By day, I’m a Web developer, and to keep my sanity at night, I homebrew. It has been around three years since I made my first batch. What I love most about homebrewing is sharing what I’ve created; watching as a friend or family member takes their first cautious sip of my homebrew and putting the glass down with a smile. I wanted a way to share that experience with other homebrewers, so I combined my skills to create BrewShuffle.com.
   
For months I scoured the Web to plan my site. I thought that the idea of the communal sharing of homebrew had to already exist. To my surprise, nothing really fully encapsulated what I was looking for. I wanted a place where homebrewers and beer geeks could come together and share our homebrew; a place where I could try that homebrew recipe I was always cautious about brewing myself.             Perhaps, invite some local homebrewers over to have a great brew day with a collective mishmash of different types of equipment and ingredients I wouldn’t be able to amass on my own.
   
Many months later, after lots of long nights and weekends     the website BrewShuffle.com was “launched.” I knew it still needed some polish, but it was time to get some real feedback. Initially the hits were slow, but soon they started to pick up. A few months after its launch BrewShuffle.com is doing pretty well for a site as young as it is. Hopefully it has a very bright future and finds its place in the homebrewing community. I think it is a great place to get feedback on your beers without submitting to competitions, try a homebrew that you haven’t brewed yet and learn about how ingredients affect flavors. So go forth and share your homebrew! visit us at http://brewshuffle.com. And to share a little bit of my homebrewing with you, check out my Imperial IPA:

Matt Gauzza’s
Imperial IPA
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)
OG = 1.084  FG = 1.020
IBU = 91  SRM = 9  ABV = 8.5%

Ingredients
11 lbs. (5 kg) North American 2-row pale malt
4 lbs. (1.8 kg) Munich malt (7 °L)
2 lbs. (0.9 kg) Carapils®/dextrine malt (2 °L)
1 lb. (0.45 kg) Vienna malt (3 °L)
15 AAU Warrior hops (1 oz./28 g
  at 15% alpha acids) (first wort)
6.5 AAU Simcoe hops
  (0.5 oz./14 g at 13% alpha acids) (60 min.)
8.5 AAU Amarillo Gold hops
  (1 oz./28 g at 8.5% alpha acids) (15 min.)
6.5 AAU Simcoe hops
  (0.5 oz./14 g at 13% alpha acids) (15 min.)
8.5 AAU Amarillo Gold hops
  (1 oz./28 g at 8.5% alpha acids) (1 min.)
13 AAU Simcoe hops
  (1 oz./28 g at 13% alpha acids) (1 min.)
1 oz. (28 g) Simcoe hops 13% alpha acids (dry hop)
1 Tb. Irish Moss (15 min.)
1 package each Safale S-04 and Safale US-05 yeast

Step by Step
Mash in for 60 minutes with 5.5 gallons (21 L) of water at 164 °F (73 °C). At mash out add 3 gallons of water at 200 °F (93 °C) for 10 minutes. Fly sparge 0.5 gallons (1.9 L) of 168 °F (75 °C). Add the hops and Irish moss according to the ingredients list. Rapidly chill the wort to yeast pitching temperatures and pitch the yeast. When the primary fermentation is complete, dry hop for 7 days.