Indiana Beer - Whence the future?

Blogs shouldn't talk about themselves. It's just boring. But every so often it's needed. In this case Indiana Beer has reached another crossroads and I've caused it - again (back in 2005 Matt Dunn and Mark Mahon took over while my wife and I took a year in Europe).

This time it's my liver. It isn't working as well as it should be. It's no fun beer blogging when you can't drink beer so I'll be, for all practical purposes, leaving at the end of the year.

We held the first-ever business meeting last night at the Black Swan and worked out some knots.
  • Cindy Modesitt, Greg Kitzmiller, Kathleen Slauzis, Jason Wilkerson, and Nathan Compton will be carrying on.
  • We want to do more interviews with brewers and proprietors.
  • Kathleen will be putting up the now-obligatory Facebook and Twitter companions.
  • We are very pleased with our owners, World Class Beverages, and actually want to work closer with them to pass on their news.
Not going away, just scaling back. See you later.
Bob.

Bob, Nathan, Kathleen, and Greg

9 comments:

Kathleen Slauzis said...

The five of us will definitely keep things going. Beer Musketeers!

Mike said...

Take care, Bob.

Kathleen Slauzis said...

Cavalier Distributors and GirlsPintOut send you well wishes Bob (Via Twitter) :)

Jim said...

Wishing you the best, Bob. Thanks for your contributions to the Indiana craft beer community.

Cory said...

I wish you the best of luck Bob.
I recall that after this European trip, you wrote an excellent multi-piece article (pre-blogspot integration). Do you (or does anyone) have a permalink to these articles?

Nathan Compton said...

We're only here because of what Bob started - and we'll be lucky if five of us can replace what he brought to the craft brewing community.

barb kehe said...

stay crazy bob...you will be missed...

Unknown said...

Corey,

The 2005 trip - surprisingly not completely out of date yet - is at
http://www.indianabeer.com/ostrander/

Everyone,

Thanks for the comments and emails.

Enjoy,
Bob

Tom H said...

Loved what you've done with this blog, Bob O, and I wish you and your liver all the best. I've enjoyed the fresh content from the new folks - I'm looking forward to seeing how things play out and to continuing to use the blog to pass time and stay informed!

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