Celebrate Oregon Beer Website Now Live--How You Can Help
This morning, we pushed the “publish” button on our website for Celebrate Oregon Beer. Celebrate Oregon Beer is a new nonprofit I helped found, with a mission to establish Oregon’s reputation as one of the world’s premier beer regions. Like those other regions, Oregon has all the features of rich beer culture—hop and barley fields, hop breeding and research centers, malthouses, native hop varieties, native beer styles, a brewing archive, hundreds of breweries, and the kind of culture that means you can find a local beer in every bowling alley, dive bar, upscale restaurant, and gas station in the state.
The website is the first step in making this case. On it you’ll find information about the state’s brewing heritage, breweries (including region by region travel guides), the state’s unique hop region and characteristic varieties, and info about our amazing fresh hop beer and season. We have a searchable, sortable database of all Oregon’s breweries and taprooms (though the full information for each brewery is not fully completed) as well as a map so you’re never far away from a tasty pint. You can also find information about the nonprofit and all our our initial Founders Circle supporters who helped make it all happen. I invite—nay, encourage—you to go have a look. I think the site looks fantastic and will help highlight what makes Oregon special.
Since we’re just getting started, we can use your help, so read on.
Want to help elevate Oregon’s visibility? Here’s how you can help:
Visit the website and look around. If you like what you see, share a link with your friends and/or post a link on social media. Incoming links optimize those search algorithms so people can find it.
Everyone at all interested in Oregon beer and hops should sign up for the regular (free!) newsletter. It will be rich with news, upcoming events, and contain links to new content on the website. At the beginning, the newsletter will go out every other week. We will never share your emails with anyone else nor use them for commercial purposes. It will keep you up to date all everything happening in Oregon beer.
If you own an Oregon brewery and haven’t completed your directory information, do so! You should have an email with a link to your brewery’s interface, and if you don’t, contact me and I’ll re-send it. We want to list any company with a brewery operating in Oregon, and there’s no cost.
Brewery owners, mention Celebrate Oregon Beer on social media. If you like any of the content there, link to it—that helps build SEO.
Finally, we just launched the site today, and while we’ve tried to make it bug-free, the sheer number of devices, operating systems, and browsers inevitably hides a bug or two. Contact me if you see a bug and we’ll fix it.
This is only the first phase in our work, but it’s an exciting one that we’re very pleased with. Go have a look!