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Beer Travelers FAQ

All Beer Travelers projects are created and maintained by Stan Hieronymus and Daria Labinsky, free-lance writers who brew beer, drink beer and write about beer together. First, to answer the question we are asked most often: yes, we are married.

On Dec 2, 1996 we added another Beer Traveler to the family when Sierra Katharine was born. Like any parents we'd be proud to show you a few pictures.

Our most recent book, The Brewpub Cookbook, is now available from Time-Life books. If you'd like more information about the book or want to purchase an autographed copy write us at [email protected].

We are the travel editors for All About Beer. We also collect and write many of the news items for both the magazine and the online publication.

Our stories, written together and individually, have appeared in American Brewer, BeeR the Magazine, BREW!, BrewPub, Brew Your Own, Zymurgy, Men's Journal and several "brewspapers." Our stories about beer have also appeared in newspapers across the country.

We also publish a monthly ink-and-paper newsletter, simply called Beer Travelers. It includes some of the same information that appears here, but also words unique to the newsletter. A one-year subscription is $15 for 12 eight-page newsletters (each one jammed with information). If you want to see what a copy looks like, send $2.50 to Beer Travelers, P.O. Box 187, Washington, Ill. 61571.

We not only like to drink beer, but we think it's worth writing about as journalists, which is what we've been most of our working lives. Therefore, we pay for our own beer when we visit bars, so when you read that we like a particular place or a particular beer, remember that we -- like you -- have plunked down our hard-earned dollars for the pleasure.

Now, a little more about us: Before turning our attention to assembling a comprehensive guide to places in the United States serving flavorful beer, we compiled and published the most extensive guide to music festivals available in North America. We favor rock (whatever that might be), all sorts of jazz, blues, folk and singer-songwriters we call country, many of whom come from Texas (such as Robert Earl Keen, Joe Ely, Nanci Griffith, Jo Carol Pierce, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Guy Clark).

We live in the woods outside a small town near Peoria, IL. We can get in our truck at dawn and be in New York City, New Orleans or Denver before midnight ... unless we stop for a beer along the way.