The Need For Speed
Inaugural Charleston’s Fastest Bartender Contest held Monday Nights in October at Ireland’s Own Irish Pub by Lorne Chambers | Editor For the first time ever, The Fastest Bartender Contest is coming to Charleston thanks to two-time national champion Billy Reilly,...
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A Recycled Beer?
A friend who read last week’s column on Stone Levitation Ale posed the query and response: “why is low-gravity beer desirable again? Gimmie Stone’s Ruination or Arrogant Bastard or the Smoked Porter any day.” To which I responded something to the effect that brewing...
Home Team ‘Racks’ Up Accolades with Ribs
Charleston has been called many things. The Holy City. Chucktown. Tennis Town, U.S.A. America’s Most Friendliest City. West Ashley has also been called many things that aren’t near as flattering. Well, the snooty ol’ peninsula can keep its nicknames, because West...
How Low Can Ya’ Go?
I know in recent weeks I have been trumpeting the horns of many big time beers. Double IPAs, Old Ales, a crazy curry Imperial Stout. There are some wild and wooly and strong beers on the shelves. But I want to again praise the continued trend of the craft beer that’s...
Sowing The Seeds of Love
Every Saturday morning, now through September, Fields Farm of Johns Island brings their freshest picks to John Wesley United Methodist Church’s front lawn on Savannah Highway. From 9 a.m. to 12 noon, anyone can come check out the produce and purchase it in exchange...
Who was that Man?
If I were to ask you about the first American craft beer you ever tried, can you remember it? Tough question, I realize. If you’re anything like me, you have had many many craft beers over many many many years. Yet, I still remember my first American craft beer-a Sam...
Reinventing Fast Food
This week Black Bean Co. opens its West Ashley location, which was formerly a Burger King on Savannah Hwy. The fact that a former greasy fast food space is now a spot for healthy, all-natural, organic, and vegan foods is not a coincidence. Owner and chef Ellis...
Buon Appetito!
Popular Italian eatery Al Di La is whisking patrons away to Spoleto, Italy during Charleston’s annual Spoleto Festival USA starting this week. In honor of the annual international performing arts festival, Al Di La is offering diners a regional tasting menu of dishes...
The Good Stuff
In this hectic, bustling world, it’s easy to forget to stop and smell the roses. We all have too much work to do and too little time, so it can be quite tough to just relax and enjoy the good stuff once in a while. Luckily, after attempting to move too much furniture,...
Crisp, Creamy, Bitter
The warm and muggy days of summer are quickly approaching and one category of beer that goes hand in hand with summer is the wheat beers from Belgium, Germany, and the U.S. While the American wheat beers of the late ’80s and early ’90s were a pale imitation of their...
A Beer For Mom
Many wine drinkers I’ve known held the mistaken belief that, while their grape-derived beverage of choice is a complex and beautiful one, beer on the other hand is one-dimensional and brutish, a tonic for college kids and working men, something to be chugged ice cold...
