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Reading through the brewing fora on the site I've been fascinated by the vocabularly of brewing. For the noobs (and potential noobs like me), it would be great to have a list of terms and their definitions.
Things like: carboy, corny, gravity, hop sparge, spraymalt, etc.
'Cos once I go into Wikipedia I tend to get stuck.

Good idea. The terms can be a bit over-whelming at the start.
Who knew that a Hot Lauter Tun was just a bucket of water? <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->

or liquor did not get you drunk! <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

Yep, this is something that was in the back of my mind when we kicked this off. It would sit comfortably into the KnowledgeBase section. There's nothing worse for a beginner than loads of bloody jargon (I know this from experience)! <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> So yes, lets do it!

Now, what's the best way to feed into it?

One way would be to spread the load to a degree and start a thread where people can either request a definition, or provide a definition. We can then add this to the glossary (I think it's more a glossary we are looking at rather than a lexicon?) and build it up over time. I know a Wiki will be suggested, but as we already have a framework for publishing this as an item I don't want to start complicating the architecture just for this <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Opinions?

&amp;quot;Adeptus&amp;quot;:8b7trfl4 wrote: Now, what's the best way to feed into it?[/quote:8b7trfl4]
As long as you fight bitterly amongst yourselves and it descends into childish name-calling quite quickly, I'll get value out of it.

&amp;quot;Adeptus&amp;quot;:8b7trfl4 wrote: (I think it's more a glossary we are looking at rather than a lexicon?)[/quote:8b7trfl4]
*checks lexicon*
By God, you're right.

Lexicon does sound more cool though <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> Or [i:3avh1l9k]Codex Cerevisiam[/i:3avh1l9k]? <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->