We just got our 100,000th hit.  To some of you that might not mean a lot.  In fact, people who visit this site get over 100,000 on their sites in a pretty short span of time.  My little bro regularly reminds me of how many hits Finish Line gets in in much shorter span (he does a lot with their web side).  Let me tell you now without an ounce of equivocation or disappointment that I’m thrilled about our 100,000th hit.  The first month that we were a site we saw a whopping 514 hits for the whole month.  Now, a year and a half later, we are seeing our 100,000th hit.  The information and traffic has grown immensely in that period of time.  Simply stated, we’ve seen a very consistent amount of growth on the site leads me to believe we will see our next 100,000 more hits over a much shorter span of time.  Obviously, we have a turtle vs. the hare approach to growth.  I’m not sure a meteoric rise would be the best thing for us.  But I would be remiss not to add a few other points.

First of all, it really did take quite a bit of effort to post as much as we have.  I think about it sometimes. We’ve literally written the equivalent of more than a 1,000 page book on the site.  That’s a serious amount of writing.  As far as myself, I also do quite a bit of reading and thinking on the subject of beer aside from writing for the site.  So, for every hour of writing I do on the site, I’m doing at least a few hours of reading, thinking, and dreaming about beer.  I know that Nate does a lot in that respect as well.  But why do we write?  Why am I irritated when we don’t put up a post on a given day? Why am I happier when we have a couple of posts up?  Simple…you guys and girls.

I’m certain that writing for our humble site would have been a very difficult task without the encouragement, interaction, and sheer readership that you have given to us.  It makes it so much easier when you have fellow enthusiast around you. I could name, re-name, and re-re-name all the people who have supported our site.  I’ve written a post or two thanking them for their support, so I won’t go back into that aspect of the site right now.  At any rate, Nate and I would like to thank everyone for stopping by.  Our ardent readers, our new readers, and even our occasional ones deserve a ton of credit.  Thanks to everyone…I hope to be telling you about a million before too long.

Enjoy the picture of me plotting for more visits with my dastardly perv-stache.