Beer Festivals, Charlotte, Craft Beer Travel, Travel, United States

Queen City Brewers Festival in Charlotte, North Carolina

February 5, 2015

Seriously? Another craft beer festival? Less than a year ago I was saying the same thing about craft breweries. How many is too many? It seemed like every week the Charlotte Business Journal published an article about another proposed opening. Don’t get me wrong, I like beer (just look at my belly), but was the mug about to spillover? While I’ve come to the conclusion that the craft beer market has not…

Best in the World, Eating, Food, Travel

Best Restaurants in the World – Part One

February 3, 2015

A couple of weeks ago I reached out to some of the top travel, food, craft beer, and wine bloggers in the world and asked them a not so simple question. “What’s the best restaurant in the world?” Below is part one of their answers for Best Restaurants in the World. The taste voyage spans from Laos to Ecuador to Portugal with some exciting stops in between. Bearfoot Bistro in Whistler, Canada…

Raleigh Rare Beer Festival

January 29, 2015

The Craft Beer Festival Movement I kind of feel like a hippy going to Woodstock when I attend a craft beer festival. The whole craft movement is still pretty new and the festival phenomenon is even newer with multiple popping up in almost every major metropolitan city (We have well over a dozen here in Charlotte). When I tell friends that I’m going, it’s like I’m wearing a renegade badge of honor where…

Southern Star Brewing Review in Conroe, Texas

January 20, 2015

Weighing the Good with the Bad at Southern Star This is one of the toughest brewery reviews I’ve written. Mainly because I’ve been taught that if I don’t have anything nice to say (or in my case type), then I shouldn’t type anything at all. Thus, I tend to focus on the positives over the negatives. It’s not that I sugarcoat my reviews to spin a bad experience good. That will never…

Blogging, Travel

A Huge Announcement for 2015!

January 13, 2015

So I’m a little late to the Happy New Year post game. Sorry about that, but I have my reasons. Mainly, I’ve been quite sick since Christmas Day. In fact, we had to extend our stay in Ohio because I pretty much didn’t leave the bed for two days. After I finally managed to lift my carcass out of the horizontal position, I was still empty in the energy department. The eight…

Blogging, Travel

Home for the Holidays (For The Last Time)

January 6, 2015

As a prone wander, it was still bittersweet to spend my last Christmas ever in the house that I grew up in. It’s true that I haven’t lived in the house since leaving for college, but it was still the house that my parents have called home for thirty four years and the only one that lives in my childhood memories. Alas, the time has come for them to move onto brighter…

B-52 Brewing in Conroe, Texas

December 29, 2014

B-52 Brewing is a Brewery You Just Have to Visit Some breweries, for whatever reason, you just have to visit. Maybe it’s to worship at the throne of their creativity like Cigar City Brewery in Tampa, FL. Or maybe it’s to gorge on kick-ass food alongside superbly crafted beers like North Country Brewery in Slippery Rock, PA. Or maybe it’s to participate in community driven conversation while sipping brews as inspiring as…

Africa, Hotel Review, Travel, Wine

Zevenwacht Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa

December 26, 2014

A Reintroduction to South African Wine It had been quite some time since I sipped a South African wine. The last one was in a gimmicky bottle with bright colors and an animal name marketed to compete against the fruit bombs that were all the rage coming out of Australia. I remember preferring the South African juice to the Australian as it was more nuanced. Yet, for some reason, I stopped buying…

Exploring the Cape Town Craft Beer Scene

November 26, 2014

Our tour to South Africa had a huge focus on wine. And while I love wine, I couldn’t travel across the world without exploring the Cape Town craft beer scene. We arrived the night before the tour began and stayed in Central Cape Town. This was our chance for some grain before an immersion in grapes. Our hotel was a few blocks from Devil’s Peak Brewery with both award winning beers and…

Europe, Travel

Our Last Day in Rome

November 11, 2014

I was exhausted by our last day in Rome. Two weeks of sightseeing, over eating and drinking, and sleeping in strange beds had caught up with me. The last thing I wanted to do was hit another popular tourist attraction and fight crowds. I had enough of that already. We woke up late and lingered over breakfast in our hotel room near Trevi Fountain, fingering through Frommer’s Rome Day by Day for a…

Travel

Queen City Brewers Festival in Charlotte, North Carolina

Best Restaurants in the World – Part One

Raleigh Rare Beer Festival

Southern Star Brewing Review in Conroe, Texas

A Huge Announcement for 2015!

Home for the Holidays (For The Last Time)

B-52 Brewing in Conroe, Texas

Zevenwacht Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Exploring the Cape Town Craft Beer Scene

Our Last Day in Rome

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