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OK, I guess that I have been working in this business since I won the Homebrewers competition for Best Pale Ale at the GABF in 1986. Yep! I took the Gold for the category! Over 486 entries and I took Gold with the first homebrew that I had ever entered in a competition. I thought I was hot stuff! I was destined to be a great brewer. I came to Portland and could not find a job and went back to Steamboat Springs, Colorado where I took over the sales department of KFMU-FM Radio,The World's Only Wind & Solar Powered Radio Station. It was there that I made helping craft brewers in marketing their wonderful products my mission. So it has been 19 years since then, even though I could call it over 20 years because of my work for Old Chicago on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder was in 1984 and I was on the Hall of Foam then.
With 20 years in the business then I finally set out to do what I always thought should have been done a long time ago,
"To develop a beer community of honest discussion about quality beer in a region. One in which every aspect of beer, brewing, distributing, selling, and marketing are discussed openly and honestly among the people of the region where the beer is consumed. To empower the people of this beer community to make better choices in the products that they consume, to help direct the ongoing growth of the Portland beer scene, and to think about what went into getting their beer to their glass." My hopes and dreams are for more people to add their thoughts to this beer blog and keep the dream of better, fresher, beer to all! I raise my glass to all of you! Cheers! Dave Dronkowski
OK, I guess that I have been working in this business since I won the Homebrewers competition for Best Pale Ale at the GABF in 1986. Yep! I took the Gold for the category! Over 486 entries and I took Gold with the first homebrew that I had ever entered in a competition. I thought I was hot stuff! I was destined to be a great brewer. I came to Portland and could not find a job and went back to Steamboat Springs, Colorado where I took over the sales department of KFMU-FM Radio,The World's Only Wind & Solar Powered Radio Station. It was there that I made helping craft brewers in marketing their wonderful products my mission. So it has been 19 years since then, even though I could call it over 20 years because of my work for Old Chicago on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder was in 1984 and I was on the Hall of Foam then.
With 20 years in the business then I finally set out to do what I always thought should have been done a long time ago,
"To develop a beer community of honest discussion about quality beer in a region. One in which every aspect of beer, brewing, distributing, selling, and marketing are discussed openly and honestly among the people of the region where the beer is consumed. To empower the people of this beer community to make better choices in the products that they consume, to help direct the ongoing growth of the Portland beer scene, and to think about what went into getting their beer to their glass." My hopes and dreams are for more people to add their thoughts to this beer blog and keep the dream of better, fresher, beer to all! I raise my glass to all of you! Cheers! Dave Dronkowski
posted by PDXBeer at 5:46 AM
3 Comments:
Cheers to your time in Steamboat Springs! I hope that Portland treats you as well.
http://steamboat-springs.blogspot.com
My husband may not agree with me, but I have to say that beer brought the two of us together. Having spent most of my adult life not appreciating the taste and sensation of a great amber or an interesting IPA, not to mention the company that goes with the beer, I met my husband about the same time I encountered beer and running and beer and running, etc, etc, etc. So those three- beer, running, and my love- are all intertwined to the point where I don't know which I love best, what I could do without, and why even try to give up any?
As for the beer, I have claimed a good amber (McTarnahans, Alaskan, Full Sail) as my favorites, but after serving at the Oregon Brewers' Fest on the waterfront last summer, I am intrigued by IPA's. We served Racer X double IPA from Bear Republic Brewery in Healdsburg, California. I wondered at the crowds of people waiting in line for our beer! After tasting it, I figured it out. It wasn't just that it was a big beer, but the taste was complicated and habit-forming.
All in all, I now consider myself somewhat of a beer snob, running more slowly these days, but in love with the same old guy.
Liz Ryan
Good God Dave,
Little did we know that right here in the City of Portland we have what can only be assumed to be a veritable BEER GOD!!!!
My your vast knowledge of this hop-based beverage and your astounding marketing abilities serve to enlight all those in these beer communities who quaff this liquid ambrosia daily!
God live alcohol!!!
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