Drink Craft Beer Turns 5!
Wow! We can hardly believe it ourselves, but this month (June 2011) marks 5 years since we started Drink Craft Beer. The whole thing started as a conversation between the two of us about starting a MySpace page about beer (remember how MySpace actually mattered 5 years ago?). Five minutes into that conversation we scrapped the MySpace idea and decided we would think a bit bigger...we were going to build a website! We didn't know how to build one and we didn't know what we were going to write about (aside from beer) but we knew we loved craft beer and thought it seemed like a great idea. Being a tad impulsive, we owned the domain name within 15 minutes of the conversation starting. And so, Drink Craft Beer, the very site you're on right now, was born.
Over the last five years we've had some amazing experiences. We've driven all over the country for beer (twice!), we've met a bunch of amazing brewers, we've tasted some phenomenal beer and, perhaps best of all, we've met a ton of really fun people! We'd like to think that this is just the beginning for us, though. In five years we've seen some amazing trends within craft beer and from where we're sitting things are only poised to get better.
What we really want to say, though, is "thank you!" Thank you to all of you who have made this site possible. We had no idea when we started this site that so many people would get involved. Thanks to the friends who have been roped into helping out at our events, thanks to the people who have come out to those events, thanks to those who read our site, thanks to you who follow us on Twitter or on Facebook, thanks to all the brewers and people who work in the industry, thanks to all the beer writers and beer people we've met who have supported us...and anyone else we may have missed, thanks to you too!
We can't have a birthday without a party, though, and you better believe that we're going big for our Number Five! We're finalizing the exact details, but we're happy to say that we'll be celebrating this event with a big night of New England Craft Beer at Stoddard's Food and Ale in Downtown Boston on Thursday, June 30th! We're going to take over their taps with an amazing selection of New England Craft Beer! We're going to have a charity silent auction! We're going to be giving away some really cool stuff! And more! So come enjoy a pint, or several, with us at Stoddard's Food and Ale in Downtown Boston the night of June 30th and help us celebrate Drink Craft Beer's 5th Birthday! Formal event page to come with more details. We're looking forward to celebrating and toasting face to face with many of the people who have made this Drink Craft Beer thing such a success!
RSVP here to let us know if you'll be coming to celebrate with us...it's not binding, we just want to have an idea of how many of you we'll get to meet!
Cheers,
Devon and Jeff
Oh yeah...and for those that have been here before you might notice the site looks a little different today. This is our little present to ourselves. HUGE thanks our good friend Brian, the awesome designer behind all of our branding, including the logo and new site.
