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Bay Area Beer Bloggers
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
- Jesse Sand at Bar Stories (currently on hiatus)
- Derrick Peterman at Bay Area Beer Runner
- Darren at Bay Area Homebrewing & Beer & Appreciation
- Jesse Friedman at Beer & Nosh
- 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
- Jon Weber at Beer Obsessed
- Brian Yaeger at Beer Odyssey
- Craig Davis at Beers, Beers, Beers
- John Foster & Motor at Beer School
- Peter Estanial at Better Beer Blog
- Jay Brooks at Bottoms Up: On Beer
- Mario Rubio at Brewed For Thought
- Justin Crossley at the Brewing Network
- Jay Brooks at the Brookston Beer Bulletin
- Ali LaRaia at A Date With Flavor
- Jay Hinman at Hedonist Beer Jive
- Juan at Juan’s Home Brewery
- Tom Gilhuley at One Brew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Rob DeNunzio at Pfiff!
- Travis at Suds or Duds
- Jessica “JJ” Jones at The Thirsty Hopster
- Nate, Oliver & Ty at The Urban Beer Explorer
- Joey & Jen McDaniel at Wet Your Whistles
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.
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.
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Glad to be a part of it! So when’s the inaugural event?
And what does that make us, babbies?
I’m all down for an inaugural event. A BABB homebrew festival? A BABB Beer and Food Event?
Hi, new kid on the block. I started a weblog of my homebrewing activities maybe say 6 months ago. Sometimes making a note of the odd brewery tour or festival I’ve attended. I (attempt to) maintain a google calendar of beer and brewing events, and recently added a blog aggregator (work in progress). These are all primarily for my own use, however put it in blog form for perhaps someone else might find the info. interesting or useful. Cheers, I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog and Jay’s as well for some time. Now I know about even more locals. Cool! Please include me in your list, I’d like to participate in whatever y’all come up with.
I’ll buy a T-shirt with that cool logo, for sure.
I’ve got 2 more for the BABB list:
-Jesse Friedman, a homebrewer whose girlfriend graduated from the CIA (not that CIA), does beerandnosh.com
-Mine is beerodyssey.blogspot.com, about my personal relationship with beer, wherever I find it.
Cheers
Hi BABB!
Suds or Duds would like to be a member of the community. We are a East Bay based group of guys that share a fondness for beer. We launched our site just a few weeks ago and feature video reviews of a variety of beers. Check out the site!
And thanks for the consideration!
Cheers,
Brett
I love it! (also, my name is spelled wrong up there. Someone might have been doing some serious beer research while typing…)
Maybe some sort of beer round table / live blogging event in our future?
Awesome!
I just moved out to the Bay Area from Fla. I’ve been writing a beer blog for the past year+.
Now that I’m writing from here, I’d love to join the list and spread the good word.
Check out: onebrewoverthecuckoosnest.blogspot.com
Prost!
I love this idea! I have a food/beer blog, I’d love to be part of this though. Check out my site’s beer section!
Thanks!