Beer Today celebrates its 20th anniversary in October 2024. Over those years the beer landscape has changed a lot. Brewers, beer, and venues have come and gone.
I describe Beer Today often as a hobby which got out of hand. It started in 2004 when I was full-time employed at a regional newspaper group as a sub-editor. Gradually it has built into the massive site it is today.
The premise is very simple. Online, daily news updates, seven days a week. Plus a beer and pub guide, currently under construction, and a huge links directory (for which listings are free). Unique daily users number around 10,000.
In recent years, I’ve coupled running the site with running a community magazine in nearby St Ives, but also working on the bar at The Star Inn, Crowlas, brewpub of the multi-award-winning Penzance Brewing Co.
The pub was owned by my mate and brewing legend Pete Elvin. “Let me know if you ever get stuck for staff,” I told him ages ago. In 2017, I started on the bar and gradually learnt the ropes of what goes on to keep a pub running. Alas, Pete developed bowel cancer and died on Christmas Eve last year. The pub is now closed, but opening again soon. I doubt I’ll be back behind the bar, though — that’s a young person’s game.
So Beer Today needs to have some income to keep going. I could cover the site in advertising, but no-one wants that, so I’m hoping you can support my Patreon scheme.
Readers can sign up free for updates, or pledge as little as £1.50 a month. Commercial supporters can:
- Promote their beer and merchandise on Beer Today.
- Promote competitions and offers via Beer Today and its social media.
- Have ‘advertorial’ features on Beer Today.
- Get priority use of press releases on Beer Today.
- Get regular priority sharing of social media content across Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Threads.
If you can help to keep Beer Today going, and promoting our great independent brewers and venues, please sign up here.
Thanks,
Darren
