New Name, New Focus

Yes, this dapper (and undoubtedly 1960's lush) gentleman has it partially correct - beer can change at least North Carolina, if not the world.  The passage of "Pop the Cap" in 2005 led to the profusion of craft breweries throughout the Old North State and, subsequently, a culture around the local brewpub scene that blends the best of progressive farm-to-table and conservative give-me-my-alcohol theorems into a wide assortment of brew styles that competes with any found in the United States. This is not, of course, the only local beer blog in the b'sphere, but it will strive to provide intelligent (if not academically scientific) conversation about North Carolina beer and its fledgling brewery culture. Though headquartered in Durham, the site's reviewers will make every effort to search throughout the southeast to report on the comings and (hopefully rare) goings in the local craft beer world. You'll read dispatches from great beer bars, local brewery tours and tasting rooms and out-of-the-way beer stores that provide that extra variety that lovers of great local beer crave. Most of all, we hope to provide our readers with the sights, sounds, smells (yes) and tastes of what gives North Carolina an excellent craft beer culture. (While we work through the site's growing pains, we'll also try to cut down on the parentheses...crap)