This past weekend I had the opportunity to work a beer festival for the first time. Nicole and I poured beer for Thomas Creek, along with Katie Barnes and Bill Davis from the brewery, at Hickory Hops in Hickory, North Carolina. It was by far the most fun I’ve had at a beer festival.
Working a [...]
Where do you begin when you have 100 cask beers to choose from?
That was the dilemma we faced when we arrived at the Sweetwater Brewery at 6 pm on Saturday, and that’s the dilemma I face right now as I attempt to write this article.
Sweetwater Brewing Company in Atlanta, Georgia hosted Brew Your Cask Off, [...]
Last weekend I attended the first ever Brewvival Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. I’m still a relative novice when it comes to beer festivals, having only been to a handful, but this one was truly geared toward the beer geek.
Beer under the Big Top
The festival was organized by the Charleston Beer Exchange and Coast Brewing [...]
The first thing that went through my mind when I entered the Haywood Park Ballroom on Saturday, “Man, those are big taster glasses.” I immediately knew the Winter Warmer Festival was going to be a slightly different experience than what I had at the World Beer Festival the weekend before in Columbia.
After being handed an [...]
As I mentioned in a HopPress post a few weeks ago, I grew up in Columbia, having lived there from 1986 to 2007, with a couple years away at the College of Charleston in the middle. To say the least, Columbia has never been known as much of a beer town.
The only surviving brewery is [...]
We don’t have a tremendous number of beer festivals in the South, especially here in South Carolina. Because of this dearth of beer gatherings, I get really excited when festivals do come around.
There are two beer festivals in January that I am thrilled to be able to attend: the World Beer Festival in Columbia, SC [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Asheville, NC tied Portland, OR in Charlie Papazian’s poll to crown Beer City USA earlier this year. We here in the South are very proud of our underdog story, so we probably bring it up more often than we should. But hey, how often do we get to be mentioned [...]
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