What is The Bay Area Beer Bloggers?
Recently several beer bloggers from the Bay Area had an impromptu meet-up at the 2008 Boonville Beer Festival. Though all of us were very different and approached our blogs from a different perspective, we all shared a love of good beer and the geography of the greater Bay Area. When I looked at how many of us were covering the same turf on the same subject with very little overlap or conflict, I was struck by how we might work together on specific projects, events or who knows what. So the first step is to come together. With that in mind, I created “Bay Area Beer Bloggers” as a very loose collection of like-minded individuals in the hope that we could develop a group that will work together on some still-unspecified projects. For now, all I see is untapped potential. Let’s see what we can do with it.
How to Join The Bay Area Beer Bloggers
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and write a blog, website or podcast about beer, you’re already a member of our community. If you don’t see your blog listed below, please shoot me a note or post a comment at the bottom of this page, and I’ll add you right away.
Members of the BABB Community
- Chuck Lenatti at allbrews
- Brian at All Over Beer
- Jesse Sand at Bar Stories (currently on hiatus)
- Darren at Bay Area Homebrewing & Beer & Appreciation
- Dave McAvoy at Beer-a-Day 365
- Cortlandt at Beer Adventures Blog
- Jesse Friedman at Beer & Nosh
- Angelo Roselle at BeerArchivist’s Blog
- Steve Shapiro & Gail Ann Williams at Beer by BART
- Bruce Paton, who is the Beer Chef
- David Jensen at Beer 47
- Chris Nelson & Merideth Canham-Nelson, who collectively are The Beer Geek
- Chris Galvin at Beernerd
- Jon Weber at Beer Obsessed
- Brian Yaeger at Beer Odyssey
- Jay Hinman at Beer Samizdat
- Craig Davis at Beers, Beers, Beers
- John Foster & Motor at Beer School
- Matt Knopf at the Beer Warrior
- Jen Muehlbauer at the Berkeley Craft Beer Examiner
- Peter Estaniel at Better Beer Blog
- Jay Brooks at Bottoms Up: On Beer
- Mario Rubio at Brewed For Thought
- Maggie Winslow at the Brewess
- Justin Crossley at the Brewing Network
- Jon Campbell at the Broken Spirits
- Gabriel and Karl at Broken Table Brewing
- Jay Brooks at the Brookston Beer Bulletin
- Bill Manley at The Designated Drinker
- Chris Hubbard at the Dr Hubbard’s Beardy Beer Blog
- Ashley Routson a.k.a. The Beer Wench at Drink With The Wench
- Jesse Molina at Episuds
- Colin James at Food, Beer, & Other Vices
- Troy McClure SF at Golden Gate Beer Blog
- Sean Z. Paxton who is the Homebrew Chef
- Juan at Juan’s Home Brewery
- DK at … learning about beer
- Mike Steinberg at Lov Beer
- Mark Harvey at NorCal Beer Blog
- John Heylin at Nor Cal Beer Guide
- Tom Gilhuley at One Brew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Simon Ford at Overcarbed
- Jen Rizzo at Pedals and Pints
- Rob DeNunzio at Pfiff!
- Rail Arson at Plastic Love Monkey
- Derrick Peterman at Ramblings of a Beer Runner
- Daniel Steckenberg at SF Beer Calendar
- Brad Barmore and Ben Parry at Sports Meats Beer / Facebook
- Jason Quinn at That Beer Nerd
- Jessica “JJ” Jones at The Thirsty Hopster (on hiatus)
- Brian Wimsett at True Brew Too
- Fred Abercrombie at Ünnecessary Ümlaut
- Joey & Jen McDaniel at Wet Your Whistles
- Miles Wilhelm at Why Drink Beer
Keeping In Touch With BABB Members
JJ, The Thirsty Hopster, has set up a Google Group for BABB. If you’re new to BABB, please join the Google Group (it’s free, you just need a Google ID, which is also free). Using Google Groups, members can communicate easily with the entire group and group members can decide how often they want to receive messages by setting the frequency to one of four choices. In this way we can let each other know what’s going on in the Bay Area, share news or otherwise share information relevant to the group.
Beer Bloggers Unite
If any of you are also members of the Beer Bloggers Unite ning network, I’ve also set up a BABB group there. Just click on the “Groups” link at the far right of the main menu. That will take you to the group page. From there, I confess I don’t know what comes next. Because I’m the administrator, it doesn’t show me what you see (perhaps someone can let me know the next steps?). Thanks.
BABB Logos
I created a graphic logo to display your community affiliation on your own blog, if you want to. Nothing is mandatory or conditional. If you like, you can link the graphic to this page. I created several different sizes, but if you need a specific size not here, drop me a note and I’ll make one tailored to your needs. Also, please do NOT hotlink to these images. Please download them and put them on your own server. Thanks.
