2022 Beer Goals for Better Beer Advocacy

My goal in 2022 is to increase my financial support of the many local craft breweries in my area.

Once I obtained my second vaccine shot (late spring 2021) I started visiting the local brewery taprooms with the hope that my financial support will keep them in business. I have no idea what impacts this latest Omicron spike will have over the next month(s) but as long as the taprooms remain open I will be going and buying beer. I really hope that all of the local craft breweries that survived the last 20+ months of turmoil will continue to survive.

Cheers!

 

Will continue to order NA beers from my two supermarkets. All in all they have around 100 different, getting in new in a maybe suitable pace. To my delight a domestic actor has started to deliver mixed NA cases of different styles/countries. May try that too, but I'd prefer to choose every beer myself.

 

My beer goals for 2022 remain pretty much as they have for the last 10 years:

• Complete the beer styles list: Which I completed the current version of 114 in 2021. Now it's about time the list is revised.
• Complete the 51 US states and DC: I'm currently at 47, needing DC, North and South Dakota, and West Virginia.
• There are several top lists I've been working on: (recent changes caused a big hit)
  • Beers of Fame: currently completed 211
  • American Imperial Stouts: currently completed 38 (53 pre-update)
  • Russian Imperial Stouts: currently completed 33 (48 pre-update)
  • Milk/Sweet Stouts: currently completed 30 (37 pre-update)
  • Oatmeal Stouts: currently completed 30 (34 pre-update)
  • Home State = Indiana: currently completed 55 (66 pre-update)
  • Top 250: currently completed 71 (87 pre-update)
• As far as true advocacy: Am making concerted effort to contribute to the site as far as reviewing more, pictures, new beers, brewery info, etc. (Ultimately: personal goal is to reach Poo Bah status): currently at 1270 Karma points (need 230 more) and contributing reviews, pics, places, beers, etc. will get me there, more importantly (I feel) is just the contribution and giving back to the site.

For me, it's not about just being a ticker, it's just as much about wanting to experience the best there is, and view ticking as achieving that goal. Also, for me, it's not so much the end goal but the journey.

Have a great 2022 and stay safe

Hey Suz

 

Supporting local breweries has been one of my goals too. I really didn't shut things down because of the pandemic, but it was curbside pick-up when the places were closed.

Besides supporting the dozen or so breweries within 25 miles of me, I like to take off on extended pub crawls, and I am starting to think about one thru the South and up the East Coast this summer so that I can get further along with my goal to drink a beer while in each state. I can easily knock off 5 needed ticks with this summer trip, then I only have AK and HI left to visit.

 

Drink more beer. Try to review more this year. Possibly get back in the habit of using proper glassware.

 

Enjoy the beers I have available to me and not regret the ones that are not available to me.

 

My goal is to visit more local breweries this year. I feel like, over the last couple of years (dating before the pandemic), my breweries visited list hasn't really grown all that much. It continues to be hard given the ongoing pandemic, but I think that most everything else in my life has settled down to the point where I can make more excursions. This is in addition to supporting my local favorites.

I reviewed just shy of 300 beers last year and I'm not looking to touch that this year. Although I will continue to review as many beers as I have, not getting close to that will be a result of me taking better care of myself.

 

Going dry from mid-Feb to mid-March (ends right before St Patrick's), afterwards will be drinking plenty of Guinness for about a week before moving on to Spring goals:

Fox Farm visit
Another Tree House visit (went in mid-December)
Finally getting to Trillium to check out new space
Hanging out in the taprrom at Long Live (my favorite RI brewery)

Moving on the lighter stuff (lagers mainly) in the summer. Plenty of good lagers produced locally.

Like others, trying to keep it local most of the time.

 

Let's see...I already give a moderate amount of business to local brewpubs and purveyors of fine quality imported beverages on tap, frequent several non-chain bottle shops that do pretty well on stock turnover, and do homework ahead of any road trips to plan out specific brewery stops in addition to whatever other goal the trip involves. So mine would be keep on keepin' on?

 

Wow I’m pretty impressed with everyone’s goals. Not even close to being able to complete most of those

for myself, it’s simple. 1)Review more. Ive been doing ratings since I joined but have only been doing reviews for about a year now. Its been a lot of fun writing reviews of beers i rated years ago and of course all the new beers also. 2) keep posting in the cellaring and beer and food threads. Really love those communities

 

My goal is to start to review more beer, Ive been having too much fun @ the virtual bar (WBAYDN?). And just to explore more of what this site has to offer.

 

In addition to completing (or at least working on) top 250 and other lists, I want to branch out and visit more breweries around me. It's so easy for me to get stuck in a rut of just going to Tree House and getting a bunch of beer to last me weeks instead of exploring different options. I know, first world problems, and I love TH, but it's time to explore what else MA and other states around have to offer

 

To borrow the tag line from Nike: Just Do It!



And maybe bring a friend along?

Cheers!

 

10K is a massive milestone my friend. I'm gonna hit 1K around April and I have quite a big beer planned for it