Hi all,

As you may have noticed, the site was missing for a few days. We experienced a couple of technical issues, but we are back and ready to roll! Apologies for the inconvenience.

TBH, I kinda freaked out as I thought the site was down for good. What are the plans for the site going forward? And how can I help?

Very nice Simon! This just came through, email link because of post from @shetc. Yours did not come through...

Good to see things are up and running again.
This site can continue to aid BIAB brewers by its members contributing information and thoughtful responses. That could be you!
Jump in with questions, experiments and results where you can.

thanks to NME for fixing the technical problems behind the recent outage.

Great answer @ShorePoints! This is so true, and exactly how we as an online community stay relevant and helpful to each other and to other brewers.

In memory of Pat, I had similar conversations with him in the past. I am an IT guy so offering my tech help if required and, of course, gratis.

Yeah I jumped the gun with the post, so e-mails wouldn't have been quite up and running.

In the short term we definitely need to just keep the wheels turning and keep the forum active. If anyone has any cool ideas for the future, lets here them

How is the site doing financially?
I am writing this as I stand in the middle of my brewshed. It's been a long road with a few detours, but I am getting closer to being able to brew again.
I definitely want Pistols dream to carry on and will help out when I can. I miss my late night chats with PP over some new brew dream he had envisioned to push the hobby forward.

I am also homer on the mod team incase anyone is wondering. I haven't been around much lately but plan on changing that.

LumpySoh -It is good to hear from you.
As for the financial state of things, my guess is that Simon knows more than anyone.
If you get your brewshed up and running again, that will be something . If you have gone through an ordeal, this could be the helpful path forward. Scott & I have been posting mostly all responses to first posts for some time now. If you can do a reply once in awhile, that’d be great.
I have some wonderful emails from Pat where we always had an interesting connection beyond the written words, but I never did get to speak to him like you, Shetc and BobBrews. We all miss him. Our most recent PMs had to do with Kveik yeasts becoming “craft yeast” like “craft beer” and where that might take home brewing. And puns - it seems that Pat and I shared an interest in real groaners.

At the moment I've spent a total of $4 on it This is still sitting on Pat's old account until it expires. I'm taking snapshots of it every couple of days, then I'll move it over to my account where it'll cost me $10/month in the short term. I'll investigate cheaper options, but it's not going to break the bank