BeerCast News

Thanks to everybody who has been in contact with us here at the BeerCast, we love receiving emails and comments. As we’ve been going for almost seven months it’s probably time for a bit of housekeeping and site news, in between the podcast posts and other beer news (and we’re hoping to record our German BeerCast sometime this week).

We’re now well over 1000 hits and climbing – sadly we didn’t have a prize for our 1000th guest, but the person at Edinburgh Uni who found us by Googling for ‘Bar with Canadian Beer Edinburgh’ hopefully found what he/she wanted. Although I can’t think of any off the top of my head. Hopefully they read our Edinburgh pub guide and ended up somewhere cosy and welcoming. And speaking of which, we’re thinking of other cities for pub guides, so watch this space.

Our BeerCast panel may be expanding in the near future, so keep listening for new podcast guests and bloggers. We’ve now covered 26 beers in all, ranging from the top ranked Coniston Bluebird and Daleside IPA (both scoring 80%), to the outstandingly awful Rodenbach Grand Cru (3%). Panellist Grooben has volunteered to test this independently and report back, just to see if the podcasters sampled one that was off. Stay tuned for that. We’re also amazed at our position on iTunes (we were the 8th most popular beer podcast at one point), given that we’ve only put out seven episodes that’s fantastic. Don’t forget to leave us a comment on our iTunes page.

Also we’re in the process of moving things to a new domain – we’ve splashed out on a proper URL (www.thebeercast.com), so once we’ve got a design up and running (expect an email Edd!) we’ll pull ourselves away from the good people at Blogger and go it alone. For those of you into social networking – and let’s face it, who isn’t? – you can also find the BeerCast on MySpace and Facebook. Come and say hi, add us as a friend, leave us filthy comments. It’s all part of the fun.

Anyway, we’ll be back on the beer soon, thanks again for listening/reading the BeerCast, and special thanks to all the brewers who have emailed us about our tasting sessions. If any others have ideas about what beers we should try, or suggestions for episodes or themes, please get in touch via the email address. Cheers!

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