2023 BM3 TN Beer Adventure: Down to Single Digits

It’s been an incredible experience trying to visit every brewery in Tennessee in 2023 on the 2023 Beer Makes Three Tennessee Beer Adventure. The year is almost done, and so is the adventure. Unless we find another brewery we haven’t heard of, or one opens in the next few weeks, this list is set. We’ve … Read more

Salt Lake City is a Great Beer Town?

Last year, Kendall and I toured the mountain west from Butte, MT, to the northern parts of Arizona and New Mexico, with a large part of the trip to Utah. We flew in and out of Salt Lake City but didn’t get to spend much time in the city. We had one night in town, … Read more

Black is Beautiful

There were two big stories in 2020 for Craft Beer, COVID-19 and the Black is Beautiful beer project.  This post may seem untimely since  Black is Beautiful beers started releasing in July, but we kept putting it off. The delay gave us time to reflect on the impact of the movement and the beers it … Read more

Brewing Begins in the Malthouse

When you take a brewery tour, you usually hear the history first. There’s the one about the homebrewing engineer who got tired of making tires more round, so he started a brewery (true story). Then, the tour guide asks the group what beer’s ingredients are. There are usually a few guesses from the crowd, with … Read more

Discover Kalispell!

As we wrap up 2019, we’re grateful for all the wonderful times we had throughout the year. We had a lot of great experiences on our Montana trip, but our last stop in Montana was special, Kalispell, MT, the site of the Beer Now post-conference. To get there from Great Falls, MT, we drove through … Read more