Fannin Brewery Opening May 9.

New crew joining the #NewBrewSouth gang up in beautiful Fannin County in the Northeast Georgia Mountains.  Check out the details on the website. Great to have another place up there to visit.  Looks like they'll really be hitting the festival circuit coming up in the summer and fall.

Here's their spot.




Cheers, Y'all.

Creature Comforts in Athens, Ga Info on Line-Up

Man, I've been after the guys at Creature Comforts in downtown Athens, Ga for awhile to give the public what they need.....info on the beers they are going to sell.  Well, today is the day.  With the news yesterday that they had all four beers in the fermenters, it's great to see the styles and some info on their year-round line-up.  There will be a Pilsner, an American IPA, a Rye Amber on French oak, and a Berliner Weisse all year round.  I can't wait to taste the Berliner.

The space is beautiful , and they really did a good job using the space of the former Snow Tire building and a lot of the wood in the new bar was reclaimed and reused from the former building.  Looks like you'll be able to try beers from the guys at the original and one of the best craft beer fests, The Classic City Brewfest, and the market launch will be at a favorite Athens event, the Athens Twilight Criterium.


Good luck to Blake, Adam, David and Chris as their hard work, and all the hours of perfecting their launch recipes finally bears some fruit.  Ya know....kinda like a tart lemon of a refreshing Berline Weisse.

Three South Carolina Breweries on Maxim 10 Best List

Maxim magazine has a list of the ten best brews you've never heard of, and three beers from South Carolina make his list.  Now, the fact the author is from South Carolina might have something to do with that, but it's a national magazine and great exposure (definitely abundant in Maxim) for three breweries in the #newbrewsouth.

Heck, Brewery 85 and Quest Brewing have not even been brewing that long, so it's pretty impressive.

Brewery 85 Sweet Tea Sour

I can't wait to check out the Sour, as I've (in the not too distant past) become somewhat of a sour-phile.  Don Richardson is one of the lowest key most cool people I know in the biz.  I worked with him a bit when he was importing Belgian beers, and he was always just really cool to work with.  Well, Quest is just a really cool place in Greeneville, SC, and they have a lot of cool live music (even an outside stage), and I can't wait to check it out now that they are open to the public.

Don Richardson Quest Brewing

The Revolution in Deep South Beer may not be televised, but it's coming.  It'll be fun to watch it develop.


Cheers!

New Home Brew Shop in Charleston.

H/T to drinkblogrepeat for this blog about Charleston's new home brew shop that is opening Feb 1.  This is a great sign for the low country area of South Carolina because the more people that get into home brewing and learn about beer, the more they appreciate great well made beer.

drinkblogrepeat post on new home brew shop in Charleston

Cheers!