I still have a day job. This past month has been incredibly busy, not to mention a couple of trips with the family and lawn maintenance. Needless to say, I did not write a contribution for the August Session. Heck, I was so busy I didn’t even get a chance to post an announcement as I usually do.

Slacker.

Yeah, I know. There’s no excuse. I need to adjust my priorities, Mister.

Anyway, Number 18 was themed “Happy Anniversary” and hosted by The Barley Blog.

Use this as an excuse to celebrate. Open a limited release anniversary beer from your favorite brewer. Enjoy that special beer you normally only open on your wedding anniversary or birthday. Either way, tell us about it. Why is it a beer you may only drink once a year? Why is that brewery’s annual release the one you selected?

Upwards of thirty people participated in this edition of the Session. Interesting reads.

Jim at lootcorp is the next host.

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Today marks the two year anniversary of the launch of Hop Talk. Two years! Can you believe it?

We’re not much for navel-gazing around here. We’d rather talk about beer. And drink it. Preferably in conjunction with each other.

For those of you who are interested in such things, here are some statistics (as of yesterday):

• 314 posts
• 508 comments and trackbacks
• 48,312 unique visitors
• 79,136 page views
• 350+ RSS subscribers
• Most popular article: How to Pour a Black and Tan
• Busiest day: March 17, 2008

View the stats from the first anniversary

I’ve renewed the domain and web hosting for another year, so it looks like we’ll be doing this again next July.

Of course, it’s the readers that make a blog worthwhile. So thank you for staying with us another year. I am humbled by the fact that people have added us to their daily reading regimen.

We’ve had a great time this past year. Raise a glass with us.

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Today marks the one year anniversary of the launch of Hop Talk. It was Ron who started us off, wondering if he was qualified to even talk about beer.

We’ve had a great time. Let me tell you, it’s almost addicting this blogging thing. Being able to use it as an excuse to drink beer is almost too good to be true. More than once in this past year, when I mentioned to my wife that I needed to come up with something to write about, she invariably said “okay, let’s go to the beer store”. (She also came up with the name. I love her.)

That’s not to say it hasn’t been work.

Here are some statistics (as of yesterday):

• 360 posts
• 390 comments
• 20,290 unique visitors
• 37,185 page views
• 125+ RSS subscribers

Wow! Usually it’s only my friends who are interested in what I have to say, and even then not all of the time. That so many other people are interested is, like, the coolest thing ever.

Of course, if it wasn’t for your interest, your thoughtful comments, and your pingbacks, we’d feel like we were talking to a wall. Not that we wouldn’t anyway, but it’s definitely not as interesting and we may not have made it this far.

We’ve had a great time this past year. Thank you for coming along.

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