About Charlie the Beer Guy
I’m a long-standing beer enthusiast, who’s ridden the waves of the craft beer revolution out of the dim watery megabrews of my young adulthood. I tasted my first homebrew in the late 1980’s, and was from that time forward captivated by the concept of engineering my own buzz. Many, many dozens of batches of homebrew followed, from the expected (stouts, hefeweizens, IPA’s) to the experimental (Crunch Berry Ale–with real crunch berries!).
My homebrewing endeavors reached their pinnacle at the dawn of the current decade, when I was awarded the Silver Medal in the “stout” category at the Arizona Homebrewer’s Association’s Octoberfest competition in 2000. It was my first and only foray into competitive brewing.
As a by-product of all that brewing, I’ve developed a deep appreciation for beer in all its manifestations. I’ve tasted the best I could find all over the world, wherever fortune would take me, including brews from (and consumed in) California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. There’s lots of terrific beer I’ve enjoyed from other places as well, and one of many reasons to keep living is the anticipation of all those great beers I haven’t yet tried.
