When I think of hop farms, I picture bines growing on the arid slopes of the Willamette Valley in Oregon or the rolling hills of Central Europe. Western North Carolina isn’t the first place that comes to mind (or even the 15th place). However, there is a budding hop farming community that may change that.
(Technically, [...]
According to the Brewer’s Association, 117 breweries contract brewed some or all of their production1 in 2009. That’s out of 1,558 total craft breweries in the United States. Contract brewery sales accounted for 365,132 barrels out of a total of 9,115,635 barrels for the entire craft beer segment. That’s only 4% of craft beer production.
I was [...]
Trent Mooring, Josh Brewer & Stephen Hill
I first met Josh Brewer when I traveled down to Beaufort, South Carolina in the fall of 2007 to do a story on his new brewpub, appropriately named Brewer’s. He and his wife Alexia were very nice and extremely hospitable. The beer and food at the pub was excellent.
So [...]
My Mt. Rushmore of flavor combinations looks like this:
Peanut butter and chocolate
Cheese and pasta
Strawberries and vanilla (either in ice cream or yogurt)
Pizza and beer
Obviously then, Barley’s Tap Room & Pizzeria in Greenville, South Carolina, has a natural leg up with me from any other bars or restaurants in town. However, it’s not your average pizza [...]
You’ve never heard of Westbrook Brewing from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. That’s likely because it is still a twinkle in Ed Westbrook’s eye. However, soon enough you will hear more about it.
In the fall of 2010, Westbrook Brewing will become the sixth distributing brewery in South Carolina. Like many commercial brewers before him, Ed is [...]
2009 was a banner year for RJ Rockers in Spartanburg, South Carolina. They won two major awards, including a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival, and moved into their new brewery in downtown Spartanburg. I stopped in before Christmas to see the place and talk with the brewmaster and co-owner, Mark Johnsen.
The front [...]
As I started branching out and trying new beers back in 2001 and 2002, I remember having something called a Thomas Creek Dopplebock at Jake’s Bar & Grill in Columbia, SC. At the time I really didn’t know what a dopplebock was from Johan Sebastian, but it was a dark and intriguing. It was one [...]
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