About Brian Cendrowski

I’m Brian Cendrowski, beer blogger and homebrewer. I first began my adventures in craft beer around 2003. My love of beer and the craft beer culture has turned this into more than a hobby for me.

In January 2007 I brewed my first batch of beer, a red ale from extract. It wasn’t great, but it was drinkable. A few months later I was totally hooked on all things beer, so in May 2007 I decided to go global and start my personal beer blog, Untamed Beer.

Since that time, I have had a lot of cool opportunities, including interning at a commercial brewery (Coast Brewing Company in North Charleston, SC), emceeing beer dinners, meeting and interviewing commercial brewers, brewing some damn good beer myself, publishing the Hop Tips e-newsletter for the Southern Brew News, and now, being a contributing blogger on RateBeer’s HopPress.

Me and my wife Nicole with Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head

As part of the HopPress Gang, my posts will be published every Thursday, with a few others possibly sprinkled in. I hope to add a little bearded flare to the HopPress crew. I try not to take myself too seriously, so we should have some fun.

In addition to blogging on RateBeer, here are some other places you can follow me:

• Untamed Beer – my personal beer blog, filled with anecdotes of homebrewing, travels, beer reviews and even current events.
• @untamedbeer – you never know what will happen on the Twitters.
• Southern Brew News Hop Tips e-newsletter – a calendar of beer related events for the Southeast, sent bi-monthly.
• Linked In & Facebook – I’m there, but not too active right now.
• My other personal blog – in case you care what I have to say other than about beer. I don’t update this blog nearly as often.

I’m also available for children’s birthday parties, confirmations and Bar Mitzvahs.