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
- 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.
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’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!
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!
Any chance I’d be considered worthy?
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Cheers,
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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!
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?
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,
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!
Hi, I have a blog and live in the east bay.
http://beeradventures.wordpress.com
Just started up the website http://www.norcalbeerguy.com which focuses specifically on beer in Northern California.
Any plans to meet up at Boonville this year? Just started my blog a few months ago.
dk
I am impressed by your tremendous beer knowledge. I am an amateur but just started a blog for female brewers to encourage more women to brew. I am amazed at how easy it is, how fun it is, and how good my beer is. I have been making mostly cream ale and kolsch ale. I’m at brewess.wordpress.com.
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I started a new blog about beer. Hopefully you guys will follow and enjoy it.
Hello, great site and thanks for building the community. You can add one more blog to the list. Just started a few days ago and covered the Beer & Cheese event at Social Kitchen. Check it out. http://www.alloverbeer.com and on Twitter @AllOverBeer Thank you.
I’ve been browsing the world of beer podcasts, and I have yet to find any Norcal focused beer podcasts. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Secondly any Pacific Northwest beer podcasts? Thanks!
Josh
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Hi Jay
I’ve just started a beer blog, having recently moved to the Bay Area from the UK and was very excited to find your site. The BABB sounds like a great idea and I’d love to interact with the community. Could you please add my blog to the list?
Dr Hubbard’s Beardy Beer Blog
http://hubbardsbeerblog.wordpress.com
Cheers!
Chris
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