This months Session is hosted by Jeff & Tom at Lug Wrench Brewing and the topic they have chosen is "Craft Beers Inspired By Homebrewing. How has homebrewing had an affect on the commercial beer we have all come to love? Feel free to take the topic in any direction your imagination leads you".

This is a toughy, not because homebrewing has so few effects on commercial brewing but because homebrewings presence effects, not only brewing, but much of everyday life although most people wouldn't admit it. That being said, I will take our hosts at their word and "take the topic in any direction your imagination leads you".
Homebrewing was (historically speaking) the only beer available to most of the population of Europe and the Middle East and since the water would probably kill you it was THE beverage for everyone. Beer and brewing were so important and such a part of daly life that they changed and directed the way people thought.
The best demonstration of this is in their affect on language. So many words that are commonplace today and are not used to describe beer or brewing anymore have their origins in those most revered areas of life.
Take the word 'stale' for example. It is used to describe many things and concepts which have nothing to do with beer but it's origin refers to 'freed from dregs or lees' or having stood long enough for solids to settle out. Stale was a GOOD thing.
And how about syrup? Being Canadian, maple syrup is just about a staple every spring. The word comes from Arabic and originally meant 'something drunk' or more specifically 'beverage, beer or wine'.
The word 'broth' comes from 'bruthan' which means (or meant) 'to heat, boil, bubble or a liquid in which something has been boiled' and which came itself from the word 'breowan' which meant to 'brew', and since tea wouldn't be known to the Europeans for centuries yet it had to refer to making beer.
Of course there is 'bride' which comes to us from ancient Germanic and probably referred to 'Daughter in Law' whose duty was to cook for the husbands family (with whom the happy couple lived). Cooking included, naturally enough, making the families beer. 'Bridal' probably came much later from Britain and literally meant 'Brides Ale' with which the prospective wife would show off her skills at the essential task of making good beer to sustain her family.
If her beer was good enough the word 'bib' would naturally follow and this comes to us from the word 'bibben' meaning 'to drink' or maybe 'bibere' 'to imbibe'. Gotta wonder about those sloppy beer drinkers.
It might be fun, sometime, to take a commercial beer ad and tear it apart to find out how many times an attractive young lady in tiny shorts and tinier tank-top refers to homebrewing even if it is inadvertent.
The next time I am kicking back listening to a Beatles album and my grandson says "That's so stale Grandpa" I'm going to say "Don't mind if I do, pour me another one will you?" That ought to confuse the young wipper-snapper.