical pointers

Write process details in the post body; skip macros and sales pitches.

Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 0 subscribers (+0.00%). Among the 6 communities on our beer and brewing list it is the largest. It sits just behind r/PiratedGames (#897) and ahead of r/WhyWereTheyFilming (#899) in our ranking.

What sets r/Homebrewing apart

Compared with other large communities, r/Homebrewing leans heavily on text posts (92% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%). Growth has more or less levelled off (0.02% since Oct 29, 2026), which is common for very mature communities. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (07:00 UTC) sees about 6.0× as many posts as the quietest (00:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

1.19M1.19MOct 29Nov 9, 2026

Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/Homebrewing went up from 1,187,919 to 1,188,132 subscribers (+213, +0.02%). That is about 19 new members per day. The chart shows 3 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/Homebrewing this week

This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. exBEERiment | Grain Comparison: Barke vs. Standard Vienna Malt In A Vienna Lageru/brulosopher · Nov 2 · link
  2. Is there a way to tell if my Star-San is still good after 3 years?u/Kyanite146699 · Nov 5 · text post
  3. Looking to downsize the breweryu/HAOrtiz · Nov 3 · text post
  4. Put Gelatin in my Hazy.u/EatyourPineapples · Nov 6 · text post
  5. What pilsner malt to use for a Lager to get more cracker/biscuit character found in German beers.u/InfluenceEffective48 · Nov 2 · text post
  6. Where to sell high-quality brewing set up these days?u/Impossible-Ice-3912 · Nov 5 · text post
  7. NYC brew club annual event Sunday Nov 8 in Redhook Brooklynu/bodobeers2 · Nov 7 · text post
  8. Smaller Brew Systemsu/dp1014 · Nov 4 · text post
  9. Show me what you're working withu/dermal_denticles · Nov 2 · text post
  10. Kegerator adviceu/klenow · Nov 6 · text post

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Homebrewing, from 2012 to 2023, ranked by Reddit.

  1. No longer a homebrewer, my dream realizedu/nikoelnutto · Mar 14, 2015 · 3,571 points · 277 comments · link
  2. My dad was tasked with building a keggerator for my sisters barn-theme wedding. he went a bit overboard.Jul 6, 2015 · 3,095 points · 116 comments · link
  3. PSA: Don’t use homebrewing to hide alcohol use disorderu/profscumbag · Aug 11, 2020 · text post
  4. Legislation Would Allow U.S. Postal Service to Ship Alcoholic Beveragesu/chino_brews · Oct 24, 2017 · 2,544 points · 163 comments · link
  5. Finally etched my kettle and it looks grea.... Crap!u/b0hica · Jun 7, 2015 · 2,273 points · 147 comments · image
  6. How to add permanent volume markings to a kettle.u/itsgus · Mar 3, 2014 · 2,300 points · 212 comments · link
  7. Congress Woman Jackie Speier has introduced a bill to allow shipping beer/ wine through the USPSu/thedoorkeep · Jul 15, 2015 · 2,103 points · 167 comments · link
  8. Exploding sparkling meadu/KoopaTroop420 · Mar 10, 2014 · 1,870 points · 164 comments · link
  9. Finally got my mead bottled up last night, I think the label is pretty good.u/booliganairsoft · Nov 5, 2013 · 1,699 points · 70 comments · image
  10. TIL That in 1978 Jimmy Carter signed the Home Brew act (H.R.1337) into law, making it legal for small businesses and individuals to brew beer - kicking off the craft brew revolution in the United Sta…u/raptorswamp · Feb 19, 2023 · 1,862 points · 70 comments · link

What r/Homebrewing talks about

We read the titles of 78 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “daily”, “recipe”, “brew”, “beer” and “november”. Other frequent themes are cider, help, yeast, malt, water and october. Recurring phrases include “wheat beer”. By format, 92% are text posts and 8% are links.

  • daily 7
  • recipe 5
  • brew 5
  • beer 5
  • november 4
  • cider 4
  • help 3
  • yeast 3
  • malt 3
  • water 3
  • october 3
  • advice 2
  • looking 2
  • home 2
  • fermentation 2
  • coopers 2
  • gas 2
  • wheat 2

Popular post flairs: Question (29), Beer/Recipe (6), Equipment (6), Weekly Thread (4).

Activity and best time to post

r/Homebrewing gets about 11 new posts a day. The public archive holds 247,769 posts and 3,548,941 comments in total, about 14.3 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (15 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (9). Posting peaks around 07:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.

00: 10001: 202: 403: 30304: 205: 306: 30607: 608: 409: 20910: 311: 112: 21213: 414: 215: 51516: 517: 418: 51819: 220: 521: 42122: 423: 2
Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Text posts 92%Links 8%

Rules of r/Homebrewing

The moderators of r/Homebrewing list 7 rules. In short:

  1. Don't be a dick.
  2. Image Macros are not allowed.
  3. Image only posts are not allowed.
  4. Your joke is bad, and you should feel bad.
  5. They see me sellin' ... they hatin'.
  6. DUDE CHECK OUT MY BLOG
  7. No polls

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Homebrewing and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many members does r/Homebrewing have?

r/Homebrewing has 1,188,132 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #898 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 213 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How active is r/Homebrewing?

Moderately: r/Homebrewing gets about 11 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 247,769 posts and 3,548,941 comments. In a sample of 78 recent posts we counted 62 different authors.

When is r/Homebrewing most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 07:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/Homebrewing about?

r/Homebrewing is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention daily, recipe, brew, beer and november. Most posts are text posts (92%).

Is r/Homebrewing safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Homebrewing as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/Homebrewing?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Homebrewing accepts both text and link posts. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Don't be a dick.”; “Image Macros are not allowed.”; “Image only posts are not allowed.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Homebrewing.

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