As 2015 draws to a close and the world gets ready to ring in a new year, we wanted to just take a moment to reflect on this past year at Bevvy, celebrate some milestones, and give thanks to our friends, families, advisors, bartenders, craft producers, users, viewers, and all of the other great people we’ve met along the way.
New Year Drinks
But first—if you arrived here looking for some recommended tipples to celebrate the New Year, we aren’t going to let you own. Here’s a few excellent New Year tipples you can’t go wrong with:
For even more options, check out this collection of champagne-based sips, as anything with bubblies will serve the occasion well.
Looking Back…
It’s been a pivotal year for us in a lot of ways, namely:
- the little side project that was Bevvy became a real product and early-stage startup
- we’ve iterated, enhanced, and launched many new product features
- we continue to hand-curate our content obsessively, improving the quality of our recipes and other data
- we hired our first staff writers, who have been keeping busy covering everything from drink culture to the best bars to cocktail geek-outs to (perhaps our favorite) meeting with passionate bartenders and producers and telling their stories
- we published our first ever cocktail video, utilizing all of the secret tricks taught by The Morgenthaler Method
- and on Repeal Day (December 5) we launched the Bevvy Spirits catalog, making it easy to learn about spirit products and discover new brands
What a way to end the year! It’s immensely rewarding to see that people like our little idea of building a product and community around helping people drink better as much as we do.
Looking Forward…
Our mission at Bevvy is to connect the world to excellent drinking, and we’ll continue to do just that in 2016. This mantra drives everything that we do and create, from our product to our content to the community that we’re building.
Keep an eye out for more product enhancements to help you find home bartending inspiration, and discover the best drinks, bars, and bartenders in the world. We’ll also be sharing more interviews and coverage of booze producers, their products, and their stories, as well as adding more products to our database so you can explore and compare an even broader selection of fine spirits. Look to meet more of your fellow imbibers, and hear their stories of how they’re drinking better. And of course, there’ll be a few special surprises thrown in throughout the year.
As we’ve said before, it’s a great time to be a drinker. Excellent bar and cocktail programs are popping up everywhere, from the cities to the suburbs and all around the world. The craft distilling and craft brewing movements continue their charge, and there are great new products to be tasted every day. Perhaps most importantly, there’s just more information out there than ever before.
Whether you’re looking to research popular cocktail recipes, geek out on the history of a classic drink, find a good hair of the dog to nurse that hangover, or pick out an amazing whiskey for your significant other, Bevvy will be there to help, in 2016 and beyond.
And a Big Thank You!
Last, but not least, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of you—our friends, families, advisors, bartenders, craft producers, users, viewers, and all of the other great people we’ve met along the way.
Thank you for using Bevvy, for sharing your stories, for tolerating our incessant, often late-night conversations about cocktails and product features, for the countless drinks, for the advice and guidance, and for simply making our jobs so rewarding.
We truly have the best jobs in the world—learning about booze, talking about booze, and of course, drinking booze.
From all of us at Bevvy, we want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. We raise our glasses in a virtual toast—clink—and here’s to drinking better in 2016 and beyond.
Cheers,
The Bevvy Crew
