I’m Mike. I’m originally from Bensalem, PA (just outside of Philadelphia) and now live in Boynton Beach, FL. I work in tech support for a web hosting company, own a house, love my Philly sports teams and think I live a pretty good life. Well my life got even better when a few years back my cousin in PA took me to Isaac Newton’s in Newtown, PA. He had me try Samual Smith’s Oatmeal Stout and I loved it. I didn’t know there were great beers out there. All I knew was what commercials were put in front of me.
I came back to Florida but had no idea where to find good beer. Luckily a Total Wine and More opened up close to my house where I just went up and down the aisle picking up interesting sounding beers. Some I liked, some I didn’t and now some of those that I didn’t I now like.
I started reading BeerAdvocate and RateBeer and started finding places that had good beer around here. Then from the recommendation of a co-worker I started a beer blog in June of 2008. I barely knew anything about beer except that I wanted to learn more and that I did.
Brian (Total Wine), Phil (Dos Beerigos) and me (Photo from dosbeerigos.com)
Now I have developed a little bit of a following and I have met some absolutely awesome people in the craft beer community from other bloggers, people that work at the bars and stores, people the work for the distributors to even people who work for the brewers. And there is one thing we all have in common, we love beer. So I am here to show you how much I love beer and to celebrate it with all those that do. And hopefully I can open some eyes to craft beer in the meantime.
Cheers!
