Jun
17
Editor's Note: Our good buddy and guest blogger, Professor Brandon "Old Time" Plyler, Certified Cicerone®, is back with more on his recent trip to Colorado! This time, the focus is on breweries, specifically those in/around Fort Collins. Read more about his excellent adventure below, read his other blog posts here, follow him on Twitter @NoSassBack,...
Jun
1
Editor's Note: When we heard that our friend and guest blogger, Professor Brandon "Old Time" Plyler, Certified Cicerone®, was heading to Denver, we crossed our fingers that he'd come back with a blog post...and that he'd come back safely, we guess. We were not disappointed on either front. Read about his excellent adventure below, read his other blog posts here, follow him on...
May
2
Hearts have been all a-flutter lately over the announcement of Egan's Oast being a thing.
Coverage from Charleston City Paper, The Post & Courier, and Eater Charleston has begun to clue us in on the haps at 1081 Morrison Drive. In a nutshell, the organization behind CBX/GBX is throwing their hat into the on-premise ring with a restaurant/bar/brewpub/beer garden.
Being...us, we needed to...
Apr
1
Remember Brewvival? Yeah, we do too.
As usual, the beer-fest-to-end-all-beer-fests was lousy with highlights, but one outfit that particularly caught a lot of buzz before and after was Jester King Craft Brewery from Austin, TX. Savvy drinkers - a.k.a. beer nerds - were already aware of their reputation for producing a wide variety of funky, farmhouse-inspired 750mL bottles in small batches. But...
Mar
26
Editors Note: ...in which our favorite guest blogger, Professor Brandon "Old Time" Plyler, Certified Cicerone®, dispels myriad myths about that most Irish of breweries, Guinness. Check out Brandon's other blog posts, follow him on Twitter @NoSassBack, and check out his beer reviews on Facebook! -ETP
Firstly, you will notice that in this piece I refer to Guinness in its different incarnations....
Mar
13
It seems like 2013 just got here, but April is nearly upon us, and so is Charleston Beer Week 2013!
This year's event is a complete reboot of the Charleston Craft Beer Week concept as presented last year, which we wrote passionately about here. As details are released you'll notice a vast amount of tweaks and improvements, including (but not limited to) the following:
All of our major local...





