Hello everyone, December marks the our first anniversary here at hereforthebeer.com. We want to thank all of the wonderful people that we had the opportunity to meet this year. We hope that you enjoy our montage (the first good use of the song as far as we are concerned)! We look forward to an even more interesting and exciting 2010 on here for the beer … Cheers!

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Actually, I am torn as to call this a parody – it’s more of a tribute.  If you recall the video from the Craft Brewers Conference that was put together by the folks at Stone Brewing, these home brewers took it upon themselves to make their own version celebrating home brewing.

While we get our act together and get back to making our videos, we thought we would give a shout out to the home brewers who clearly put a lot of time and effort into these 4 minutes.

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In this episode, we head to the Craft Brewers Conference and Trade Show in Boston, Massachusetts.  This amazing conference with over 2000 attendees is run by the Brewers Association.  Check out this video from the conference that features Trade Show floor.  This conference was unlike any other we had ever been to.  The most noticeable difference was the amount of great beer available, I mean everywhere!  Beer was available throughout the trade show floor and at the many hospitality events throughout the week.

It was great to catch up with some of the friends we have made during our beer journeys and to have opportunity to make so many new ones.  The most notable facet of this event was the genuine camaraderie amongst the brewers.  They are a community of people willing to share their knowledge and techniques with one another.  It was refreshing that they do not see each other as competition, but as colleagues.  They share a common goal and that is to produce really good beer.

We hope you enjoy this video and stay tuned for a few more fun episodes from our week in Boston, right here on Here for the Beer.

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We were lucky enough to be able to attend the Craft Brewers Conference in Boston this year.  We have been getting a ton of great footage and will have a few fun episodes coming out soon from here.  In the interim we wanted to share this, a cool montage, shot for the keynote address which was presented by Greg Koch. (On a seperate note, check this out – he actually “tweeted” a photo of himself giving the speach here!)  The brewers in the video all worked together to brew a beer for this event.  The video and the beer couldn’t be more symbolic of the amazing camradarie that exists in this industry.  Over the past few days we have seen brewers from all over the world sharing stories and pints as they discuss the ins and outs of that beverage we all know and love…beer.  Its truly inspirational and we believe that a many other industries could learn a thing or two from the craft brewing world.

You can check out our tweets from the event here or the ongoing tweets of all of the attendees at the CBC here.  Of course, we hope that you’ll stay tuned for some fun and beer-filled video in the next week from the Craft Brewers Conference right here, on Here for the Beer!

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We are excited to be heading down to Boston for this years Craft Brewers Conference. I am sure that we will get a bunch of great footage down there and it will be a nice way to say “hi” to some of the cool people we have met in our travels.

In their 26th year, the Craft Brewers Association puts on the largest beer industry gathering in North America. This will be our first year attending but based on the schedule and details we have read from others it promises to be much more than an ordinary trade show and conference. (No offense to the Professional Association of Innkeepers International PAII – whose also solid conference we just attended in Atlanta). But the bus tour of Boston area breweries, pre-party hosted by our friends at Harpoon and the promised special release and seasonal samplings really make this look like it has one up on the innkeepers…

If you are going to be down there, please let us know – we would love to hook up with some friends while we are in Boston!  This will only be our second time in the city and we would love some travel advice…

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