May 17, 2017
Last week, during the monthly meeting of the St. Andrew’s Rotary Club at Bessinger’s Barbecue on Savannah Highway, Mayor John Tecklenburg came to the podium to talk a bit about the Plan West Ashley meetings that have been taking place over the last several months....
May 17, 2017
As we continue on through May, the hint of summer is juxtaposed with the last grasp of winter. As pollen clogs the drains and coats the cars, I awoke recently to my heat kicking on late at night; it was set on 66. That said, I see 90s looming this week, so I don’t...
May 11, 2017
Frothy Beard’s new 30-barrel tanks arrived last week, tripling the brewery’s capacity after being open just five weeks. The big expansion comes nearly nine months ahead of schedule as demands for Frothy beer continue to skyrocket. “We just can’t brew beer fast...
May 11, 2017
The year of 1919 was barely a month old when Congress ratified the 18th amendment to the constitution. Later in the year, Congress passed the National Prohibition Act, known more commonly as the Volstead Act, providing federal guidelines for the ban on the...
May 3, 2017
As we’ve hit May, one of a few beer-centric holidays looms large. With Cinco de Mayo kicking off this weekend, there’s no better time to discuss the interesting, lets be honest – expected, trend of craft brewed Mexican-style lager. Since American craft brewing...
Apr 29, 2017
It is not yet summer, and I am certainly not finished drinking the wonder ambers, pale ales and bocks of spring. However, yesterday the temperature was 84 degrees and not a cloud was in the sky. As a friend of mine and I popped over to a local filling station, our...
