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Bay Area Beer Bloggers

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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

  1. Chuck Lenatti at allbrews
  2. Jesse Sand at Bar Stories (currently on hiatus)
  3. Derrick Peterman at Bay Area Beer Runner
  4. Darren at Bay Area Homebrewing & Beer & Appreciation
  5. Cortlandt at Beer Adventures Blog
  6. Jesse Friedman at Beer & Nosh
  7. Steve Shapiro & Gail Ann Williams at Beer by BART
  8. Bruce Paton, who is the Beer Chef
  9. David Jensen at Beer 47
  10. Chris Nelson & Merideth Canham-Nelson, who collectively are The Beer Geek
  11. Chris Galvin at Beernerd
  12. Jon Weber at Beer Obsessed
  13. Brian Yaeger at Beer Odyssey
  14. Craig Davis at Beers, Beers, Beers
  15. John Foster & Motor at Beer School
  16. Peter Estanial at Better Beer Blog
  17. Jay Brooks at Bottoms Up: On Beer
  18. Mario Rubio at Brewed For Thought
  19. Justin Crossley at the Brewing Network
  20. Jay Brooks at the Brookston Beer Bulletin
  21. Ali LaRaia at A Date With Flavor
  22. Bill Manley at The Designated Drinker
  23. Ashley Routson a.k.a. The Beer Wench at Drink With The Wench
  24. Troy McClure SF at Golden Gate Beer Blog
  25. Jay Hinman at Hedonist Beer Jive
  26. Sean Z. Paxton who is the Homebrew Chef
  27. Juan at Juan’s Home Brewery
  28. John Heylin at Nor Cal Beer Guy
  29. Tom Gilhuley at One Brew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  30. Simon Ford at Overcarbed
  31. Rob DeNunzio at Pfiff!
  32. Travis at Suds or Duds
  33. Jessica “JJ” Jones at The Thirsty Hopster
  34. Fred Abercrombie at Ünnecessary Ümlaut
  35. Nate, Oliver & Ty at The Urban Beer Explorer
  36. 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.

{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Rob June 6, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Glad to be a part of it! So when’s the inaugural event?

And what does that make us, babbies?

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2 Peter June 6, 2008 at 10:27 pm

I’m all down for an inaugural event. A BABB homebrew festival? A BABB Beer and Food Event?

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3 Darren June 7, 2008 at 8:29 am

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.

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4 Brent June 11, 2008 at 9:23 am

I’ll buy a T-shirt with that cool logo, for sure.

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5 Brian Yaeger September 4, 2008 at 1:17 pm

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

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6 Brett Hauff September 10, 2008 at 10:36 am

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

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7 Jesse Friedman September 12, 2008 at 1:45 pm

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?

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8 Tom Gilhuley October 16, 2008 at 5:44 pm

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!

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9 Travis November 24, 2008 at 2:40 pm

I’m down with the Bay Area Beer Bloggers. We do a video blog about beers from all over the world. Would love to get some kind of gathering together!

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10 Ali LaRaia January 30, 2009 at 11:09 am

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!

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11 troymccluresf July 2, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Any chance I’d be considered worthy?

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12 The Beer Connoisseur™ Magazine August 13, 2009 at 7:31 pm

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Cheers,

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13 simon August 31, 2009 at 11:04 am

hi Jay,
i’m a longtime fan of your site(s) and many of the blogs in BABB. i recently started my own blog here in SF (www.overcarbed.com) and would be honored to be a BABB member. thanks!

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14 The Beer Wench October 6, 2009 at 8:26 pm

Hey! I’m a recent transplant to the Great Bay Area (specifically Santa Rosa area). And guess what? I’m a beer blogger! Permission to use the logo?

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15 Cliff Dunning October 9, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Greetings!

I host the Bay Area Beer Socials group and actively promote and participate in events throughout the Bay Area. I would like to invite all BABBer’s to join me at the Holiday Beer Festival, November 15th at Ft.Mason. The event is hosted by BevMo and features over 100 specialty beers and ales developed for the holiday season. There will also be a number of local breweries presenting their holiday beers for all to sample. Beacuse he is getting a late start, the producer would like to get the word out to people as soon as possible. The attached information should help in any postings. http://www.nightthatneverends.com/bevmo_holiday.html

Thanks,

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16 HurraBier! October 23, 2009 at 11:12 am

As a former San Franciscan and fellow beer blogger, I think you’ve got a great thing going here! So happy to be able to keep up with the west coast contingent. Feel free to check out my Washington, DC beer bloggings (and a write up of my recent visit to SF), at http://hurrabier.blogspot.com/.

Cheers!

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17 Cortlandt November 30, 2009 at 3:26 pm

Hi, I have a blog and live in the east bay.

http://beeradventures.wordpress.com

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18 John Heylin February 17, 2010 at 7:43 am

Just started up the website http://www.norcalbeerguy.com which focuses specifically on beer in Northern California.

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