I got hooked on the idea of bikepacking after listening to a podcast about a guy circling the globe on two wheels and having done a modest bike trip across Florida, I was ready for my own adventure.  I’m not quite that ambitious and still wanted a family to come home to, so I…

Picking favorite beers is like picking your favorite child.  You want to say that they’re all good, but sometimes one just makes you smile a bit more inside.  This ranking is based strictly on taste and judged by the type of beer.  My taste buds seem to prefer IPAs (especially hazy), nutty stouts and German…

2021 This is based more on the atmosphere and circumstances around the consumption of the beer rather than the actual taste of the beer.  Though bad beers are unlikely to make this list. The beer must be drank at a bar, restaurant, or brewery and not at a home or apartment. I might make a…

Beer under the arches.  Yeah.  It is as cool as it sounds. When I first heard about the Bermondsey Beer Mile, I was sold.  It could have been the alliteration or the possibility that there might be a mile of beer.  Who knows? I knew nothing else about it, but I was sold.  Then I…

London is famous for its pub scene.  There’s a pub just about on every corner in the city, some of which have been there since the 1700s  And you can count on a few familiar beers.  You can always get a Guinness, a Carlsberg, and Keep in mind that when you go into a pub,…

  Dunedin just may be the best little beer town you’ve never heard of.  While technically a suburb of it’s larger neighbors, Tampa and Clearwater, Dunedin maintains its own character and charm and feels way more like a small town.  The town was settled by Scottish immigrants and has embraced that heritage with the annual…

Picking favorite beers is like picking your favorite child.  You want to say that they’re all good, but sometimes one just makes you smile a bit more inside.  This ranking is based strictly on taste and judged by the type of beer.  My taste buds seem to prefer IPAs (especially hazy), nutty stouts and German…

It’s time for my annual ranking of my top 5 beer experiences of 2020.  Great way to wrap up a year in beer.  It goes without saying, but 2020 was a strange year and a lot of my beer drinking was done at home, at a friends (outside, of course) or at an AirBnB. Here…

Tucked up in the mountains at 4,118 ft, Highlands, North Carolina is bit of a surprise for most people expecting to find a sleepy mountain town.  Sure, it’s surrounded by mountains, waterfalls, and hiking trails, but it’s more of an upscale spa town.  It’s a popular place for Atlanta’s upper crust to have their second…

There are a lot of great beer towns in the United States, but Asheville, North Carolina can hold its own with just about any of them.  Not just in the number of breweries, but in the quality and proximity of each location.  It’s the perfect spot for a beercation (click here for the perfect Asheville…