It was a dark and stormy night. (Not really, but it sounds good.)
An epic evening of beer drinking was underway, with bottles of Founders Nemesis and Java Stouts and barleywines and cellared brews being split and imbibed. Ryan had just returned from another swing through Michigan and brought back an embarassment of brewed riches, and gathered some other similarly-enthusiastic-about-beer gentlemen together to share the joy. Karl, in an example of an alcohol-induced flash of insight, said something to the effect of “You know, you should really start a blog.”
One hosting package, one URL, a bunch of potential site designs and a whole bunch of potential site names later (after a flurry of emails where one of us broke down and said “why don’t we just call the damn thing ‘we’re guys and we like to drink beer and this is us drinking beer and writing about it dot com‘”) GuysDrinkingBeer.com was born.
And here we are.
Why are we here? Well, mostly because we enjoy beer, we enjoy going to various places to drink beer, we enjoy tracking down rare and obscure beer around Chicago and the greater Midwest, and we enjoy all things related to the brewing arts. Some of us travel the midwestern states on a regular basis to scour out the best that the country’s center has to offer. Some of us have drank their way across the nation, from 40s of Country Club Malt Liquor in California to craft brews outside of Presidential inaugurations. And some of us just plain old like quality brewing. It’s all good – and you’ll find it all here, sans snobbery.
We’ve got lots of plans for Guys Drinking Beer, from beer reviews to vertical tastings across many a year, to bar reviews and specialty draft offerings and a general appreciation of beer overall. But mostly, we just wanted to create a space online where we could talk about all the great beer we drink, and appreciate the bartenders, craftsmen and brewers who bring it to us.
So with that, a hearty cheers, Skol, Sláinte, Prost and Na zdorovje. Let’s go drink some beer!
