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Now that Beer Connoisseur Magazine (BC) is officially online, I just wanted to take a moment to officially announce that I am their West Coast blogger. I am both proud and excited to be a part of the inaugural efforts to get this magazine up and running.

To answer the most obvious question, no, BetterBeerBlog is not going away. If anything, I have plans in the works to help improve the content on this site as well. The lion’s share of my writing will still be for BetterBeerBlog but I’ll be contributing to Beer Connoisseur as well. So expect to see the same sort of content on here that you are accustomed to seeing while the stuff I write about on BC will have a different slant on it.

For the most part, I will still be my own “boss”. I get to write about topics I feel are BC-oriented (not so much with the homebrew topics) and I keep my own schedule. I do have an editor of sorts though who goes overy my work. It’ll be a slightly different experience as I’ll have an editor to answer to. It’s all part of the deal though and if I have any future inclinations to write professionally, then having an editor and deadlines is something I’ll have to get used to.

The ironic part of this whole adventure is that I have never considered myself a “beer connoisseur”. In fact, people would often call me that and I’d correct them by asking them to call me a beer geek instead. If you know me personally or have hung out with me for any given amount of time, you’ll know that I am anything but “snobbish” about my beer. I am still not snobbish about beer. My goal with writing for Beer Connoisseur is to bring light to the Bay Area brew scene on a national level. I believe that we have an excellent brew scene here and it’s time the everyone else were to know.

That being said, if you are reading this and are in the craft brewing industry, shoot me an email (betterbeerblogATgmailDOTcom) if you have event you would like me to cover or promote. I can do so either here on BetterBeerBlog or on Beer Connoisseur, depending on the nature of the event.

In any case, thank you for coming to BetterBeerBlog and reading what I have to say about the craft beer world. There are a million other voices in a million other blogs, all of them dying to be heard amongst the crowd. Know that I truly appreciate the time you spend here and the comments you leave.

Mabuhay!*

*In tagalog, my second language, mabuhay loosely translates to “long live”. We often use this when toasting and in that instance it is the equivalent of cheers or prost.

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