Easy cowboy, it’s just a mock-up. We get our first order of swag sometime next week. I ordered some simple ergo aluminum bottle openers with an etched logo. I think glassware and t-shirts will follow. Watch for the openers at beer events. Yes, they’ll be free.

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…all of our ad space, anyway. We have eight Minnesota advertisers booked through January for the top banner placement on the site. Of course I know there’s still some interest out there, so I’m now looking at getting rid of the Google ad and making the space available to advertisers. The ad’s smaller, so it’ll [...]

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I’ve been selling a little advertising on MNBeer.com and have decided that it’s time to get my hands on some MNBeer.com swag. So… (if you care, of course) what would you prefer? T-Shirts, pint glasses, something else?

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We interrupt the normal flow of beer to bring you this quick message…  We’ve begun to roll out our new advertising plan. If you own or manage a beer-related establishment (or something else that might spark the curiosity of MNBeer.com readers) and are interested in advertising on the site, drop me a line at ryan [...]

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Sorry for the mess. I have almost everything ready… I’ve been working with a test site for far too long. So tonight my plan is to finish this before I fall asleep. Wish me luck! I have a Bitter Brewer beside me to keep me company. (No, not the guy, the beer…)

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Not to brag too much, but I was just looking at our stats and we’re averaging nearly 1800 unique visitors per day. Not hits, not files, not pages, but visitors. Nearly 510,000 visitors or 2.8 million hits in the past year. Pretty impressive for a local beer site!

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…thanks for playing along at home. Winners have been notified by e-mail and I’ll have shirts processed as soon as I receive mailing addresses.
Cheers!

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Long story short, Dave tipped me off to a site that was automatically pulling posts from both MNBeer.com and RealBeer.com’s “Beer Therapy” blog. I heard back from the owner of the site and the content has been removed. Apparently this “feature” was pre-loaded into Wordpress by a previous owner of the site.  I’m glad that [...]

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Test…
We can’t do this for everyone who would possibly want Winterfest tickets, but Trav is a long-time reader and an all-around good guy, so if you can, hook him up…
I’m not nervous yet, but its only a week away now and I need 2 tickets. Or one ticket. Whatever I can get. Looks like i [...]

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Hey! We’re gathering some extremely exciting (riiiight…) demographic information for MNBeer.com to help us woo a few new advertisers. So… if you can fill out this short survey, we’d really appreciate it. If you leave your e-mail address and t-shirt size, we’ll put you in a drawing for one of our swell MNBeer.com t-shirts.  Of [...]

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“Price for hops used to make beer is going up, and you know what that means” by Mark Neuzil
Mark was nice enough to call upon me as well as Dustin from Brau Brothers and Peter Ausenhus from Worth Brewing in Iowa.

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Yup. Watch our egos soar… We were chosen as part of Metro Magazine’s “Best Homegrown Blogs” in the January issue.
They’ve also got a nice little feature in their restaurant guide called “Beer-Drinking Adventures” that gives a nod to Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, Great Waters Brewing Company, Acadia Cafe, Barley John’s Brewpub and Fitger’s Brewhouse. Check [...]

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As I sit here with a tulip of tasty local brew on my left, a small dog curled into a ball on my right and a Powerbook in front of me, I can’t help but ponder snow… er… 2007 and the great beer, great people and great times. For your pleasure, a quick rundown…
January:
I made [...]

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I just received a copy of the January issue of Mpls. St. Paul magazine at work and was pleasantly surprised to see MNBeer listed in their article, “wild weird wacky @ www” by Matt Smith.
For people who are very serious about their beer, this is pretty much a one-stop local microbrew shop for news, events [...]

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In case you missed Sunday’s Star Tribune Arts section while you were busy with all your holiday goings-on, Chris Riemenschneider gave MNBeer a nice plug. I might not have noticed it however someone kindly inserted a picture of a beer being poured into a mug. Trust a picture of beer to catch my [...]

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