Growlers are the hot new thing in the craft beer industry right now. Folks love to get a 64 oz jug of quality craft beers on tap to go. Depending on the beer, you are paying anywhere from $8 to $12 to fill your jar. Typically, it’s a great deal for quality craft beer. The [...]
SweetWater Brewing Company just celebrated their 15th anniversary, and they are due some thanks for sparking the craft brewing business to Georgia. If you live in Georgia, you can’t go to a restaurant these days without running into a SweetWater brew on the beer list. There’s good reason for this fact; it’s damn good beer. [...]
One of the best things about the weather warming up in the south is that it’s festival season. Some of the best festivals revolve around refreshing adult beverages. The Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival kicked things off in Atlanta, and now its time to welcome the next few festivals. Here are four beer festivals around [...]
It’s great to see the world of craft beer exploding in the South. Metro Atlanta, in particular, has been falling in love with the art of craft beer. Look at all of the amazing new breweries and festivals popping up. The rest of the South hasn’t been immune to all of the buzz around the [...]
As of today, I have experienced the Red Hare Brewing Company brewery tour twice, and each time I have learned something completely new. Over the past few years, I have experienced my fair share of brewery tours, and these have been by far the best so far. If you aren’t from Georgia, I’ll clue you [...]
Nothing goes better with aged beef than an American IPA. Tonight, I chose to pick up a beer that straddles the Mason Dixon line. The Heavy Seas Loose Cannon forever solidifies Maryland as a Southern state in my mind. Loose Cannon is an easy going beer. It’s exceptionally smooth. The citrus notes mellow out the bitter [...]
If you thought that the Atlanta beer festivals this summer were fun, wait till you experience an entire week of craft beer! Atlanta Beer Week is an entire week devoted to craft beer… in Atlanta. The week long hoppy extravaganza begins on October 1 and ends on October 8, 2011. This year is supposed to [...]
We shuffled our way into the car, half asleep, eyes barely open, coffee deprived, but anxious for what the Memorial Day weekend had in store for us. Originally when we had plotted our course, we had made plans to stop by Greensboro, North Carolina on our way to Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. Those plans [...]
This past Wednesday, I was scanning over The Trot Line Twitter feed, and I noticed an interesting post by Terrapin Beer Company. They had announced that they would be tapping one of the first casks of their side project beer, “Indiana Krunkles” at The Fred. After the initial excitement of a new Terrapin beer getting [...]
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