Interview with Greg Koch CEO of Stone

Video of Brian “Spike” Buckowski of Terrapin Beer Company

NEW CODE PUSH!!!

later this week! Exciting new features to be added!

Brewpot.com long awaited updates

Hey everyone,

It has felt like years.  Ok well it has almost been a year I think.  I try not to write blogs these days unless I have very important news.  The website now has a starter amount of beers listed at the establishments in the database.  One issue is taht sometimes the name in the database is not the same as the one given to me by the distributor.  Unfortunately, I have to go through and hand point each mismatch the the appropriate place, which I plan on doing next week.  You can still see where you can find a lot of beers in the city of Atlanta.  So far only one distributor’s data is uploaded and a lot of his data needs to be pointed to the right spot.  We are working on that.  We are also working on being able to search for a bar/restaurant directly and also removing the full page load when you select beer/brewery or establishment from the drop down menu.  I would say within the next few weeks, the location data will start becoming much more useful and usable so be patient and I will make a wonderful website for you all!  If you want to play with the site, searching for “Allagash White” seems to bring back nice results.

Also, I just got back from the Craft Brewer’s Conference and have fun interviews to share with you all as soon as they are edited.  My beer expert Matt Simpson interviewed Jim Koch of Sam Adams, Greg Koch of Stone, as well as brewers from Terrapin, Duck-Rabit, Nogne-O, Deschutes, Pete from Pete’s Wicked, Flosmore, Flander’s and many more!

In the meantime, follow me on twitter @Brewpot.

Thanks everyone,

Jay

Brewpot.com

Brewpot is up!! But we need your help!

Hey everyone, thanks so much for checking this all out.  http://www.brewpot.com is up but I need your help in the beer rating.  Please go out this weekend and rate a beer and add it to the website.  Once we all do this for a couple of weeks, we will have generated enough data that we will be able to give you suggestions of other beers to try!

Also keep updated with the facebook page: http://snipr.com/bucet

Thanks everyone in advance!

Cheers,

Jay

How to make your very own Brewpot.com Jack’o'lantern!

Hey Folks, even at a friendly pumpkin carving there was shameless advertising and marketing by me.  I spent a very long time making the perfect brewpot.com pumpkin and it came out AMAZING!  I was in the zone, and sat and the corner carving away while everyone else made a nice simple pumpkin design!  Check out the steps of my very first pumpkin carving ever.  I think it came out great though!

Brewpot is feverishly working on large site update

It has been a few months folks and I know you have all been patiently waiting.  Some site updates are coming in the next few weeks including an entire redo of the rating system.   The last system was cumbersome, confusing and not very useful.  This one is going to be very extensive, easy to use and more more useful for information.  This is partly due to Matt Simpson my beer expert who helped make it.  I am also working with more than one developer to get things rolling even faster.   I know it has taken longer than anyone would have ever imagined but the end is near.  In the meantime, I am going to start helping you guys out by getting products for you to enjoy.  I have been reading a lot of beer books lately, and I feel it’s time for me to share my favorites for you to enjoy.   I will list them and you can tell me what you think, and as always feel free to comment!!  There is also a rumor somewhere that I will be selling the perfect beer glassware, but that might just be a rumor!

Talk to you all very soon!

The Craft Beer rating website Brewpot.com is up!

After what seems like FOREVER Brewpot.com is up and working rather smoothly.  Some of the searching is a bit cumbersome and I recommend typing in what you are looking for and waiting for the drop down box to suggest you what you want.  Also you will need to remove the location because the restaurants haven’t been added to the system yet and beers are only located by their brewery.  The Beer rating functionality is working and is explained in either education/how to rate or “first time here?” link.  Please set up an account and profile some beers.  Give me tons of feedback either on this blog or through the brewpot messaging system.  There is a cool feature of beer news down in the “Industry News” column of the page, which can be cool.  I also hired Jessica Moss, the beer maestro for Muss and Turners who also has been written about in the Atlantan as well as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  She is an amazing find and a great writer and having her on board will get brewpot some awesome content.  I also plan on bundling beer blogs into one easy to get place.  Unfortunately, this stuff just takes time!  I am working my web developers as fast as I can.

If you live in Illinois you might want to try some beer with your pizza-beer??

Tom Seefurth has created the worlds first culinary beer, “Mamma Mia Pizza Beer” and its now available in Peoria, IL and throughout the region. I haven’t had a chance to try it but a girl I am dating is flying up that way for a conference, so hopefully she can bring me back some!  My question is, when can you get it with pepperoni or anchovies?

Beer prices to increase $1.80 per sixpack in CA

Craft beer has already seen a surge in prices with the average six pack costing $1 more due to hops and barley shortages. Now California says it is broke and part of its plan is to increase taxes on beer by $1.80. This would be devastating to the craft beer community because many Californians would think twice about buying a delicious locally grown and supported craft beer for a cheaper macrobrew. Read about the article here in the politics section of the LATimes.

If you don’t live in California and California legislature passes this bill, your state could easily be next!

The bill does not have a number yet but Jim Beall is the most radical assemblyman trying to pass this. (AB number pending, sponsor Jim Beall, D-San Jose)

“Some people are e-mailing, threatening to come and slug me,” said Assemblyman Jim Beall (D-San Jose)