JASON KELK: HOMEBREW HERO

Last issue, just as we were going to press, we received the news that our resident homebrew expert Jason Kelk had passed away due to COVID-19. Jason began contributing to the Homebrew section in early 2008 and he continued to contribute every month until he was admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in late March 2020.

Darren Nevell has known Jason since school and recalls a particular time when he had his first experience of Jason’s passion for coding. “I was in a local computer shop called The Computer Centre and in walked Jason and a couple of his mates and he said, ‘Hey Darren, great timing as I’m about to show my mates what I’ve been working on.’ He loaded