About Beervana

This blog carries on a tradition of writing about beer that I started almost ten years ago at the Portland weekly Willamette Week--back when craft brewing was new and interesting enough to support a regular columnist. Ah, the good old days! I also wrote a regular column for the Celebrator Beer News--which still supports many regular columnists, though not in the full salary kind of way. (Depending on your habits, a column for the Celebrator might keep you in beer through the month.) My paid beer writing lapsed around the new millenium, but not, of course, my pub-going, beer drinking, or homebrewing.

A few years back, I started political blogging (Notes on the Atrocities, the Oregon Blog, Low on the Hog, BlueOregon, et. al.), but my beer posts were rare. I toyed with the idea of a regular beer blog, but concluded I didn't have the time. Nevertheless, I was screwing around one day (one pretty busy day when I still had no time for a beer blog) and discovered that blogger had "Beervana" as an open url, and ....

Welcome to Beervana.