About r/Homebrewing
Community guide
r/Homebrewing (#897, about 1.2 million) is the home beer/fermenting craft community—process talk over meme macros—despite an empty catalogue description in our snapshot.
What belongs
Homebrewing discussion (about 11 posts/day). Collected 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.
SubMouse Editorial
Among the 6 communities on our beer and brewing list it is the largest. It sits just behind r/OneOrangeBraincell (#896) and ahead of r/IndoorGarden (#921) 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 34%). 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
Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Homebrewing went up from 1,187,919 to 1,188,132 subscribers (+213, +0.02%). That is about 53 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (2 so far), so it gets longer every week.
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.
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.
Rules of r/Homebrewing
The moderators of r/Homebrewing list 7 rules. In short:
- Don't be a dick.
- Image Macros are not allowed.
- Image only posts are not allowed.
- Your joke is bad, and you should feel bad.
- They see me sellin' ... they hatin'.
- DUDE CHECK OUT MY BLOG
- 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 2, 2026), which makes it the #897 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 213 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 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.
Which communities are like r/Homebrewing?
Communities with similar topics include r/Fitness (12.6M), r/bodybuilding (3M), r/Coffee (2.5M), r/financialindependence (2.5M) and r/DIY (27.5M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). 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.