2012 North American Beer Bloggers Conference Wraps Up

July 15, 2012 by Allan

The 2012 Beer Bloggers Conference in Indianapolis wrapped up a few hours ago. As always, we will conduct a survey of participants to get their views of the conference and what we can do better … but we think everyone had a great time!

Here were a few highlights:

We had two excellent keynote speakers this year, Garret Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery and Radical Brewing author Randy Mosher. Their speaking styles are wildly different and yet both were motivational and captivating.
Indianapolis came through as an excellent host. In addition to putting on a dinner on Saturday night at the Tomlinon Taproom downtown, the Brewers of Indiana Guild provided us with tickets to their annual festival, Lafayette Brewing Company hosted an excellent lunch and tasting on Friday, and a number of Indiana breweries participated in other parts of the conference, either speaking or pouring beers.
We heard from a number of people who had attended all three conferences that this year’s content was the most interesting. We had an entire morning yesterday devoted to speakers from the beer industry and today’s sessions were all about moving from blogging to doing other things: paid writing, consumer events, getting a brewery job, etc. This was just some of the weekend content.
World Class Beer’s dinner and warehouse tour on Saturday night was eye opening. It is not every day one gets to tour, at night with no one around, through the largest beverage wholesaler building in the country.
As always, the beer drinking is fun. Leinenkugel’s put on a great lunch, our sponsors provided an excellent kickoff at the Expo, and the Live Beer Blogging and Night of Many Beers were again highlights.

Most of all, however, it is the people one meets at this conference that make it special. This year, the third, there were enough repeaters to make it feel like a reunion and enough participating for the first time to keep things fresh. We are already looking forward to next year and will provide more details as soon as we can! If you write a post about the conference, please leave a comment and provide a link so we can track it and others can see your views.

Hiring Digital Marketing Manager for Zephyr United (Our Tour Division)

July 19, 2022 By Sarah Wohlner

Taste Vacations (or, more specifically, our overarching travel company, Zephyr United Travel Collection, which is our sister company) is hiring a new office employee to conduct the marketing for all three of our travel brands.

As you probably know, Zephyr United is a small company. We currently have 4.5 full-time employees (including Allan), and one of those positions is left vacant by our Marketing Lead to pursue a new career path.

We are specifically looking for an individual with marketing experience, preferably in the travel industry. The individual also needs to have an outgoing, caring, fun personality, as all our office staff also guide tours. The pay is not going to make you rich, but the lifestyle benefits are superb. Plus, you can work where you live as we gave up our brick-and-mortar office long ago (way before the pandemic).

Do you know someone who might be interested? Please refer them to the job description and application form. Application deadline is August 10.