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Beer Blog Search Engine Explodes!

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Not exactly, but the BBSE has more than doubled in size and is now indexing almost 700 blogs. Who knew that there were that many people out there blogging about beer?

As always, if you have a beer blog you’d like included, please drop us a line.

Here’s the current list of blogs being indexed:

Beer Blog Search Engine now tracking over 300 blogs

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The Beer Blog Search Engine just keeps growing. It has now eclipsed 300 blogs and I know that there are more blogs out there that I don’t know about.

Here are some recent additions:

For more information on the Beer Blog Search Engine, see:

As always, if you know of any others that would be good additions, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.

Black and Tan videos

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Ever since Ron posted his video on making a Black & Tan back in ’06 (then the updated version in ’08) “how to pour a black & tan” has been the most popular search term leading visitors to Hop Talk. Additionally, the traffic here really ramps up this time of year, peaking on St. Patrick’s Day and resulting in five to six times more visitors than usual.

They’re not Irish at all; they just use an iconic Irish beer. It seems odd for people to be so curious about them now. I suppose, though, that it’s a cut above “how to make green beer” (and significantly better than “when will my urine go back to its usual color”).

Anyway, if you’re looking for information on Black & Tans, you’ll find several links in the “Related Posts” section or with a quick search.

Are you planning on drinking something special for St. Patty’s Day?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLwmwt81NjM

Beer Blog Search eclipses 200 blogs

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It seems every time I turn around, I find another site to add to the Beer Blog Search Engine. There are now over 200 blogs focused primarily on beer that are indexed for searching. How fast can we get to 300 do you think?

Anyway, here are some recently added blogs (in no particular order):

For more information on the Beer Blog Search Engine, see:

As always, if you know of any others that would be good additions, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.

Beer Blog Search expansion continues

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I figured it would be a good time to update you on the Beer Blog Search Engine. I keep finding more and more quality blogs to add. Who knew there were that many people out there blogging about beer?

Anyway, here are some recently added blogs (in no particular order):

For more information on the Beer Blog Search Engine, see:

As always, if you know of any others that would be good additions, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.

Beer Blog Search Engine growing and growing

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Back in August I told you about the creation of the Beer Blog Search Engine. Using Google’s Custom Search product, I collected every beer-focused blog I could find and added them. I mostly did it for my own use, because I often want to see what the “beerblogosphere” is saying about a topic. I figured that other people might find it useful too.

I continually add blogs to it. Some I found by following a long chain of links. Others are blogs that have come online just recently.

Here are some new additions (in no particular order):

If you know of any others that would be good additions, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.

Beer Blog Search

Beer Blog Search Engine growing

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A couple of months ago I announced the creation of the Beer Blog Search Engine. Using Google’s Custom Search product, I collected every beer-focused blog I could find and added them. Mostly I did it for myself, because I very often want to see what the “beerblogosphere” is saying about a topic. I figured that other people might find it useful too, which is why I mentioned it.

I’ve continued to add blogs to it as well. Some are ones that I found by following a long chain of links. Others are blogs that have just come online very recently. The search engine is now indexing the contents of about 150 beer-focused weblogs.

Here are some recent additions:

If you know of any others that would be good additions, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.

Beer Blog Search

Beer Blog Search Engine

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Blogging about beer is becoming rather popular. Witness the large number of beer blogs that have come online in the last few months.

I love it. Beer is, as we know, a social thing. The more people talking about it, especially good beer, the better.

Unfortunately, very often finding what beer enthusiasts are talking about is nigh impossible. Search for “beer” or similar on Google and the vast majority of what you get is drunken college-age kids discussing beer pong, their latest beer binge, or how much better one industrial-brewed American light lager is than another. And forget trying to search for information on beer luminary Michael Jackson. It’s not unlike the volume produced by any one of America’s big brewers compared to the entire volume of all craft brewers. (My local convenience store has at any one time a dozen or more cases of Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller Genuine Draft, etc. The depth of their foray into craft beer is a case or two of Yuengling.)

But all is not lost. What if there was a way to get Google to limit its searches to a list of good, non-spammy blogs and other resource-rich beer sites? Well, there is. Take a peek:

Beer Blog Search

Currently a little over 100 hundred beer blogs are included in the index, and I try to add more as I find them.

Of course, that’s a much bigger job than one person can reasonably do. If you know of a blog that you think should be included or, even better, if you’d like to help out managing the listed of indexed blogs, drop me a line. I can be reached at al (at) hop-talk (dot) com or by using our Contact Us page.

So what? Well, try searching for “michael jackson” versus the same search on regular Google.

One of my favorite things to do is to search on a particular beer to see what other bloggers say about it. Such as Dogfish Head’s 90 Minute IPA. More useful than the regular Google search, I think.

I hope you find it useful.