The last year and a half has been a whirlwind. I'm so fucking proud of the work we're doing.

I suspect that quite a few people reading this went to Brick Store's 20th anniversary party yesterday. The fam and I showed up early, tried some beers, tried to avoid the mud, and then got outta there before it got too hectic. And sheesh, it's a special kinda bar that does 20 one-off beer collaborations with the likes of Sierra Nevada, Creature Comforts, Allagash, St. Bernardus, and Mitch Steele . I love that BSP has been my local for 12 years and counting now.Another thing I love is Good Beer Hunting. As a loyal Brewsletter subscriber, you've probably noticed that most of my freelance time is going to GBH these days. I started doing some occasional editing for the site in late 2015 when its founder, Michael Kiser, got tired of me emailing him typos. Things got a little more serious in 2016, when he handed over the Editorial Director reins and we really started going for it. We've brought on new and exciting voices, our traffic has gone through the roof, we've published long and gorgeous features, and we've broken a bunch of news.But great work costs money, and GBH has largely been funded out of pocket by Kiser, along with revenue from our online shop. So we started a Patreon for the folks we're calling our Fervent Few . We've been thrilled by the initial response, but we need to keep growing it if we're going to make the editorial side of GBH break even one day.We're not interested in conventional advertising, because we don't wanna crank out weak content around the clock solely for clicks and pageviews. So while we actively explore other unconventional sponsorship models that will help fund GBH's future, we're turning to our fans and friends to make this thing sustainable. After all, we're making what we think is the most critical, creative, and curious site in beer. That's exciting! But we plan to keep paying people well and publishing more stuff going forward. It's an ambitious and kind of scary plan, to be perfectly honest with you.What I'm asking today is for you to take a look at our Patreon and see if subscribing makes sense for you. I'll probably do a fundraising drive like this about once a year, otherwise sticking to the usual Georgia-centric links and commentary. But know that even a tiny contribution makes a big difference to a publication of our size. If everyone who receives The Georgia Brewsletter pledged $1 to our Patreon, that would fully pay for one of our features—and its photos—every month. That's huge!I think we do the best beer coverage of any publication in the whole goddamn world, and that includes covering breweries and news all over that world, from Belgium to Iceland to the Czech Republic to Ireland. But because GBH hired some dork from Atlanta as its editor, it also means some truly substantive pieces about Georgia beer. We've written about how Wrecking Bar is pushing things forward , what it means for the Peach State when beer makers like Monday Night Wild Heaven , and Creature Comforts open new facilities, we went super deep on Georgia's push for better beer laws , we told the strange story of a funny little yellow can called Emergency Drinking Beer , we talked to Mitch Steele about his new endeavor , and, hell, our best-read piece of all time was a recent op-ed by Creature CEO Chris Herron All of which is to say: when you contribute to the GBH Patreon , you're making sure Georgia beer gets the coverage it deserves. I hope you'll consider it. Thanks for your time.talk soon,Austin