Welcome to the all new GreatBrewers.com!

With its 2009 relaunch, GreatBrewers.com will take an ambitious new step toward uniting the beer community. Created by L. Knife & Son, the goal of GreatBrewers.com is to bridge the gap between the world's great brewers and the consumers who enjoy their products, with a paramount focus on education. Through direct partnerships with world class beer wholesalers across the country and hundreds of exceptional breweries around the globe, the new GreatBrewers.com is making it easier than ever for beer fans to discover, learn about, and locate great beer.

To fully customize your experience on GreatBrewers.com around your local neighborhood offerings, we highly recommend that you completely fill in your profile page. Please login first, then Edit My Profile.

GreatBrewers.com distinguishes itself by providing brewers with a centralized forum to share the complete story behind their breweries, and each of their beers, with the world. Further, due to its direct link with the databases of America's leading beer distributors, GreatBrewers.com offers the most accurate and updated information available on where to find specific beers. For the first time ever, beer fans can be perpetually updated on where their favorite beers are available, what beers their favorite brewers are producing, and what beers their favorite local bars, restaurants, and stores currently offer.

What you'll find on the new GreatBrewers.com:

• Thorough product descriptions and food pairings for more than 2,000 beers
• The full story, including photos and videos, behind more than 400 breweries
• A beer map centered on your location, that shows you the 100 closest bars, restaurants, and stores where you can buy great beer, and links you to the current beer offerings at each place
• Access to write comments on local beer retailers and to recommend new beers for them to carry
• The ability to write tasting notes, and to manage your favorite brewers, beers, and places within your "My Account" page
• The official GBT, the web's most comprehensive beer test
• A product catalog that lets you browse beer by brand, style, origin, and other categories
• An events calendar to keep you informed of upcoming beer dinners, festivals, and sampling opportunities
• A careers page, your best link to a great job in an exciting industry
• Beer news, forums, blogs and tasting notes on many beers
• A wealth of beer educational information

At present, there are 24 distributor members of the Great Brewers Alliance, providing continually updated information to help you discover the great beers that are available throughout Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Wisconsin, and Virginia. In the coming months, as distributors in other states join the Alliance, GreatBrewers.com will remain committed to offering location-specific information to enhance the lives of beer lovers from coast to coast.

Over the past three years, we have worked closely with numerous brewers, distributors, retailers, and passionate beer drinkers, we have heard your requests, and we hope that we have delivered in providing a great new resource to maximize your enjoyment of the world's greatest libation. We invite you to register today, and we welcome you to the exciting new Great Brewers community!

Special thanks to:

• Brandon Bergren, Location Module and Gmap Module Maintainer (also known as bdragon).
• Earl Miles, Panels Module and Views Module Maintainer (also known as merlinofchaos).
• Matt Butcher, Quiz Module Maintainer (also known as mbutcher).

Cheers,

The GreatBrewers.com Team
Eric McKay, Creator
Jingsheng Wang, Reverse Engineer
Thomas Byrne, Graphic Designer