Hugh Sisson of Clipper City – Heavy Seas

Well well folks!  Lots to talk about today!

 

First, I had a great meeting with Georgia Crown and will most likely have their location data in our website in a week or so.  You can expect Unibroue, Flying Dog, Brooklyn and a bunch more!

 

Then,

I met Hugh Sisson of Clipper City and he loved us!  He wants to put all his location data on our website as well as flavors and ingredients and really roll this thing out!  Location data for Clipper City is already available in Georgia.

 

Now, I have my first official Brewpot banner on a brewery website

The great folks at Red Brick (Atlanta Brewing Company) have put our banner on their website!  Thanks Bob and Co.

 

Find Beer in Atlanta

Hey guys,

You can find where to buy beer in the State of Georgia on http://www.brewpot.com for the following breweries:

Allagash
Avery
Bell’s
Boulder
Clipper City
Corona/Modelo (Savannah area only)
Dogfish Head
Great Divide
Highland
Lagunitas
Left Hand
Mendocino
Samuel Smith
Ayinger
Lindemans
Orval
Moon River (Savannah area only)
North Coast
Oskar Blues (Dale’s Pale Ale and others)
Otter Creek/Wolaver’s
Southampton
Lao
Pennichuck
Brewdog
Coopers
Magic Hat (limited data)
Mikkeller
Shmaltz (Coney Island/He’Brew)
Smuttynose
Stone
Duck-Rabbit
Thomas Creek
Uinta
Victory
Delirium
Weyerbacher

Red Brick  – Atlanta Brewing Company

What’s New?

Starting to get more distributor data.. starting to get more breweries involved.

Going to another octane tasting this time to meet the good people at Clipper City (Heavy Seas).  I plan on bringing them a few distributor packets

 

My website doesn’t like the #### character!

Yah so I found out that any bar or brewery that has the # character in the address makes the entire page crap because somewhere between Google Maps and our website the website says I don’t know what to do!  I got my developer on it.  In fact I think he just fixed it.  What a rockstar.

 

Had a great meeeting today with my marketing advisor who works over at a little company company called Coca-Cola.  He has been super helpful and is making me realize that I need to start putting more love and emotion into the website.  He is going out next week to shoot a NCAA commercial with college mascots including Buzz of Georgia Tech!

I am still trying to contact all the brewers I can to get the suggestion engine working.  Let me know if you know any brewers or distributors that woudl be willing to jump on the website and iPhone app.

 

Drink some beers tonight!

Met with Sales Rep of Thomas Creek Brewery at Octane + Hop City

For those of you in the Atlanta area, if you haven’t taken advantage of Hop City’s and Octane’s free beer tasting from Wednesday usually around 5:30-7:30 you need to get in on that!  Go get yourself on the Hop City mailing list and make that happen!  Octane coffee is conveniently located between 19 Starbucks in the greater metro area.  (I love that marketing line!  Brilliant.. Seth Godin would agree!)

 

This week I was able to meet Katie the Sales & Marketing Director of Thomas Creek out of Greenville, SC.   I gave her a few distributor flyers and told her all about adding her data to my website which she said she will look at when she gets a free moment!  Her Atlanta distributor is already listed on Brewpot.com so you can check it out.  I am hoping she will want to get her other distributors on board and I will keep everyone posted to the progress of that.

 

Tonight, Chris, Bruce and I are goign to discuss the immediate future steps of the company as well.  Keep drinking good beer!

Brewpot – Beer rating website – kept in the dark too long!

Hey guys,

I’m going to make more of an effort to say what I have been up to and keep you guys more informed of what is happening.

I am going to start by listing all of the people on this effort.

myself (Jay) promoting to breweries and distributors.

Bruce Redd, one of the lead developers, works on pretty much everything and compiles.  Most recently he has been working on the WCF webservice which will give XML data to the iPhone app.

Chris Beatty, another lead developer, has been focusing on the distributor mapping aspect of the project and created the functionality to allow data to be mapped on the google maps seen on the website.

Jessica Robinson, our front end designer, has been hard at work mocking up the new website set to launch in a couple of weeks.

Chase Bradley, one of our coders, is hard at work developing a picture and video manager for brewers to add their images and videos and associate them to their brewery or even a specific beer!

Justin Michela, is working on a US map where brewers can list what states their beer is available and will allow us users and the breweries to pester the distributors to get their data available to you!

Noah Witherspoon is hard at work on our iPhone app from which I hear is 35% complete!

 

Right now users can profile beers and in the future those ratings will help determine suggestions for you.  You can also find a wide selection of beer available in and around the Atlanta area.  Brewers can manage their flavors and ingredients of their beers with the ability to upload pictures and videos hopefully within a week.  Distributors can give us location data which we can input into the system immediately.

 

How you can help:

If you know any brewers: tell them to create an account and email me jay (at) brewpot  (dot) com their username and i will associate them with that brewery.

If you know any distributors: have them call me or email me and we can discuss adding their data to the system!

Rate as many beers as you can and check back often!

Thanks so much for all your patience and support!

 

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