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Bottle & Can & BBQ, Salisbury, NC
What would a visit to the Salisbury/Spencer North Carolina area be without a trial of the local craft beer scene, and Lexington-style BBQ? And Cheerwine?
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Hana Koa Brewery, Honolulu
The Hana Koa Brewing Co. in Honolulu, Oahu in Hawaii offers tasty food and a broad range of beer styles brewed on site.
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Northern Neck Brewing Co., Montross, Virginia
Fortunately, our trip down last weekend coincided with the grand opening of a new brewery in Montross, Virginia, the Northern Neck Brewing Co. With a resident chef and a full range of beer styles, the new project certainly looked promising.
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Random Row, Charlottesville, Virginia
The walk that became a quest took us from the center of Charlottesville past a strip mall and a renovated Art Deco-era building to the low-slung dark façade housing Random Row Brewing Co.
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James River Brewing, Scottsville, Virginia
The James River Brewery was a local joint my cousin had spotted before, but hadn’t yet tried, so we spent a lovely Sunday afternoon in early March sampling a few of its award-winning beers.
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Top Beers of 2021
I have got to keep this simple, or it won’t get done…so here goes. There were 14 total beers that I rated 4.5 or higher in Untappd in 2021. And though that’s far from a perfect way to sort out my favorite beers last year, it happens to include a wide enough range of styles…
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Surrey Hills Brewery, Dorking
It’s a bit of a puzzle to find, tucked in behind the Denbies winery on the outskirts of Dorking, Surrey…but worth it to track down the Surrey Hills Brewery taproom for a fresh taste of what they have in the works. I’d had several of their more broadly distributed beers, either at Cobbetts or other…
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Colonial Beach Brewing, Virginia
When we last visited the Northern Neck of Virginia, and had a flight with our friends at Montross Brewery, we asked them whether the region between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers held any more craft brewers for us to seek out. An affirmative yes–so we made our way to one of them, Colonial Beach Brewing,…
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Flor de Lúpulo, Lisboa
So nice we stopped in twice…on the same night. Nothing encourages me to leave the comfort of my couch early for a meeting in the city like two things: beating the traffic snarl at 5 pm, and the chance to hit a new pub along the way. So we drive down to Lisboa an hour…