June 28, 2022
What’s the hippest, coolest, most impressive brewery/restaurant/entertainment complex in West Virginia? It’s Big Draft Brewing for the win. Now one year old, this brewery is West Virginia’s best example of local craft beer flexing its economic and community development muscle—using… Continue Reading…
June 22, 2022
Weathered Ground Brewery never slows it’s impressive string of unique and extremely interesting beer releases. They are a shining star in West Virginia for creative, tasty beers. The Brilliant Stream crew dropped by there the other day and found a… Continue Reading…
Breweries • Craft Beer • News • West Virginia
June 20, 2022
The story of Clendenin Brewing Company begins in 2017 following the big Elk River flood of June 2016 that had devastated Clendenin’s business community. You see, Clendenin is the hometown of hospitality industry entrepreneurs Matt and Nikki Holbert, who both… Continue Reading…
June 17, 2022
The West Virginia Beer Roads crew met with Lisa and Derek Godwin, two of the founding owners of the new Fife Street Brewing in downtown Charleston. We got their read on what it’s like to open a hot, new small… Continue Reading…
June 16, 2022
It’s widely recognized today that in order to maintain a healthy industry, we need to broaden the appeal of craft beer to more people — to more parts of our society. And it’s not just about business. Welcoming all ethnicities,… Continue Reading…
June 9, 2022
Guest Post by Andrea Fleming, Northern WV Correspondent for Brilliant Stream If you haven’t taken the opportunity to explore the Wheeling area’s brewery scene, you’re missing out. It offers a cool historic vibe and a little something for everyone who… Continue Reading…
June 8, 2022
When a Logan County, West Virginia boy makes good in the competitive craft beer world of the big city, I think that’s news. Alan Gore is that story. Back in the first decade of the 2000s, when he lived in… Continue Reading…
