Appalachia • Craft Beer • Festivals • Review • Road Trips
August 14, 2019
I may have attended the most significant beer festival of the year last Saturday in Pittsburgh. I’m short of superlatives to adequately describe the super good vibe that Fresh Fest Beer Fest generated.
January 7, 2019
While I’m tickled pink over the progress made by our West Virginia brewing community, that doesn’t mean everything is hunky dory. In a break from Brilliant Stream’s normal promotion of all the good things about WV beer, today the focus… Continue Reading…
August 23, 2018
Wheeling’s Mountaineer Brewfest takes a back seat to no other festival in West Virginia when it comes to supporting local charities. The festival raised an amazing $20,000 last Saturday for the Upper Ohio Valley Sexual Assault Help Center, Inc. In… Continue Reading…
August 2, 2018
Since someone declared this National IPA Day (#IPAday), it seemed like a perfect time to take a look at a few of West Virginia’s premier contemporary examples of the style. While West Virginia brewers have been producing various IPA-style beers… Continue Reading…
May 10, 2018
In America’s rapidly changing beer landscape, breweries often pop up at rate very hard to keep up with. Areas, which just a decade ago had only a handful of breweries, are being transformed into attractive beer destinations. Pennsylvania’s Cumberland Valley… Continue Reading…
February 20, 2018
When I got the news that Lost River Brewing Company closed at the end of January, it started me thinking. Although I only visited there a few times during its roughly nine years of existence, I liked the place. I think… Continue Reading…
February 13, 2018
Last Saturday’s Cabin Fever Craft Beer Fest in Morgantown was not a festival dominated by large national or regional craft beer breweries. In fact, they were non-existent. How impressive it was that over 1,500 people came out to support an… Continue Reading…
