October 27, 2006

Tijunana Beer Fest 10/27-30

Craft beers come to a head in Tijuana | The San Diego Union-Tribune: At Aqua Caliente Racetrack today and Avenida Revolucion Sat/Sun. Nice touch with Czech music to simulate the beer-hall of days past...Bohemian Mariachi?!

Posted by outlawv at 06:00 AM | Comments (0)

October 21, 2006

Now On Tap Blog To Do List

Here's what's Now On Tap for the blog....

  • Fix the template to something readable!
  • Get RSS feed available to readers and email subscribers using Feedburner. RSS 2.0, podcast enabled a must.
  • Get website statistics moving using Google Analytics
  • Get a blog comments strategy in place.
  • Get some Google Adsense placement to see if this can pay for itself.
  • Add widgets to show our Bloglines list of news subscriptions.
  • Add widget to show our Now On Tap bookmarks at del.icio.us (SD Blog has an interesting little thing on their page.)
  • Hook in with some other beer communities, such as forums at RateBeer, BeerAdvocates, and social networks like del.icio.us, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr.
  • Speaking of Flickr, get beer pictures integrated into the site.
  • Get Audioblog set-up for posting live beer audio updates.


    Lots to do, but it should make for some fun interaction between beer folks looing for what's Now On Tap!

    Posted by outlawv at 07:22 AM | Comments (0)

    • Map of Beer In San Diego...Cool!


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    The coolest map of brewpubs, beer bars, breweries, and stores (excellent) to get beer in San Diego is the work of the Beer Mapping Project reaches us from Declan at San Diego Blog. It's got most of my stops, including Par Liquor on Waring Rd, SD Brewing, Cheers Liquor and Deli on Jackson Dr., Bev Mo La Mesa, Pizza Port Solana, and more. It's also up to date on with sort-of recent brewery moves like Stone to Escondido, Port Brewing to old-Stone San Marcos...so it looks like it's kept up to date....excellent!

    A couple more to add to the list:

  • Mission Trails Market: 8181 Mission Gorge Road. The owner loves his job, which includes stocking some of the best locals (including seasonals) and selling them for reasonable prices (unlike some others do). He also has a tasting room where I've seen wine tastings...maybe a Now On Tap beer tasting might be cool...and local!
  • Windmill Farms: 6386 Del Cerro Blvd.
    San Diego, CA 92120. My main local place to get Alpine Pure Hoppiness (it goes so quick off the local shelves, they have a 4 bottle per customer limit...there's some neighbors drinking good beer!), other Alpine Brewing products, full Stone bottle line, various Green Flash including their ReaperAle line, Lagunitas, and more.

    Whoever that Beerinator cat is, he/she would definitely be a cool interview for the show. The site is totally blogger friendly with RSS feeds and subscription buttons (it's on the Now On Tap! list now) and blog updates, like the recent State of the Beer Mapping Project Address showing they are continuing to improve this service. Keep on Tappin'!

    Posted by outlawv at 06:57 AM | Comments (0)

    • October 20, 2006

    Now On Tap Launched!

    Now On Tap, the weblog supporting the soon to be radio show, Now On Tap...

    A radio news and talk show about what’s now on tap at establishments featuring the unique craft beers brewed in and featured at restaurants, brew pubs, breweries, and featured beer events in the emerging beer capital of the United States, San Diego County and at favorite regional destinations across the U.S. Features include in-depth run-downs of new and featured beers at establishments across the region, craft beer related events calendar, interviews with knowledgeable brewers (both commercial and home), publicans, restaurateurs, distributors, suppliers, reporters, and other experts in the growing craft brewing industry.

    Posted by outlawv at 08:35 AM | Comments (0)