I'm Reuben Gray and I'm a beer writer who loves beer with a passion. I love beer so much so that as well as drink it and write about it, I also brew it and perhaps one day would love to do so for a living.
When I travel, I travel with beer in mind. My destinations always start with me finding out where the good beer is and then figuring out how to get there before I pick a hotel.
I started this blog at the end of 2008 with my first post in January 2009. I had recently met the new husband of my wife's friend from Prague. She was American like my wife and they worked together for the year my wife had spent there. Al was his name and it turned out he wrote about beer on his blog called Fuggled. I had been thinking about brewing beer for a while and Al was considering the same so when I got back from the US that Christmas I started this blog with details of my first home brewed beer followed by my trip to Alabama and New Orleans and then it continued on from there.
My original reasons for the blog were personal. It was a personal log of my brewing and drinking. It has since become more than that and I use my blog like a beer evangelist by spreading the good word about beer.
On July 1st 2010, my group of homebrewing beer lovers from irishcraftbrewer.com changed to become Beoir. No longer just people who love beer and brew their own beer, we are now a non profit consumer group with the goal of promoting craft or micro brewed beer in Ireland. While we do concentrate on Irish breweries, we are all about good beer in general and fully support foreign beer. Essentially we are all about more choice, driven by the fact that almost every pub in Ireland sells the same beer, the usual suspects as I call them.
My purpose now is to write about the positive aspects of beer which far outweigh the negative and usually misleading and false bad press that beer is getting from the media these days,
I hope you enjoy reading my articles and please feel free to comment both negative and positive or to contact me via email, twitter or facebook.
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Reuben Gray
Twitter: @taleofale
Email: reuben@taleofale.com
