startitup, is this "brewery gym" an outreach program or somehow related to SUNY Binghamton? Or is it a joke perpetrated by a few SUNY Binghamton students with too much time on their hands?

Either way, it's a local facility and our forum members are located all over the world....

A quick check with Google tells me that I can buy a D-I-Y beer kit online for $100 bucks. So the "expensive/advanced" concept of beer brewing at home sounds a bit trumped up...

On the other hand, I can see where a person might want to take a class in beer brewing theory prior to making a batch... IMHO, community colleges are always a good bet for people with interests in things like brewing beer.
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