Hello! Welcome to Beer47, a blog and social media presence dedicated to craft beer and homebrewing. This blog covers a number of topics like craft beer, brewery tours, beer review, cooking with beer, home brewing, and so on. You can also find Beer47 on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Untappd.

Team

Beer47 is a husband and wife team living in San Francisco, CA.

Dave Jensen started Beer47 in January 2009 and is the primary writer and photographer for the blog and is the voice behind the social media accounts. Dave enjoys many styles like IPA, malt English-styles, refreshing lagers, barrel-aged stouts, sours, Belgian-styles, and much more.

Dave has also written articles in the following publications:

• Articles written for Menuism
• Articles written for Huffington Post
• Introduction to Gose Style Beers (Huffington Post)
• All About Cask Conditioned Beers (Huffington Post)

Liz Jensen occasionally writes articles about brewery tours and events. She also has designed all of the beer t-shirts found on the Beer47 T-Shirt Store. Liz enjoys brown ale, stout, pale ale, and most IPAs.

About

After being a home brewer for a number of years, Dave decided that he wanted to share his experiences as a home brewer and craft beer enthusiast in the form of a blog. In January 2009, he wrote his first blog post on beer47 and posted his first craft beer tweet.

Why 47?

This is a question that we are frequently asked. Dave attended Pomona College in the late 90s and at Pomona there is mysterious lore about the number 47. It started in 1964, when Professor of Mathematics Donald Bentley proved that all numbers are equal to 47. The proof was just an example for students on how to write mathematical proofs and was not actually mathematically valid. Since then, the coincidences of 47 in relation to Pomona College did not stop. The freeway off-ramp for Pomona College and the Claremont Colleges is Exit 47 (although the exit 47 was missing the last time I drove by), there are 47 pipes in the top row of an organ in the music hall, at the time of the first graduating class, in 1894, there were 47 students enrolled, and the list keeps going. In a sense, the number 47 is an unofficial mascot of Pomona College.

• The Mystery of 47
• Wikipedia: 47 (number)

Dave and Liz live in San Francisco, which is coincidentally approximately 47 square miles. (Note: San Francisco is famously known to be 7 miles by 7 miles but it turns out the city is not a perfect square).

Disclosures

We occasionally receive free samples of beer from breweries. Each article that references a comped beer includes a separate disclosure.

Dave is co-founder and CTO of BREWD by Fermented Labs.