The Need For Speed
Inaugural Charleston’s Fastest Bartender Contest held Monday Nights in October at Ireland’s Own Irish Pub by Lorne Chambers | Editor For the first time ever, The Fastest Bartender Contest is coming to Charleston thanks to two-time national champion Billy Reilly,...
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Middleton Place Strikes Gold
Visitors are invited to take part in the centuries-old tradition of rice cultivation in the Lowcountry this Frifday and Saturdfay, April 24-25, as Middleton Place plants the demonstration rice field. Costumed interpreters will instruct guests in traditional methods of...
The Beers of Winter Past
It never fails. Ever fall and winter, I buy tons of beer. Pumpkin beers, Christmas ales, Baltic porters, Imperial stouts, I buy them all. Yearly seasonal beers that will only be around for a month. These are the special brews and I have to have them. But, you can only...
Smokin' For the Holmes Team
It’s not often that you get two competing businesses together for a singular cause. But a positive, fun loving 5-year-old boy with brain cancer has done just that. This Saturday, April 11, Home Team BBQ will team up with fellow West Ashley barbecue restaurant Swig...
Aim For Balance
It’s been said “all things in moderation.” While there are worse words to live by, I think that overindulgence on occasion is no bad thing. An extra long vacation? A large, multi-course meal? Sleeping 10 hours? An extra beer or two? Some of these hedonistic moments...
Tabbuli Names New Executive Chef
Lisa Sheldon has been named executive chef of Tabbuli, a Mediterranean eatery and hookah lounge with locations on Market Street in downtown Charleston and the newly-opened location on Savannah Highway in West Ashley. Sheldon brings more than two decades of experience...
Think Globally, Eat Locally
As part of the 4th Annual Eat Local Month, sign up is now open for Lowcountry Local First’s Eat Local Challenge, which will take place during the month of April and is open to businesses and individuals. The goal of the Eat Local Challenge is to help consumers make...
Brewsday Tuesday and Wine Down Wednesday Return
This spring, Old Towne Creek County Park is set to be the perfect after-work spot for socializing. The popular Wine Down Wednesday series returns for the first event of 2015 on Wednesday, April 1, and the Brewsday series kicks off Tuesday, April 7. Old Towne Creek...
Creative Drinking
I’m consistently a fan of balanced, red-to-amber beers. I always have been. Those balanced beauties, exhibiting both bitterness and richness in harmonious solidity is often a go to for me. Be they the malt-driven amber lagers and ales of the fall and winter variety,...
Schwarzbier & Spring
As temperatures begin to rise, and days lengthen, it might be time to lighten up, however slightly, your beer choice. A great option for a beer that is lighter in body, but full on taste comes from Germany, and fits nicely into a brisk March or April day. Schwarzbier,...
Turning Back the Clock
In 1974 Steve Miller Band had a hit with The Joker, Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles was tops at the box office, Gerald Ford had just taken office, and pizza and beer were cheap. This Saturday, in honor of the year the very first Mellow Mushroom opened in Atlanta, Mellow...
