First things first, if you're reading this and you haven't seen Craft Brewers Conference Comes to Boston Day 1 yet, check that out first so you know the background! Then feel free to read on and watch my video recap of Craft Brewers Conference 2009 Day 2:

The day is Wednesday, April 22 2009. Again I find myself waking up quite early with the intention of going to drink craft beer. Am I crazy? Maybe. Am I obsessed? Only slight obsessed... and it's so you don't have to be! Day two of the Craft Brewers Conference in Boston started with the Conference Welcome Address (where I happened to be seated right behind Sam Calagione, Founder of DogFish Head Brewing Company - He's in the blue and yellow hat)(below left). Paul Gatza, Director of the Brewers Association, was up first and talked about the important happenings in the craft beer world for 2008.

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Hi all you Craft Beer Drinkers! For those who don't know me, I'm Jeff from DrinkCraftBeer.com and I'm (along with Co-Founder Devon) am slightly obsessed so you don't have to be. I only clarify why I'm obsessed because this morning (Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 for those not reading this as I type) I found myself waking up at 6am on purpose for the second time in recent memory. The last time was to write Professional Brewer for a Day and involved a life threatening commute through an epic blizzard. Why would I do something so utterly dreadful yet again? Well this year Boston is playing host to the Brewers Assocations' National Craft Brewers Conference. DrinkCraftBeer.com managed to score press credentials to this event so we'll be reporting back to you all throughout the week, starting today with the Boston Proper Brewery Tours!

Each year, the Brewers Association sets up a series of brewery tours in the host city and surrounding areas. The Boston Proper tour included (from first stop to last): Beer Works Canal Street, Watch City Brewpub in Waltham, Rock Bottom Boston, Cambridge Brewing Company and Samuel Adams. This year, DrinkCraftBeer.com was on the tour.

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Hi all you Craft Beer Drinkers!

We're excited to report that the 2009 Brewers Association Craft Brewers Conference is in Boston, MA this year from April 21-24! We'll be Twittering live updates from the conference all week long. Check it out on the left hand side of the page or follow us on Twitter.  Check back here for these live Twitter updates as well as articles where we'll report back to you from the conference about what's going on at the 2009 Craft Brewers Conference!


As you've probably noticed, April is the month of DrinkCraftBeer.com featuring sustainable brewing practices on our site. Obviously we couldn't have this theme without focusing on organic craft beer brewers! Organic is one of the earlier sustainability/environmental trends and it survives to this day. Also, we now have a couple breweries in New England focusing completely on organic beer production. I spoke with Max Oswald, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Wolaver's Organic Ales (Middlebury, VT), and Jon Cadoux, Co-Owner and Brewer for Peak Organic Ales (Portland, ME). What did I find out? Well, we know that professionally running a brewery is hard work... Now imagine running a brewery and having to acquire organic grain and hops that are in dangerously low supply and having to jump through government hoops to maintain your USDA Organic Certification. These were just some of the things I learned from talking with these two steadfast advocates of organic and sustainable methods of producing food and grain.

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