Introducing the Thirsty Hopster Events Calendar

We’ve just published a new page on this site that we’re very excited about and hope you will all find useful.

It’s an Events Calendar meant to make it easier to keep track of what’s going on.  The inspiration for this came about this summer when beer festivals, brewers nights, and beer dinners were pouring in about as fast as The Thirsty Hopster could keep track of them.

This page collects all the “Thirsty Hopster Approved” events onto one calendar that is easily accessible.  Thanks to Google Calendar, you can also subscribe to a feed of Thirsty Hopster events, so that you never miss one as it is added to the calendar.  You can also save the events to your own Google Calendar or Outlook, so that you remember to attend without having to check back in here at the site.

There will likely still be an actual posting in the main body of the blog about each event we’re excited about, but now those posts will have a link at the bottom to the Calendar item.  This way, if you like what you’ve just read, you can click that link, open the Calendar item, and save it to your own calendar.  The Calendar items themselves will also have links back to the posts in which they were originally mentioned.  This way, if you see something on your calendar and don’t remember why it is there, just click the link and the blog post about it will pop up.

What the Thirsty Hopster Events Calendar is not: An exhaustive list of every beer event far and wide.  For that, you are better off using a tool like the BeerAdvocate Beer Calendar or for California the California Beerzine Calendar (which subscribes to The Thirsty Hopster Calendar, so it picks up all of our events).

What the Thirsty Hopster Events Calendar will provide: A thoughtful listing of events we endorse, focused on the San Francisco Bay Area but with occasional forays afield as our travels take us elsewhere.  You will never find anything on here that we wouldn’t attend ourselves, and that’s a promise.

The Calendar is not set up so that members of the public can add to it.  While this limits the range of events we can cover on the Calendar, well, that’s part of the purpose.  We want know and be able to vouch for everything on there.  If you know of an event that you think belongs on the Calendar, please send us an email at thethirstyhopster@gmail.com.  Please also feel free to email us with questions or suggestions about the Calendar.

Enjoy!