Formerly called Flaherty’s, Irish Pub and Sports Grill reopened with lower prices and a new name, but is it still the same? Been listening to your Flogging Molly Pandora station and dreaming about jetting off to Ireland for a pint of Guinness with fish and chips? Since my first trip “across the pond” about a…
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.
Officially Old North Knoxville’s newest bar and beer store has been open for a couple of weeks, however Saturday night was the actual grand opening to one of the hippest new beer joints in the Happy Holler area of Knoxville. We were there to make a dent in their beer list and to take in…
When we take a look at the calendar in March we notice the one holiday that brings in Spring with jubilant revelrie. Year after year the seventeenth of March we celebrate the Feast of Saint Patrick by consuming green beer by the pintfull and eating what we consider traditional Irish dishes. But what is it…
There is a lot of fuss about all these abbey beers or Trappist beers. Why do both beer snobs and connoisseurs swear that these beers by these hermetic monks tucked away in Belgium monasteries are the greatest liquid to grace any taste buds the world round. So why not take a look into what makes these beers…