About Beer Street Journal

Here’s the honest version.

I had a corporate job and a 5 o’clock drinking habit, back when “craft beer” still needed explaining to most people. I would leave work, and head to Taco Mac, a southeastern sports/beer bar chain with 100 taps. That was the training grounds. Right before I got laid off, I’d started a local beer website about beers, releases, news etc. It had a different name then. As it grew, I rebranded it and turned it into a national presence you know now as Beer Street Journal.

That was almost 18 years ago. Since then I’ve chased drinks across four continents and more than 2,000 breweries, plus the wineries, distilleries, and dive bars in between, all the while BSJ grew into one of the most-read beer publications online, somehow landing in front of readers in over 200 countries.

Then it outgrew the beer. These days it’s about everything around the glass: the cocktails, wine, food and travel –  the dive bars I can never walk past, the cities the road keeps handing me, live music, and amazing food all over the world. The rule is simple — if you can drink in it, at it, or around it, I’m covering it.

It’s all shot and written by me, Reid Ramsay. One glass, one frame at a time.

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