Short Version

Welcome to my little corner of the Internet known as Another Pint Please. My name is Mike Lang, and I’m a grilled food photographer, writer, and videographer based in Dayton, Ohio. I am the “Grillographer” for Weber Grills, where I approach a steak on the kettle like a National Geographic photographer captures a tiger on the Serengeti. My work has appeared in broadcast commercials, live television, and Sports Illustrated. I’m the author of One-Beer Grilling. Most nights I’m found on the deck, firing up a grill, and Instagramming a beer and dinner. Life is good.

In case that wasn’t enough…here’s the longer version:

Long Version

Hey, you are still here. Fantastic! Here’s the story of why a blog predominately about grilling food is called Another Pint Please. Starting as a travel blog back in 2006, APP was originally a way of sharing a trip to the Isle of Wight in England. I had two choices for a title, Belligerent Yank or Another Pint Please. The latter, a phrase I would utter the most abroad. Naturally, Another Pint Please won out.

Over that particular trip, friends were getting married. I liked going to pubs and drinking beer(s). I excelled at embarrassing friends taking pictures of food in public. I enjoyed writing about things I found funny, and others didn't. It was all good.

Unfortunately, the holiday soon came to an end, and I found myself back stateside with a dormant blog and too much time on my hands. Then, in early 2007, two things happened:  I blogged about the unboxing of my new Weber Summit 650 grill and my great friend and longtime co-worker, Eric, wrote a blog post entitled "What's on the Grill?".

These two events started me thinking. I love to grill. I also enjoy photography but never had an outlet for it. Why not photograph and write about what I grill? With that splendid, if albeit rare moment of clarity in my life, my "What's on the Grill?" series was born and the direction of APP changed forever.

Over the years, I have highlighted hundreds of "What's on the Grill" posts and shared 10,000 plus photographs to Flickr, garnering over 3 million views. Through Creative Commons licensing, my photos have appeared across the Internet on dozens of websites including Lifehacker, BuzzFeed, Vox and the Smithsonian. In 2009 I started writing and taking photographs for the sadly short-lived magazine, Grilled. In 2011, I created photographs, video, and recipes for Saffire Grills, my first foray into Kamado cookers.