2022-05-16

American Craft Beer Week 2022

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My experience with microbreweries has been quite a bit more than I ever cared to indulge.

It seems that I would go to places like the now locally defunct Tomato Rumba's Pastaria Grill back in the old Harbison area tromping days and they wanted to show off their microbrewery — then really acted as though my lack of interest were a character flaw or something.

Luckily my meals there ended when I departed the local college instructor circuit and unfortunately, the restaurant ended up closing down ...

With all that microbrewery equipment left over for liquidation. Must have been all of the campy television commercials in the absence of an actual large customer base.

Today is American Craft Beer Week. It runs from May 16 through the 22nd and celebrates craft beer and those people and places that make it. The notion of craft beer, carboys, and alcohol in general is not something I actively pursue.

I think I may be the only one in South Carolina who doesn't like and follow it all. I know several people who are deep in the craft beer phenomenon in the state. It seems as though it kind of exploded in recent history.