Tag Archives: Craft Beer

2010 WaZoo Beer Festival – A View from the Other Side of the Bottle

Every year, Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo holds several major fund-raising events.  The best of them, in this craft beer lover’s opinion, is WaZoo.  Listed by USA Today as one of the “10 Great Beer Festivals” in America, it is also – in the words of Cigar City Brewing’s Wayne Wambles – the “biggest sweat fest [...]

Weyerbacher Brewing Company

I recently paid a visit to Weyerbacher Brewing Company in Easton, PA to check out their brewery tour. I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that they give out free samples of their beer on Saturdays 12-3pm! Sweet!

3rd Annual St. Petersburg Craft Beer Expo

In the midst of the Florida Summer heat, beer lovers converged on downtown St. Petersburg on Saturday, July 31st to attend the 3rd Annual St. Petersburg Craft Beer Expo. Held in a new location this year (the St. Petersburg Coliseum), over 100 beers from over 25 breweries were served to a crowd estimated to be near [...]

Front Street Brewery, and the end of an NC beer journey

The final leg of our road trip through North Carolina included a stopover at Front Street Brewery, located in historic downtown Wilmington, right next to the beautiful Cape Fear River.

Beer Travel IV – Waimea, Hawai’i

Beer Travel I – Kona, Hawai’i
Beer Travel II – Hilo, Hawai’i
Beer Travel III – Volcano and the South Road, Hawai’i
The northern route between Hilo and Kailua-Kona is a vastly different experience than its sibling down south. The Mamalahoa Highway (HI-19) follows the coastline out of Hilo, taking travelers along a gorgeous view of the Pacific [...]

Asheville – Beer City USA

Gosh, where do I even start with Asheville…
Asheville was my favorite city in North Carolina. Hands down. And not just because of the beer. I mean, yeah, that’s part of it, but this city just has so much going for it… Let’s start with the beer.

This Ain’t Your Granny’s Quilt

A beer T-shirt quilt preserves memories and revives a lost art, turning something old into something new again.

Pisgah Brewing – certified organic, certified awesome

Some of the best beers we had on our North Carolina vacation was at Pisgah Brewing Company in Black Mountain, NC, about 10 miles east of Asheville. Pisgah’s beers are 100% certified organic, and fantastically delicious to boot!

Every Beer has a Story

I’ve been using “Every beer has a story” as my motto and personal mission statement for quite a while now, and while it’s kind of catchy, I also believe it’s very true.
Of any beverage I can think of, beer is the only one you can really say this about. For one thing, beer is [...]

Continued Good News for Small and Midsize Breweries?

The Brewer’s Association today released mid-year growth statistics for the craft beer industry. Once again it seems all good news for small and mid-sized breweries. Dollar sales, production volume, and number of breweries are all up for the first half of 2010 and at greater levels of increase than the same period in 2009. Meanwhile [...]