Allow me to introduce myself!

[LouieMacGoo]

With all that has been going on here over the last few days it just now occurred to me how many of you I don't know since I hadn't been on the Mr. Beer forum with any regularity since the beginning of 2013. So if I don't know you, you obviously don't know me! So here i goes!

I put this BeerBorg website together over a year ago to be able to have a place to chat in real time with other brewers from the forum. I started adding some reference information to the site and even added a "Social" Facebook type community to the website when Mr. Beer started deleting posts and blocking any reference about a new upstart competitor called BrewDemon. Unfortunately the software I used had a flaw that spammers took advantage of and ended up trashing beyond repair. So I rebuilt from the ashes just in time for the disaster that is the Mr. Beer community right now.

I started out brewing with Mr. Beer over a 1 -1/2 years ago and spent much of my time on the Mr. Beer Forum I have them to thank for getting me into this great hobby but I also recognized that they aren't the only game in town and there are a lot of other great options when it comes to brewing beer and enjoying the hobby. Hopefully this place will allow you all to learn and grow without any limitations!

If you haven't already check out the articles on the main part of the site and also the Brewers Resources section for some good information about brewing!

Oh one last thing!!!! THANK YOU for being a part of this community!

[Beer-lord]

No Louie, THANK YOU for letting US be part of THIS forum!

[Brewbirds]

Thanks for posting this. I just came over and all I knew about this site was that there would be posts about the Taproom which, as a newbie, I didn't get.
I never knew this was also a forum and, as most of the new folks, probably found the other forum because we got the MB as a gift.
I really didn't care for the "personality" of most of the other home brew forums on the web when I started doing searches about our new hobby. The former MB site was a totally pleasant experience for us as newbies.
I hope now that you have done all the work and we have now discovered your great efforts we will continue to commune here where a single entry level beer making brand name does not matter and we can just talk beer and help the new comers to the hobby.

Thank you again.

[jivex5k]

Yeah Louie, many thanks to you for putting your time and money into this community.
I already like it better than the old Mr. B forums, and we have a lot of old hats around which is awesome. (maybe soon THE hat will come too)
IDK...It just feels right, and I really want this place to succeed.

Also, don't know what it's worth but I program javascript and HTML professionally so if you run into technical problems I can offer whatever small amount of advice or knowledge I may have. You seem to have it under control though, forum looks and runs great.

[JimH]

Thank you Lou! I didn't benefit from you very much over on MB, we didn't overlap very much. But I was one of the early finders of the Taproom. It's been great. Chatting with some more advanced brewers over there gave me realtime learning and advanced my brewing rapidly! I went from 2 MB batches and a Brooklyn Brewshop AG kit to formulating my own recipes in less than 2 months! So, thanks Lou for setting up your site, and thank you for letting me be a part of it.

(Also, its pretty awesome that you started a thread for feedback. It must be a little bit of a pain to try and accommodate these requests, but it makes it feel like we are more than just simple members.)

[BrownstotheBone]

As others have said, "thank you". I pretty much told my story in my intro thread (newbie for a month and forum gets turned upside down)

That place was fantastic for new brewers like me that are lost and need to be turned in the right direction. But it was the people that made it so great.

Now that mass of people have been fractured by someone without a lick of business sense.(very sad really)

It is very reassuring for someone like me to know that there IS that place again.

[gwcr]

Thanks again Louie for all your hard work! This site has re-energized my brewing life!

[BlackDuck]

Yup....thank you Louie for doing this. You've really done an outstanding job with this

And if you ever make it back to Columbus, let me know. We'll head back to Hal and Al's for some good beer and the best vegetarian bratwurst.

[BrownstotheBone]

vegetarian bratwurst.

I'm not sure if that's a double negative or an Oxymoron.... ??

[jimjohson]

oxymoron

[BlackDuck]

vegetarian bratwurst.

I'm not sure if that's a double negative or an Oxymoron.... ??

I kid you guys not. Louie and I did a meet up with another guy that hasn't been on the forum for quite some time. We met at this place called Hal and Al's on the recommendation from the other guy.

Try to picture this....a vegetarian place, with a HUGE beer list in one of the worst sections of Columbus. I wasn't sure my tires were still going to be on my truck when I came back out. I was getting hungry so I ordered a vegetarian bratwurst. And believe it or not, it was pretty damn tasty. It was a weird place in a weird location.

[BrownstotheBone]

Thank you Jim.

(you see how fast your questions get answered over here?)

[BrownstotheBone]

vegetarian bratwurst.

I'm not sure if that's a double negative or an Oxymoron.... ??

I kid you guys not. Louie and I did a meet up with another guy that hasn't been on the forum for quite some time. We met at this place called Hal and Al's on the recommendation from the other guy.

Try to picture this....a vegetarian place, with a HUGE beer list in one of the worst sections of Columbus. I wasn't sure my tires were still going to be on my truck when I came back out. I was getting hungry so I ordered a vegetarian bratwurst. And believe it or not, it was pretty damn tasty. It was a weird place in a weird location.

Good beer will always mask inferior food.

[BlackDuck]

Check out the beer list fom this place. You'll need to scroll down for a while to see the whole thing.

http://www.halandals.com/drink

[jimjohson]

they got Little Kings