While many of my fellow beer lovers and bloggers enjoyed the revelries of GABF, I was driving down I95 to Boston, MA for a different kind of beer event. I had the occasion to meet several other craft beer enthusiasts at a beer “tweet up” – hosted by beer blogger, Josh who writes “Lost in the Beer Aisle.” For those not familiar with the term, a “tweet up” is where you meet people you’ve been talking to on twitter. And in my case, there are a lot of people that I’ve gotten to know online and wanted to meet in person (something I didn’t expect when joining the beer blogging world). I’ve been invited to these “beerups” before, but hadn’t been able to make my schedule fit. They told me in graduate school that it’s all about “networking” and until recently, I didn’t really know what that meant. [...Read more]