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First ever beer bloggers’ conference

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Wine bloggers have apparently have had a rather successful blogger conference for several years. Not so for beer bloggers. Until now, that is.

The World’s First Beer Bloggers’ Conference

We are proud to announce the world’s first Beer Bloggers & Social Media Conference. Scheduled for November 5-7, 2010 in Boulder, Colorado, the conference will bring together an estimated 150 beer bloggers and others involved with online and social media in the beer industry.

The conference will include excellent dinners, delicious beer tastings, interesting speakers, and outstanding academic sessions designed to help beer bloggers improve their trade. We have already lined up some serious support including the Boulder Beer Company and Oskar Blues Brewery as our two dinner sponsors, Draft Magazine to help promote the conference, and the Boulder Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Colorado Brewers Guild. The host hotel is the Boulder Marriott.

It’s being run by the same people who do the wine bloggers conference, so they know what they’re doing.

Are you going?

Colorado is number one

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In beer production, anyway.

The Beer Institute recently announced that 23.3 million barrels were brewed in Colorado in 2006, making them the top producing state. That’s 724.5 million gallons. Or, 1219 pints for every man, woman, and child in the Centennial State. It beat out California and New York, numbers 1 and 3 based on population. (Colorado ranks 22 for population.)

A large part of that comes from Coors, of course.

The Beer Institute and the National Beer Wholesalers Association also found that beer contributes $12.4 million annually to Colorado’s economy.

(via Brew Dad)