Craft Brewer's Conference 2013

For those of you who don't know, I have a pretty cool job. I am a beer buyer for a large US alcohol retailer. Being a beer buyer is harder than it sounds, but there are certainly perks to the job :)

I spent this entire week meeting with different breweries from across the US at the Craft Brewers Conference in Washington, DC. My boss and I had a PACKED schedule Monday-Thursday holding meetings with almost 40 different breweries. We were given lots of free beer, made some exciting new relationships & had a great time making business deals with our brewery partners.

Here's a list of all the breweries we met with this week:

21st Amendment	Weyerbacher	Terrapin
The Bruery	RJ Rockers	Sierra Nevada
Flying Dog	Saranac	Laughing Dog
Ommegang	Barrel Trolley	Avery
Troegs	New Belgium	Great Lakes
Rogue	Dogfish Head	Sweetwater
Yards	Redhook	Abita
Pike	Widmer	Harpoon
Stone	Global Beer Network	Florida Beer Company
Brooklyn	Gambrinus	Wetten Importers
SKA	Left Hand	Ballast Point
Bells	Odell	Allagash
Lagunitas	Deschutes

It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it :)

And here is a picture of me from last night… finishing the week off at Galaxy Hut in Clarendon. Doing, what else? Drinking a brew!