Looking at the number of posts some people manage from the Great American Beer Festival — sometimes directly from the festival floor — I sure feel like a slacker. Strangely, you’ll find more me in some of these blogs than you did here.

Offered for your consideration:

- Rick Sellers at Pacific Brew News Blog.

- Bill Brand at Inside Bar Area or What’s on Tap (same posts).

- Maggie Dutton at Seattle Weekly. Warning: Her posts will likely fall from the top as others are added. You can visit her blog, The Wine Offensive, for occasional beer insights.

- Teri Fahrendorf at Road Brewer. If you haven’t been reading her trip diary, shame on you. Somebody get this woman a book contract.

- And the live from the floor part: Beer Molly literally holds up her camera/phone, snaps and you’re live on the Internet. If you scroll through My Beer Pix you’ll eventually come across a picture of my badge. That’s like the 94th alternative spelling of Hieronymus in the Dictionary of Names.

- Stephen Beaumont offers his notes from the floor. He’s right about (not) calling trends too early.

And I finish with this clip, available at You Tube and Flying Dog’s Open Source Beer Project. I even mention Bill Brand (that’s him laughing in the background - Stan on camera makes us all giggle). More proof I was in Denver. (In fact, I was also at Flying Dog two days before, and will write about the Open Source Project later this week. Gimmick or beer?)

That’s not me in the hat. I arrive 18 seconds in.

Posted: October 15th, 2007 under Beer culture.