So first off, I need to preface this whole thing by confessing that this write-up for both events is more than overdue. I could say that I’ve been letting my stomach and liver settle from last weekend’s festivities, but that’s not true…not entirely, anyway.
There’s already a lot of reviews of last week’s Cooper-Young Regional Beer Fest out there (all overwhelmingly positive, by the way….and you can go ahead and count this as another one). As you probably already know, the C-Y beer fest stands apart from others in that it exclusively features local and regional breweries (within a day’s drive)—which, in this part of the country, means it’s relatively small. And that’s by no means a bad thing…something to work on, perhaps, but certainly not bad.
Breweries present included our very own Ghost River, Boscos, the Bluff City Brewers and the homebrewing gents from fuzzybrew.com to those hailing from as far away as Asheville, NC (French Broad, Asheville Brewing Company, and Green Man), as well as Louisiana (the very impressive Bayou Tech).