At Bruisin’ Ales, we’re a month behind on the blog and we apologize. We’ve just been so busy popping the caps and corks around here. So, for our first post in the blogosphere, let’s celebrate all the people who have made this happen.

A hearty thanks to Pop The Cap. Without you, we would not be here. Pop The Cap v.2 has been born and we encourage everyone in the North Carolina Beerdom to get involved—whether a small donation, signing up for the newsletter, attending an event. 

Thank you, family—for your support and invaluable opinions over the past year, through research and numbers and business plans and development. Thank you, friends—for your encouragement and always asking how things were going and understanding if we fell asleep while you were visiting. Special thanks to Joe, Jason, Terri, Josh and Megan for your manual labor contributions. Thanks to Christa for editing the site and being the very first to click through the entire beer line-up. Thank you, LP—my techie wonder and incredible friend—for your amazing patience and generosity. (And for making enough sense of my writing to create the website.)

… And a blog is born …