Beer fests rock

Beer all the time: Riverbend Malt House, Brewgrass, etc.

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Just had this story about the first Southeastern Malt House published in Mountain Xpress. Here’s an excerpt: Brent Manning and Brian Simpson want to take drinking local to a whole other level with their new malt house in West Asheville. Think about it. You may support local breweries by quaffing their beers, but some ingredients [...]

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My other beery writing

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  Bona fide brewer rock star Garrett Oliver is coming to Asheville. Read all about it in this week’s Mountain Xpress. Also contains information about some area beer festivals. And here’s a review I did for the Beer Bucket list: Lonerider Sweet Josie Brown Ale   Brewery: LoneRider Brewing Company Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Style: [...]

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Winter Warmer Beer Festival–soon

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Forgot to mention that I’ll be working at Asheville’s Winter Warmer Beer Festival today. If you don’t have tickets already, you’re probably out of luck. Though typically there are a few souls selling their tickets outside the venue the day of–which is TODAY! Yep, Sat., Jan. 22 from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Asheville [...]

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Start early, train hard

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Asheville’s oldest and most famous beer festival, Brewgrass, isn’t on tap until the third Saturday in September. Even so, you can start training now. Training, you ask? Yes, indeed. Because in order to taste around 200 beers in seven hours, you need to be in the best beer drinking shape possible. In order to help [...]

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Oktoberfest

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Asheville’s Oktoberfest street party took place more than a week ago. And it was a blast! I didn’t get that many great photos because I was running around doing “beer drinker on the street” interviews for Michael Muller of Mountain Xpress. Though that footage has mysteriously disappeared. Thank Ninkasi for small favors! See, here I [...]

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Brewgasms at Brewgrass

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Yes, I had multiple brewgasms at Asheville’s Brewgrass Festival last weekend. Unlike the guy who was taking notes on his IPhone during one of my Beer Goddess tours (I allowed some Beer Gods to come along), I’ll have to rely on my suds-fueled memory. So I might leave a couple out (Sorry brewer friends. You [...]

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Brewgrass video preview

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Brewgrass organizer, Jimi Rentz, and I talk about Brewgrass. Thanks to Out of the Box Productions for, well, production. And thanks to Jimi for letting me play behind the bar at Barley’s!

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Brewgrass Approaches

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Just a few more days until the granddaddy of Asheville (and dare I say Southeastern?) beer fests: Brewgrass! (Brewer list at this link). Here’s the story I wrote about the fest for this week’s Mountain Xpress, titled “Bringing in the Brew Bucks.” Yep, it covers some of the economic impact of the fest. In other [...]

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Take your kids to work night at Thirsty Fest

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UPDATE: Thirsty Fest is still on, though the Sexual Chocolate and the Kentucky Breakfast Stout have been drunk dry. Thanks, y’all, for reading (and ruining my day). Seriously, though, the word is they’ll be tapping some rare Oskar Blues kegs tonight. Check it. OK, y’all. Thirsty Fest at The Thirsty Monk in Asheville may just [...]

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Barrel-aged beers and good tastes from Beer City Fest

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I promised to write about some of the beers I tasted at last Saturday’s Beer City Festival in Asheville. I didn’t taste enough beers, sadly, as I was too busy taking photos, video and talking to brewers. And even though it’s not quite beer-thirty, I think it’s time for me to crack one while I [...]

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