Cali Beercation, Day 3 – The Redwoods & Anderson Valley

Day 3 was our day with the most driving and the least number of stops. But Ben and I agreed that it was our favorite day out of the whole trip! We stayed in Oregon the night before and drove into California. Our main mission for the day was to drive on Avenue of the […]

Beercation, Day 2 – Tillamook, OR: De Garde & More

We started day 2 of our beercation by driving west from Portland toward Tillamook. Our taste buds had been begging us to visit De Garde Brewing, and we were only an hour and a half away from there. So we mapped out a few other spots near De Garde and set out to explore for […]

Bullets2Bandages Bottle Openers

There’s one thing I’ve been passionate about long before beer came into my life. (Don’t worry; we’re still going to be talking beer here!) I’ve always had a great love and respect for our nation’s military veterans. Both of my grandfathers were in the Navy, and at one point in my life, I actually entertained […]

Happy New Beer! – Janee’s 2015 “Year In Beer”

It’s that time again. Another year has come and gone! What a great year it was! Let’s check it out! I set a goal last year to become a Certified Cicerone by the end of this year… And I did it! (Just in case you didn’t hear. On my Twitter. Or on my Instagram. Or […]

Janee Farrar… Certified Cicerone®!

Merry Christmas to me! My goal for this year was to become a Certified Cicerone®, and I found out last night that I’ve joined the ranks! It had been about 5 and a half weeks since I had taken the test (around the same time frame when I found out my results last time!), so […]

In The Beer Business & The Importance of Telling My Story

With a blog title like “WeBeerlongTogether”, you had to have known that it was only a matter of time before I joined forces with beer in my career path, officially giving beer authority of most of my waking hours. (And we all know I dream about beer, too, so there’s really no escape.) It’s been […]

SAVOR 2015

SAVOR is a beer and food pairing event with a feel unlike anything else I’ve experienced in craft beer. This year and last, it was held in Washington D.C. at the National Building Museum. Ben and I attended last year, not knowing what to expect. We had an amazing time, so we naturally planned to […]

If At First You Don’t Succeed…

This is not a post I wanted to write. But this is my story. And as much as I’d love to, I can’t just skip over the bad parts. I failed my first attempt at the Certified Cicerone test. I went into it concerned that I hadn’t had enough time to study. I had a […]

One Should Always Be Drunk (How I Got A Job In Craft Beer)

“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.” Passionate people, no matter what their passion, are some of my favorite people in this world. At one point when I was younger, my passion was singing. I always had […]

The Certified Cicerone Test

A few days after taking the Certified Cicerone test, I still have no clue what just happened to me! They said they’ve recently been getting test results out around 4-6 weeks after the test. So I’m starting this horrible waiting game! I went from feeling confident while filling out the first 5-6 pages of the […]