Post Brewvival Top 10 and Pics!

This 2014 Charleston Brewvival was the best yet in my opinion.  Cheers to Coast Brewing and the guys from Charleston Beer Exchange for putting together a kick @$$ event at a time when they are busier than ever with the recent opening of Edmund's Oast and Coast's expansion.  Less than 365 days until Brewvival 2015.  Let the countdown begin.  Prior to Brewvival we posted our Brewvival top 10 beers we were most interested in sampling.  After sampling them all and many others, these are the top 10 we enjoyed the most!

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Brewvival Eve Top Ten List

We are Charleston Craft Beer are super stoked for the big day tomorrow!  We recently took some time to look over the beer list for tomorrow's Brewvival and formulated our top 10 beers we are each most excited about.  Check out each of our lists and comment with your own top 10!  See ya'll at Brewvival.  Look for me, I will be wearing my drinking shoes.

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Brewvival Week Events!

Wednesday
House of Brews
Local Brew Night from 5-8pm
"Come by Wednesday for a sneak peak of some Brewvival offerings, as well as some oldie-but-goodies from some of SC's finest brewing establishments. Chris from LO-CO Foods will be cooking up some bangin' tacos and sides to make sure you'll be belly full, too, so get yer minds right!"


A few of the draffs to look forward to:
Freehouse Brewery Amber Saison
The Frothy Beard Brewing Company Peppermint Porter
Palmetto Brewing BA Espresso Porter
RJ Rockers Brewery Peachy King
Westbrook Brewing Company Shanes Big DIPA

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Unnamed Saison- A Frothy Beard and Charleston Craft Beer Collaboration Beer!

A few weeks before Christmas break, our friends from The Frothy Beard Brewing Company asked if we wanted to do a collaboration beer.  Damn right we do!!!  So we got together just before Christmas
and hashed out a recipe over some Frothy Beer.  We decided we would brew a Saison, and because Frothy had recently received some Persimmons (it's a fruit), we figured we might as well use the Persimmons in some way to make this beer unique.  Perhaps it will be EPIC!!!

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Reflections on Charleston Brewvival 2012

With Charleston Brewvival 2012 two weeks in the past, it's time for me to reflect on how kick @$$ it was!!!  If you read my pre-Brewvival post, you saw that I made a top ten list of beers (see bottom for my top 10) I must try at Brewvival.  I came up with the idea after Brewvival 2011, deciding that I definitely needed a strategy for this type of event.  The strategy was to prioritize the beers I must, must, must try since there are so many good one's to choose from.  Part 2 of the strategy was to drink alot of water and eat alot of food.  Overall, the strategy worked as I left there highly satisfied in terms of beers tasted, highly full of delicious food, and mostly hydrated.  All this ='s me leaving Brewvival not wasted and fully functional the next day.  

In regards to the beer....all I can say is WOWSERS!!!  What a great selection of breweries and CRAZY beers!!!  Crazy in the best way possible.  In regards to my top 10 list, I was able to try 8 out of the 10.  Not too shabby!!!  The two that I didn't get to try were the Brooklyn Brewmaster's Reserve Mary's Maple Porter and the Great Divide Oaked Red Yeti (Cask).  The Brooklyn was gone by the time I got there and the Great Divide, well somehow I just never made it there.  Not sure what happened.  Of my top 10, here's how I rated them. 

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