It’s one of the highlights of my beer year. This year’s Beer Bloggers Conference will be my 3rd in a row and takes us to Boston, MA, home of a great beer culture. The conference has become a family reunion of sorts with friends and beer bloggers from around the country gathering together to geek…
Talk about going from 0 to 60 in record time. Indianapolis’ Sun King Brewing Co. crashed the beer world’s party with an incredible eight medals at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival in only its second year of production. After taking a tour of Sun King and tasting several of its brews following the 2012…
Walking into the Monarch Beverage Company warehouse outside Indianapolis, IN, for a tour during the 2012 Beer Bloggers Conference, I thought 1.3 million cases was a lot of beer. That’s until Bob Mack of World Class Beverages, a division of Monarch, told us it was only a three week supply for one of the Country’s…
Back at the beginning of June, Stan Hieronymus and Alan McLeod, two of the beer world’s most followed and respected beer writers/bloggers, brought up the subject of the (then) forthcoming 2012 Beer Bloggers Conference in Indianapolis, IN. Alan asked who planned to go and, in a round about way, why one might be drawn to…
Yesterday I was told I’m biased because I received a free gift as part of a presentation on beer glassware at the 2012 Beer Bloggers Conference in Indianapolis, IN. I wasn’t asked if the sponsor’s generosity played a role in my opinions. I was simply told that the gift had such an effect. Mind you,…
Always one of the best session at the Beer Bloggers Conference, the Live Beer Blogging session lived up to the hype yesterday afternoon on the first day of the 2012 conference in Indianapolis, IN. Here’s how it works. Conference attendees sit around ten circular tables with laptops, ipads, cellphones, and cameras at the ready. Ten…
No shocker here, but 18 hours is not enough time to check out Chicago’s beer scene. Nevertheless, we made a valiant effort to enjoy as much as we could during the pre-conference Chicago excursion before the official start to the 2012 Beer Bloggers Conference. Friends old and new gathered at Clark Street Ale House for…
Indianapolis in July. How many of you marked that destination for your summer vacation? Unless you’re familiar with Indianapolis (and I’m not), it may not seem like a sexy destination for beer. Okay, who am I kidding. It still isn’t a sexy destination for beer like, say, San Diego or Portland. But the more I…