Our St Louis Roadtrip, part 3

We can’t believe it’s been four months since our beer excursion to St. Louis. It feels like 2014 is going by so fast, so after much delay, here’s the final installment. We had a busy Friday and Saturday and had enjoyed a lot of good beer and food. By Sunday morning we were tired from running … Read more

Here comes the Western Michigan beer!

How serendipitous! On a day when the first cases of New Holland beer arrived in Nashville, TN, Founders announced distribution to Tennessee. I grew up in the tiny village of Stevensville, MI and still have a deep love for Western Michigan. Stevensville is about an hour from Holland, home of New Holland. Founders is from … Read more

American Beer. It’s never been better.

It’s never been a better time to be a beer lover in America. We’re experiencing a beer renaissance across our great land and beer choice and variety has never been better. However, this isn’t the first time there were broad consumer beer choices. The American beer industry flourished until prohibition. Thousands of small local breweries … Read more

Our St Louis Roadtrip, part 2

Last month we told you about our long weekend trip to St. Louis and our first day’s adventures. That Friday was just the warm-up, Saturday was the marathon. After breakfast we headed to the LaSalle Park neighborhood and 4 Hands Brewing Company taproom, hoping to catch the first tour of the day. Opening time was Noon, … Read more

Life is short. Make the most of the time you have.

The best thing about the craft beer community is not the beer, it’s the community. Yesterday the Nashville beer community gathered to celebrate and remember our friend Curtis McArthur, who passed away on New Year’s Day after a tragic accident. There was noted absence from our gathering because Curtis was the heart and soul of the … Read more