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Cider-Mead-Wine • Craft Beer • Podcast • West Virginia

Capitol Market shop does beer & wine well

Over the past three decades, the Wine Shop at Capitol Market in Charleston, WV, has offered a superb line up of premium beverages. Keeping it so well curated is the job of shop owner Ted Armbrecht. The West Virginia Beer… Continue Reading…

News • West Virginia

New premium sake enters West Virginia market

What do you know about Sake? “Not much,” is the answer most of us probably give. If your sake experience is limited to downing a few warmed shots of inexpensive sake at Japanese restaurants, then I have news for you.… Continue Reading…

Craft Beer • West Virginia

Variation in hop use continues IPA enthusiasm in WV beer market

It’s been a few years now, but in West Virginia, IPAs still seem to be going strong. It’s not that other beer styles are declining (well, maybe a few are) but it’s that IPAs get relatively more of the market’s… Continue Reading…

Austin Weser, a craft brewer from Morgantown, WV

Breweries • Craft Beer • Podcast • West Virginia

Austin Weser talks West Virginia beer

Probably no other person has brewed at more West Virginia breweries as has Austin Weser. He’s a Morgantown resident who got his original interest in better beer while deployed in Germany with the United States Army. In more recent years,… Continue Reading…

Breweries • Craft Beer • West Virginia

How dry is Dry January

Last week, I stopped in for a quick visit to Fife Street Brewing in Charleston, WV. After sampling one of the latest beers to hit their tap list, I asked Gil Peterson, Fife’s head brewer, about new brews he had… Continue Reading…