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As some of you will have seen last week, this blog (well, our beer related twitter account) has been nominated for a little award. The Golden Twits are an “award scheme that aims to celebrate the best in Twittering” and are organised by The Drum magazine (a news mag all about marketing, design and media). The standards are high in the awards and in our categories we are up against the likes of fellow twits from 4Homes, White & Mackay, Ogilvy, Cisco and the Guardian.

This makes us very proud, as we only started writing about beer five months ago.

For those of you that don’t know lots about us, I started this blog in May with Alan. It was a rainy summer night and Alan and I were watching series 4 (I think) of the West Wing… I was itching to write something, thinking about some sort of digital marketing blog (which also happened) and Alan had been penning for quite some time the first chapter of a book about the similarities between some modern musician and an equally hedonistic renaissance artist (best to ask him about that!). The West Wing was a catalyst for much debate and true to form, we started discussing how we could put our pen hands to good use. I think it was the bottle of Old Hooky in front us that sparked the idea of turning our attentions to beer, after all we’d single handedly kept Old Hooky and St Peter’s Organic Ale in stock at our local ASDA for about 18 months by this point.

A few hours later and our first incarnation on WordPress was up and running and there it sat for a few weeks whilst we fine tuned some articles and formulated a plan of action. Over the coming weeks a Twitter account popped up and we got talking to beer bloggers and beer lovers, many of who inspired us to take the blog to the next level, buying ‘proper’ hosting and getting Sam involved, who with his home brew experience, Yorkshire charm (and Yorkshire no-nonsense frugality) has added to our writing team.

Only a handful of months later we are now listed in the Top 20 Wikio Blogs for Wine & Beer, have a dedicated following of over 1,000 tweeps and have joined the British Guild of Beer Writers, all of which makes us puff our chests out in pride and smile very widely indeed.

Which brings us up to date, and finding out last week about our nomination. And of course, asking all our friends and followers to vote for us too! Voting is open at the Golden Twits until Tuesday 17^th November (tomorrow!), so if you like our blog, our tweets, Alan, Sam and I will be eternally grateful if you could vote for our little blog’s twitter account. Do it for us, and do it for the beer!

A massive thank you to everyone who reads the blog, follows us on twitter and has helped to make the first 6 months of our existence so rewarding. The beer community rocks!

Thanks, The Real Ale Reviews team.

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