In August of 2004, I joined the Clipper City Brewing Company as a Territory Manager for the District of Columbia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

But since that point, my territory has increased dramatically to include all of Virginia, and then to include North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina, as each of those states allowed beers of greater than 5.9% alcohol to be imported.

Since that point, Clipper City has itself changed. Some of its beers are now organic. Some of its beers have defined new craft styles. Its roster of beer has grown from nine beers to 16, its basket of brewing medals brimming. And the cask ale! Ahh!

In 2004, Clipper City was a dynamic Baltimore, Maryland brewery. Today, Clipper City is truly an East Coast brewery, its beers sold and respected in 20 states along the East Coast and into the Midwest.

Since that point, it's been an incredible voyage. I've met so many fascinating and beery folk: brewers, salespeople, wholesalers, beer shop owners and managers, beer lovers, and, in fact fascinating people of all sorts throughout the South.

That I have been part of that voyage has been my privilege. It has been exciting; it has been frustrating; but it has never been boring.

I sincerely thank Hugh Sisson, Ernesto Igot, Pat Helsel, and everyone then and now at the Clipper City Brewing Company for having included me in their wonderful voyage of good beer.

But now, I sail forth. As of 1 August 2008, I will leave the employ of Clipper City Brewing Company.

This website and its companion blog --YoursForGood Fermentables.com-- will continue, and with honest effort, improve, and even gain new perspectives. Look for a little more on the fermented fruit and the distilled spirits. To all my readers, and to those who have offered praise, and to those who have pointed out my factual errors: I thank you.

Beer, gentlefolk, beer: that is indeed why I'm here.

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