Alan McLeod writes A Good Beer Blog, covering the detailed history of Canadian brewing and international beer history. He's an avid researcher and writer and has gotten conversations going about the history of North American brewing, working up quite a following - 22,000 Google Reader followers and 3,300 Twitter followers. Alan is quoted on the online "about us" section of Taps, Canada's beer magazine. Ontario Craft Brewers, a network of thirty-two province brewers, sponsors Alan's blog.