About

About The Thirsty Hopster blog:

This blog is about enjoying good beer. It contains a wide variety of content organized into a few simple categories:

  • Beer Reviews: opinion and commentary on beers and beer-serving venues. These beer reviews cover a balance of newly released or hard to find beers, locally produced beers, and personal favorites of The Thirsty Hopster. Beer-serving venues reviewed will include beer bars, brew pubs, restaurants with interesting beer lists, and breweries.
  • Beer News: updates and commentary on developments related to beer and brewing. These postings vary from national or international news items to state (California) and city (San Francisco) items of interest.
  • Beer Events: pre- and post-event coverage of beer celebrations including festivals, tastings, meet-the-brewer nights, dinners, competitions, and conferences. These postings emphasize events in the San Francisco Bay Area, but cover national and international events as capacity here at The Thirsty Hopster allows.
  • Beer Class: explanations of topics within the fields of beer and brewing. The posting primarily cover introductory concepts aimed at new beer drinkers and discussions of homebrewing techniques.

About me:

I am a craft beer advocate, homebrewer, and all around beer enthusiast living in San Francisco. I started this blog in 2007 at the request of friends who wanted a trusted source of good beer recommendations.

If I’m not drinking or making beer, I’m probably backpacking, sitting in the park reading, or eating breakfast food.

I hope you enjoy the blog and feel free to leave any suggestions for it here.

Thanks!

-JJ (a.k.a. The Thirsty Hopster)