It took two trips to Jackson, Mississippi to really pin down why Lucky Town Brewing Company was so special to us. It was worth it. Lucas Simmons and Chip Jones of Lucky Town They only make a handful of beers and they can’t even sell those beers at the brewery so why did…
Babalu, tucked into an old school gymnasium, floored me with their delicious food and tableside guacamole. They could have possibly been the best carnitas I ever had. Well that’s a bold statement for me to make. I love carnitas, invariably ordering them every single time I visit a restaurant that even remotely resembles mexican…
For the most part, Jackson flies under the radar. Turns out the city really does have soul. What most people know of Mississippi’s state capital might be just what they gather from movies, songs, or hearsay. Sucks for them. Jackson, nestled just south of the middle of the state about two hours to the coast…
You know the ban on growlers in Florida is silly. Here we try to explain why the ban is so bad for the industry. What’s going on? In Florida if you want to purchase a growler you are limited to two choices, the quart sized 32-ounce and the hefty 128-ounce “gallon” size. Unfortunately most of…
Maryville’s Full Service BBQ brings authentic and delicious barbecue to the barren bbq landscape of Eastern Tennessee. It might just be the best bbq in Tennessee too. BBQ is one of those things, much like politics and religion, that people will get up in arms about. Being nestled between both Memphis and North Carolina BBQ…
Knoxville’s Brewers Jam is a who’s who of brewers, but none have the lineage of Woodruff’s Brewing. What’s their history with the event?
The final leg of our trip landed us in Asheville where we found the best beers and breweries from the entire trip. It rained nearly the whole way to Winston-Salem, but we drove on. We had a date with Foothills brewing and I wanted to do my best to stick to day two’s schedule….
It was a short drive to our next stop but we were still behind schedule. Luckily there were beers to be enjoyed at Fullsteam Brewery in Durham. It took us a short thirty minutes to drive from Raleigh’s Big Boss Brewery to the next beer maker on my list. Yes the list was…
When we started this road trip in Raleigh I had a perfectly laid out schedule. We were going to see twelve beer related places in two days across my home state from Raleigh to Asheville and as many stops as we could cram into our two days along the way. It seems the saying “all…
As an excuse to drink, writer Eric Gibson dragged his brother on a road trip across North Carolina to celebrate Beer Month.