Often referred to as Beervana or “Americas Beer Capital”, Portland, Oregon is an amazing place to be if you like good beer. Craft beer culture is everywhere around this great city and I love living here. If you’ve never been, I’d highly suggest adding it to your list of upcoming vacation spots. After taking over this blog, it has been on my todo list to add a beer guide for Portland. The site already had a great…
The new site design for Blog About Beer is now live (in case you haven’t noticed). It was designed to give a nice and clean look to the site as well as speed up page load time. You might also notice that I added a new Blog About Beer logo to further brand the blog. Along with the new look I added 3 ways that you can connect and stay informed with what’s going on…
Hey everyone, I just want to wish you a happy and safe 4th of July. Hopefully you are taking some time out to hang with family and friends as well as get a chance to drink a nice beer or two. As for me, it’s my wifes birthday as well so there is two reasons to party. Happy birthday Renee and America! Since it’s summer and BBQ time, here is my beer lineup for the…
Hi everyone, my name is Logan Thompson and I am the new owner of Blog About Beer. I wanted to take a minute and introduce myself as well as let you know my vision for this site. As most of you probably know, Luke started up his own brewery (I’m a bit jealous about that still), and didn’t have time to maintain this site. That’s were I stepped in, took a look at the great…
Well, I have officially sold BlogAboutBeer.com and after two years and 10 months of launching and running the site, it’s time for me to step down and let someone else take the reins and guide Blog About Beer into the future and beyond. I’ll let the new owner introduce himself so as not to steal his thunder or misrepresent his intentions with the site. Rather, I wanted to take a minute and say goodbye and,…
A bill which had been stuck in the Iowa state legislature for quite some time finally passed late last week and was signed into law by Iowa governor Chet Culver. The bill finally allows for beer with an ABV (Alcohol By Volume) percentage of up to 15% to be both brewed and sold in the state of Iowa. According to the Mason City, IA Globe Gazette, The legislation allows Iowa breweries to apply for newly…
Nominations have begun again for the annual Portland Phoenix Best of Portland awards. As always, I’m making a minor organic push for votes. If you’ve got a second — even if you’re not a local reader — please take a moment and click here (or on the 125 x 125 Phoenix banner you see on the right-hand sidebar) and enter “Blog About Beer.com” as your favorite local blog. Don’t worry, you don’t need to fill…
Just a quick note that a quote from yours truly was featured in a story on CNBC.com yesterday about the addition of beer to the menus of Burger King restaurants in Southern Florida and a Starbucks on 15th Avenue in Seattle. Burger King says its decision to serve beer came from customer feedback. They’re specifically targeting touristy areas like Orlando and South Beach and serving up fanny-pack favorites, including Bud, Bud Light, Bud Light Lime…
First I want to apologize – the last few days have been MUCH busier than I expected and I have yet to have enough free time to compile all of the entries into the 2010 Mother of All Beer Blogging Contests and draw the winners (which was supposed to happen Thursday evening). I do however expect I’ll have enough time later this evening to do just that. So my tardiness is your (possible) gain. If…
Wanted to wish everyone a happy, safe, fun and beer-filled New Year’s eve this evening (and New Year’s Day recovery tomorrow). I hope you are able to spend this holiday with friends, family and those you love. It may be a good day to think about pulling that special bottle you’ve been waiting on out of the cellar; it’s time. I also wanted to thank the many thousands of people that stopped by BlogAboutBeer.com in…