Hey fellow beer lovers!

I am writing this message to make you aware of a new Internet project called
"Wikibraeu"; it can be found at http://wikibraeu.sciam.de.

Anyone who has recently browsed the web is likely to have come across
"Wikipedia", an online encyclopedia that can be edited and extended by any
Internet user. This "decentralized editorship" has as a consequence an
up-to-dateness reached by no printed lexicon.

On the other side, which collector or beer lover hasn't had the following
problem yet? -- You are looking for some bit of information about some
particular brewery (address, website or pictures of labels etc.), but all
the information is spread over several websites, which are in the worst
case not even up-to-date. The idea behind Wikibraeu is to solve this
problem with Wikipedia's philosophy:

Wikibraeu is a brewery lexicon that can be edited and extended by any
Internet user. The goal is to have about every brewery in the world an
article containing up-to-date information like the address, the website,
pictures of collectors' material, etc. Both collectors (looking for
addresses of breweries and pictures of their labels, coasters, etc.) and
beer lovers will benefit from such a project.

Wikibraeu went online just these days, so the lexicon is still near to
empty. If you want to help Wikibraeu "learn to walk", I kindly ask you to
do one or more of the following:

* Start one ore more articles. (They needn't be long, essential information
like the brewery's address suffices.)
* If you maintain a website, please set up a link from there to "Wikibraeu -
The brewery lexicon by you for you"; the URL is http://wikibraeu.sciam.de
* Forward this email to people who might be interested.

Should you find some time, please help with this interesting project! This
is the only way it will be able to live and grow!

Thanks and all the best
Robert West