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by matsemann 9 days ago
Huh, I've never even considered that those words had anything to do with beer. I've just accepted them at face value, same as any other tech jargon.
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The whole concept comes from homebrewing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing

Yeah, I guess it's not being a native English speaker, so one just accept most of the words almost as names without thinking about any other meaning the word might have.
For me it was just a command lol

It's now that I am reflecting back that it's all related to home brewing!