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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If there’s anything I like as much as a good beer, it’s a good book. Better, then, would be a good book about beer.
Thus, the Hop Talk Store.
Observant visitors would have noticed a widget for the store in our sidebar for the last few months, but we’d not mentioned it until now. The store is stocked with every beer book we could find, not to mention a few related magazines, music, clothing, glasses, and accessories. We’ll keep adding more as we find them.
In the interests of full disclosure, yes, this is an Amazon.com aStore. We earn a commission on every sale through the store. It’s not about the money, though, but about offering a resource to our fellow beer lovers. What little money we make gets plowed back into the website to defray hosting costs, etc.
Anyway, check out the store. If you think something should be added to our inventory be sure to let us know.
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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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So, I’m sitting there asking myself… what are your qualifications? I mean, who am ‘I’ to write about beer, styles of beer, the history of beer, the brewing of beer, and what separates a good beer from a great beer?
I couldn’t really get by the question because all that kept running through my head was Micheal Keaton’s response as Beetlejuice to the same question.
Not to mention, my wife was sitting across from me at Doc’s Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, New York, prodding me to tell her what’s on my mind; and, what was that long phone conversation with Al last night about; and, what new time consuming responsibility was I now taking on? (apparently she heard enough)
Oh good, the waiter is here. My wife orders a local Saratoga Lager and I go for something more hoppy. While we wait for our drinks, I tell her all about Hop Talk, what we plan to discuss, why we are doing it; and, I confess my concerns about my qualifications.
Our beers come in the middle of my spewing excitement of talking about beer, my years of home brewing, and good times like right then to talk while enjoying a great meal over a beer. When the waiter walks away, I look at my beer and say, “that’s not a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale”. I take a sip… a potentially fantastic pilsner, but slightly skunky… I think they serve Stella Artois here.
The waiter politely takes it back to the bartender and returns with apologies and an extra large glass of Pale Ale. “The bartender apologizes, you were right, that was a Stella Artois.”
Well, that was enough for me. I was thinking to myself… qualified? Check.
p.s. If you go to Doc’s, I’m a fan of the Steak Au Poivre
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