Terri (aka: Beer Molly)
Beer Molly, The Original Beer Pix Girl
I’m Molly and I love beer, particularly porters and stouts. The darker the better. (Among my favorites are Stone Smoked Porter and Black Butte Porter.) I’m always in search of great new beers and spend a lot of my time with my husband and beer drinking partner seeking out new brews and brew pubs.
A few years ago I got a cameraphone and discovered that I loved taking shots of my beers and sending them to my friends. So many shots in fact that my friends started begging me to stop sending them my pics. (Jealous, no doubt.) So I got myself a blog and now I share my beer pix with people who really appreciate them — other beer lovers. Sometimes I post pics directly from my phone, and other times I do it from my computer, but either way, there’s always lots of great beer involved.
If you’d like to share your own beer pix or suggestions for beer I should try, feel free to drop me a line at “beermolly (at) mybeerpix (dot) com”.
Sage (aka: Beer Sage)
Beer Sage, Beer Molly’s Keeper
I’m Sage, Molly’s husband and beer drinking partner (as well as the guy who fireman-carries her out of the pub now and then). Unlike Molly who likes a dark, smoky, chocolately porter or stout more than anything, I’m a total hophead. Given the choice between 30 and 130 IBUs, I’ll take the 130 every time. Among my favorites are Port Brewing’s Hop 15, Russian River’s Blind Pig, and Stone Brewing Company’s India Pale Ale, but I like to try just about anything that’ll give my tastebuds a challenge.
I’m not the camera-princess that Molly is, so you won’t see many pics from me. But as a beer-lover and longtime homebrewer you will get more details about the brews and where to find them than you will from my lovely wife.
If you’ve got comments about a post, suggestions for good beers or beer pubs to try, or just want to drop me a line, you can email me at beerbuddy (at) mybeerpix (dot) com.
Matt Dolman
Matt Dolman, Foreign Correspondent
Accountant by day and mad craft beer drinker by night (if you define “day” as 8a.m. to noon and “night” as the other 20 hours), Matt made his first appearance on our blog when he covered the Oregon Brewer’s Festival for us back in July.
A resident of Northern San Diego County and a frequent fixture at Stone Brewing Co., we often see Matt as he drops by The Lost Abbey for a quick pint when he’s on a “Home Depot run.” (Check him out at the end of The Lost Abbey’s GABF video to find out what that means.) Omnivorous when it comes to beer styles, you’re as likely to find him drinking a local double IPA as you are a rare Belgian Dubbel.
Matt fills our Foreign Correspondent slot because he likes to travel and drink. You’ll note that he’s very fond of pictures of himself.
You can email Matt at “matt (at) mybeerpix (dot) com.
Damian and Lona Mongomery
Damian and Lona Montgomery, East Coast Bureau Chiefs
Husband and wife team Damian and Lona are our newest contributors to the blog.
Up until a couple of weeks ago they used to live here in San Diego County. Damian worked at The Lost Abbey where he came to fame on the cover of Celebrator magazine as the well-dressed guy in the middle (leading many people to ask “Tomme Arthur is black?”). Lona is a powerful up and comer at Geico Insurance where she works with cavemen and lizards.
Lona recently received a promotion from the Big Lizard himself and the couple has relocated to Fredericksburg, Maryland where they now act as our official East Coast Bureau chiefs covering all the beer from Florida to Nova Scotia.
You’ll find their posts listed under “McNairs”. (If you want to know why, ask them. It’s a good story.)
They can be contacted at: damian-lona (at) mybeerpix (dot) com
Adam Tillotson
Adam Tillotson, Man About Town
You’ll recognize Adam in a number of our photos, but until recently he wasn’t able to contribute his own photos because he had an ancient mobile phone. But bow that he’s got a new cameraphone he’s a picture taking fool.
Located here in San Diego, by virtue of his job as an HVAC contractor (feel free to ask him about air conditioning) he gets to travel all over the county on jobs. Conveniently nearly all of these jobs are located near breweries/brewpubs/bars, so Adam often pops in to give us a visual update of what’s on tap in the region (and beyond when he travels).
For a guy that’s well over 6 feet tall, many find Adam’s fondness for tiny things (hats, glasses, dogs, etc.) interesting. But beer isn’t one of them. For him, the bigger the better. You’ll find him gravitating to beers like double IPAs and imperial stouts as well as a lot of barrel-aged rarities.
You can email Adam at: adam (at) mybeerpix (dot) com
September 5th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Hey you guys have a great blog. do you have any favorite pubs in NYC?
September 20th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Rather randomly found your blog, but found a picture of my wife and I at the Belgian Beer Party! (#23 with the Duvel shirts) See you soon, Patron Saints party or Brewer’s Guild fest perhaps?
October 30th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Can I beg you two to join my social network for beer drinkers. Its free. In it you can import a blog through into your personal profile. That way you can drive members of my community to your blog. It would be great to have such great bloggers as part of my community. The site is Democracysdrink.com
Cheers,
Rich
October 31st, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Great blog. I’m from Washington and have access to great beer here and in Oregon, but some of my favorites are from the San Diego area, so I’m envious of your proximity to great and rare brew!! Keep up the good work!! Interested in starting a trade pipeline?
October 31st, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Fitz — We’re often gifted with great beer (plus we know some people). Just let us know what San Diego brews you like and they’re yours!
December 4th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Sage and Molly, wish I could have seen you guys this weekend. Check out our site for our coverage and pics of The Strong Ale Festival.
http://thefullpint.com/
March 19th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Question about your Blog
Hello,
I am writing in the hopes of opening up a communication channel with your blog (if you are interested).
We are a blog and website that is frequently writing about topics that are beer and spirits related (usually from a label perspective).
We are always looking for interesting content/posts to mention and link to on our blog and website. As such, if you post something you feel is very unique/interesting on your blog, please let me know via return email.
We are happy to give it a mention on our blog and send a link to it your way.
We are serious about quality content and I think that our content generation is creative and high quality (ie. we don’t blogspam).
Here is a link to something that we did recently that has generated a lot of interested:
http://etiquettesystems.com/beer_labels.html
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Keith
keith.bradbury@etiquettesystems.com
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Hello,
I really dig your website.
There are not many crime novels based on beer, so I thought you might be interested in mine. It’s called Beer Money.
So what’s it about?
An Australian brewery executive has gone missing. Or has he? Joe Abbott is paid by the man’s wife with a beer-sodden cheque to find out the truth.
In doing so he locks horns with dodgy nightclub owners, a toupeed beer baron, and endless eccentrics – plus, of course, a wild pig – all in the twisted pursuit of a stash of missing money.
And he has time for a beer or ten along the way.
A link to the book can be found at:
http://www.zeus-publications.com/beer_money.htm
I am sure some of your readers would find the novel interesting. Incidentally, the Australian Beer and Brewer Magazine has given it the thumbs up!
Regards,
Matthew Freeman
August 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Enjoying the site! Living the SD Area beer experience through your pics! I’ll be living it for myself the 20th thru the 24th! Maybe our paths will cross!
Chad
September 18th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Hey lady!
I haven’t seen you guys at the Ritual in a long time. Don’t be scared! Adam’s Georgian Pecan Nut Brown is gonna on cask Thursday the 25th. Maybe you can come down this way? You can have the doxies on the patio, if they don’t bite
Staci
October 9th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I’m glad I’m finally RSSing your site, and its nice to see me and other San Diego Beer Geeks scattered throughout the pictures. Keep up the good work and I hope to see you both around and about.
PS Have a Blast at GABF, I’m jealous.
Jon
December 30th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Hey There!
I was googling the Bourbon County Stout from Goose Island for no apparent reason (other then I was drinking it and wanted to see what came up) and stumbled upon this site.
Looks cool!
I subscribed to the RSS via my email program. I’m always taking pics of my beer on my iPhone. The good stuff winds up on my Flickr or Twitpic.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?.....00&z=t
http://twitter.com/mikedashg