Greg Emmanuel

Nothing beats hearing about a cool, new thing — a band, designer, TV show…you name it. But for immediate gratification, few recs get me as excited as a great beer. (This is me, insert your own poison here.) Back in the early days of the craft beer explosion, I met a friend of a friend online who found my blog (now I’m really dating myself), and we began to email back and forth about our favorite beers. I was in New York and he lived in Ohio, but it might as well have been Venus and Mars. To s…