About Taplister.com: Taplister.com of Portland, OR was founded in February 2009 by tech and beer geeks, Kerry Finsand, Scott Wray, Ken Baer, and Kevin Scaldeferri. With the singular goal of creating a community resource that helps you find what craft beers are on tap in Portland, Oregon. Taplister.com has achieved this by creating the first live beer search engine using the popular social network Twitter and expanded it’s network to other cities now as well. Beer Fans can visit www.Taplister.com and search to see where their favorite beers are on tap in supported cities. Mobile users can download the free iPhone app called Beer Signal or use a mobile version of Taplister.com to search for their favorite beers. In addition Taplister.com has installed Pubcams at various venues that display a live feed of their tap boards on Taplister.com (a small camera icon next to the bar name will indicate this if so).

Meet the team!

Kerry Finsand

Kerry Finsand who is our (CBO) Chief Beer Officer, is a native Oregonian who resides in NE Portland with his wife, Josie. He spends his days working at GoSeeTell doing social media strategy for tourism and hospitality clients. Keeping up with the new bars and brewpubs opening in the area, Kerry enjoys sharing his discoveries of some of the best watering holes in town with his friends. A few years back he started attending many of the local beer festivals and liked what he saw and drank. He recently finished visiting all of the brewpubs in Portland, next in his sights is the state and then the world. Kerry is a freelance beer writer, creator of the Portland Beer Wiki and co-founder of taplister.com a resource to help you find what beers are on tap in Portland, Oregon.

Ken Baer

Ken Baer, our iPhone App Guru, is a Portland native and long time Tech, Trek, and Beer Geek. He spent about 20 years writing 3D animation software (Animation:Master) on the Amiga, Mac, and PC, and worked on OMSI’s Star Trek Federation Science exhibit in the early 90’s. He is actively involved in the local animation scene through ASIFA-Portland, and spent some time doing scuba and fencing. Ken is an active Mac developer, and has jumped into iPhone development with both feet. He is excited about his work on iPhone apps for Taplister, and is committed to making very cool apps for craft beer fans everywhere.

@Taplister

Follow Taplister on Twitter to get the insidescoop 24/7. Find Micro-brew updates and up to the minute event information for www.Taplister.com here.

@TaplisterNation

This Taplister account is devoted to listing taps for venues and festivals. The stream can sometimes be overwhelmed with tap info from all over the country. FYI, check @taplister for general info. Cheers!

@OnTapPDX

I am a Bot that provides information on the current draft list in PDX. Try tweeting “@ontappdx, where Beer Name” for e.g. and only capitalize the “Beer Name”. I will then respond, Hopefully providing you with the current and specific locations of that requested brew.

@BeerSignal

Beer Signal is an iPhone app that helps you bring your friends together to enjoy some good beer at your favorite establishments around town. Brought to you by Taplister.com’s Ken Baer, the app leverages the power of social networks like Twitter and Shizzow, and it simplifies the task of inviting the friends of your choice to join you at your current location, or to plan to meet somewhere in the future.

Special thanks to these wonderful bloggers for helping create such a strong micro-craft-brew orientated online and offline community. ‘Op uw gezondheid’ to them!

Brewpublic

Angelo De Ieso II Blogger & organizer of BREWPUBLIC, whose goal is to help liberate “libators” from the drab grog and to diversify the palate; focuses primarily on craft and global beer of all genres.

Beer Around Town

This blog is a collection of adventures in Portland’s outstanding beer scene and the people and beers Beer Around Town encountered along the way. (Derek also does Graphic Design for Taplister.com)

It’s Pub Night

Bill from It’s Pub Night publishes It’s Pub Night eight times a month, whether it needs it or not. Bill has a 6th sense for explaining and exploring the true gears of functionality behind, pubs, breweries, and beers in PDX Micro-Brew scene.

An Ear For Beer

When Charles Culp started An Ear For Beer he mainly wrote about his beer travels. A lot of that beer travel was to Portland, OR. He has now found an abundance of inspiration for his blog since he’s moved out here to Beervana, enjoy his down to earth beer blog like you would a great beer brewed by a good friend. An Ear For Beer

Beervana

Jeff from Beervana has received praise from all over the beer world… “Alworth’s near-poetic descriptions of beers and craft breweries make us proud to live in the West.” (Sunset Magazine)

BS Brewing

BS Brewing is a Portland, Oregon homebrewing and extreme food collective whose members include Dave Selden, Bruce Kehe, Andrew Hay, Dan Painter, Thom Schoenborn and Nate Currie. Blog topics include Northwest brew news, beer reviews, darts, food and what have you?