Today is Pete Reid’s 61st birthday. Pete was the publisher of Modern Brewery Age. I first met Pete a number of years ago at a Craft Brewers Conference but finally got to know him much better during a trip to Bavaria a few years back, where the two of us took a side trip to Salzburg to visit the original Austrian Trumer Brauerei. I think he may be retired or at least shut down MBA, as the domain name is no longer active, plus I haven’t seen him at beer events lately, either. Still, join me in wishing Pete a very happy birthday.

At the Zotler Brauerei in Germany.

At the Bavarian Hop Museum, that’s Pete in the back row in the baseball cap.

Pete, me and Chris Rice, from All About Beer magazine, during a trip to Belgium a few years ago.

Peter Reid, with Gary Ettelman, of Ettelman & Hochheiser at the NBWA convention in 2008.

Toasting with Horst Dornbusch at the Bamberg Brewing Museum.