-OUR UPCOMING- -BEER TRAVELS- February 2010
SF Beer Week May 2010 Chicago
June 2010
London & Germany July 2010
Portland, OR December 2010
Dublin & England April 2011
Australia
Beer Travel is Seeing the World One Pint at a Time...
Latest One Pint at a Time "Craft Beer Down Under Part I"
Merideth turned 40 in December and she didn't really embrace the milestone. Instead of making our normal holiday pilgrimage to Europe, we decided a trip to Australia was what Merideth needed to cure the turning 40 blues. This trip marked our first beer adventure outside of North America or Europe.
In two weeks of beer travel, we journeyed from Sydney to Melbourne and then back.
Naja's Place, Redondo Beach, CA [January 2010, beer & food] Located on Redondo Beach boardwalk, Naja's is a quinessental waterfront dive bar and we mean that in a good way. Laid back with a great beer selection, Naja's is one of those beer places where we could spend hours and hours with friends and beers.
Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel, Sydney, Australia [December 2009, beer, lodging & food] The Lordie is not on this list just because it is the first brewery we visited with the Nelson surname. Great pub with good food and beer plus accommodations make Sydney's oldest hotel a must stop.
We travel the world looking for the next great beer experience. While we do include visiting the sites and landmarks of the places we visit, finding that next great beer experience is the real focus of our travels. Visiting pubs,breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs; this is the essence of being a beer traveler.
The rewards of beer travel can vary; sometimes we are rewarded with a real turkey, but other times, the reward is magical. Most of the time, we enjoy a good pint of beer and hopefully some good craic.
We are not trying to tell you where to visit or what beers to drink; rather we hope to inspire you to look for your own beer adventures.
So, pour yourself a pint and enjoy your visit to our site.
Introducing beergeekTV beergeekTV is a natural extension of our enjoyment of beertravel and desire to tell people about travel and good beer. Visit the beergeekTV page to watch us travel, explore and enjoy good beer.
Who is thebeergeek.com?
thebeergeek.com is a collaboration between Chris Nelson and his wife, best friend and fellow beer lover Merideth Canham-Nelson. Their passion for beer is evidenced by the list of breweries visited.
The Year in Beer
In 2008, Chris and Merideth embarked on the Year in Beer, a beer geeks dream year of travel. Traveling to a major beer event or destination every month, their journeys took them to the beer capitals of North America and Europe. Whether at a pub, in a beer hall or at a festival, they enjoyed the local brew, culture and made many new friends.
Merideth Canham-Nelson’s appreciation of beer developed in 1992 while working at a multi-tap pub in Oakland. She wanted to be knowledgeable about the beer she was serving and the best way to do it was to visit the breweries themselves. Merideth and her husband Chris now have frequent adventures throughout North America and Europe discovering great beer and meeting interesting people. When she is not traveling, Merideth works as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Chris Nelson is a full-time house-husband with his own web design business whose life is focused around everything beer; a wardrobe filled with beer t-shirts; a home office dedicated to beer memorabilia and two dachshunds named Porter and Stout. In 2007, out of 7,800 applicants from 31 countries, he was a final four candidate for Four Points by Sheraton’s coveted position of Chief Beer Officer.
To learn more about us, visit the About Us section of the website.
