by Logan on August 23, 2010
Last week my wife had a brilliant idea. When I say a brilliant idea, you could almost say it was a life changing idea. For years one of America’s favorite camping treats, the s’more, has consisted of a graham cracker, chocolate, and a roasted marshmallow or two.
Well my friends, the time has come to add a 4th ingredient to make the classic s’more so much better. You may have already guessed what it is. What makes everything better? BACON!!!
So Friday night after my wife came up with the idea (I’m sure others have came up with idea before, but it was a first for us), we decided to try it out. Let me tell you it was simply amazing. The first one we tried had 1 strip of bacon which was good. We decided to add 2 strips of bacon to the second one and it was as good as the first time you crack open a bottle of a new homebrew and realize that it is the best you’ve ever brewed.
To me, s’mores will never be the same. Without the layer or two of bacon, it’s like going back to drinking mediocre beer once you’ve tasted the best. It just isn’t the same.
I know this isn’t really a beer related post, but it was so good that it would have been a crime not to post about them. Plus my brewing buddy Sean and his wife came over to try them out with us while we drank for the first time the amber we brewed (way over carbonated, but that’s a whole different story).
Before you say gross to the bacon s’mores, try it out. Once you’ve tried it, you may never go back.
What are your thoughts?
by Logan on July 30, 2010
Blog About Beer Redesign
The new site design for Blog About Beer is now live (in case you haven’t noticed). It was designed to give a nice and clean look to the site as well as speed up page load time. You might also notice that I added a new Blog About Beer logo to further brand the blog.
Along with the new look I added 3 ways that you can connect and stay informed with what’s going on around the craft beer industry and Blog About Beer.
- Twitter
If you’re on Twitter, follow me at @blogaboutbeer. I love social media and love connecting with other beer fans in 140 characters or less.
- Facebook
Most people are on Facebook these days so I created a Facebook page for Blog About Beer where you can “like” this blog and connect with other visitors of this site.
- Newsletter
Signup for the newsletter and I’ll send an email once a month with top posts for the previous month, coupons and specials from beer related sponsors, and additional content not found on this site. Also, for signing up to the newsletter you can download a free eBook of over 500 home brewing recipes. To sign up just fill out the form on the right sidebar of the site.
Let me know what you think about the new design and if you run across any errors or problems.
by Logan on July 16, 2010
I know I haven’t updated this site a ton since I took it over the beginning of this month, however I’ve been working on a few things and will start blogging close to daily come the middle of August. Until then, I’m in the middle of doing a nice redesign of this site, new logo, and adding more content.
One of the recent additions I’ve made was to create a mobile version of the blog, so now you can read Blog About Beer from your iPhone, Android, or most mobile devices. A nice feature is that you don’t need to remember any specific URL, as you just have to go to blogaboutbeer.com and it will automatically detect your device and redirect you to the mobile site.
It is beer fest season in Oregon with the Portland International Beer Festival this weekend and the Oregon Brew Fest next weekend, so I’ll be a busy guy for the next week.
Have a great weekend.
Hi everyone, my name is Logan Thompson and I am the new owner of Blog About Beer. I wanted to take a minute and introduce myself as well as let you know my vision for this site. As most of you probably know, Luke started up his own brewery (I’m a bit jealous about that still), and didn’t have time to maintain this site. That’s were I stepped in, took a look at the great content that he has produced over the years (since 2007) and decided to buy the site and have great plans for the future.
Who Am I?
Well to start off I’m currently a 28 year old guy, married to a beautiful wife and have a new daughter who was born in April 2010 (you can see I’m a proud dad). I currently own an Internet marketing company during the day and brew beer, play drums, volunteer with middle schoolers, keep up to date with the Seahawks and Blazers, and spend time with my family on nights and weekends. Oh yeah, I’m also known for liking extremely spicy foods. Whats better to wash down some salsa made with ghost chili’s than a nicely paired beer right? Ok, maybe more than one beer if I’m eating ghost chili’s. Other than that, I love beer. I’m not a beer snob, just a fanatic.
I also live in a suburb of Portland, Oregon…
Portland, Oregon? I thought This Was a Portland, Maine Blog?
Yes, I live in Portland, Oregon, one of the greatest craft beer cities in the US. Why do we have so many breweries in the northwest? Well, we have great water and excellent climate for growing hops. I understand that this blog has had a focus on Maine in the past, but I have some big ideas. Since I’m from the west coast, most of my beer experience comes from the west coast breweries. However in the future I’d love to get consistent guest posts focusing on different areas of the country to make this a blog featuring beer from Portland to Portland (coast to coast).
What’s To Come?
Over the next few weeks you will start seeing new features on the blog such as the following:
- Multiple city beer guides (such as the one currently on the site for Portland, Maine).
- A mobile version of Blog About Beer for your phones.
- More beer reviews.
- Videos and interviews with brewers.
- Lots of new blog posts.
- Improvements to the blog design.
- and a whole lot more…
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me as I’d love to hear them. If you’re ever in the Portland, Oregon area and want to grab a beer I’d love to meet up. Thanks for the support!
Logan Thompson
Author, BlogAboutBeer.com – July 2010
Well, I have officially sold BlogAboutBeer.com and after two years and 10 months of launching and running the site, it’s time for me to step down and let someone else take the reins and guide Blog About Beer into the future and beyond. I’ll let the new owner introduce himself so as not to steal his thunder or misrepresent his intentions with the site.
Rather, I wanted to take a minute and say goodbye and, more importantly, say thank you. Thank you to everyone who has read and followed the site since its inception. After nearly 3 years, it’s absolutely difficult for me to see the site go, but I’m confident that I’m leaving it in good, very capable hands. Thanks to all the readers, thanks to everyone who has commented on a post, everyone who has emailed me, everyone who has come up to me at an event to introduce themselves; thanks to all the breweries and companies who have sent me products to review or given me tickets to their events; thanks to BlueHost.com for being a kick-ass web hosting company with virtually zero downtime and great customer service; thanks to the thousands of you who have visited the site and the hundreds who have subscribed to the RSS feed, despite my often embarrassingly dismal coverage of the craft beer world, over the years; thanks to my friends, family and my girlfriend for putting up with my often obsessive blogging habits; and thanks to everyone for your well-wishes in my next endevor, Baxter Brewing Co. (here’s the announcement I made on the site a few weeks ago, in case you missed it).
If you enjoyed what I had to say and want to continue to follow my progress and updates, I’ll definitely be blogging about Baxter’s progress on BaxterBrewing.com from time-to-time, so check it out. And hopefully I can come back to BlogAboutBeer.com for a guest post or two, every once-in-awhile, too.
The site will be in a state of flux over the next few days as the domain and database transfers happen, but please stick around and please give the new author the same level of attention and respect you always showed me. I have no doubt he’ll continue to show you a good time.
And I guess that’s all I have to say about that. So long, and thanks for all the beers!
la’heim,
Luke Livingston
Author, BlogAboutBeer.com – Aug 2007-June 2010
Hi and welcome to Blog About Beer. My name is Logan and I live just north of Portland, Oregon, a city that has more craft breweries than any other in the US. I'm a full time marketer, blogger, and dad to the most beautiful girl in the world. I'm also a homebrewing and craft beer fanatic.