BeerBorg

I'm near the Charleston area. Who else do we have that is close by?

I'm in Greenville.

and happy to be here!

Welcome to the forum NoMo

Hello NoMo! Welcome to the BORG!

Beaufort here.

Anyone who is still active on the Borg in South Carolina? Seems like the last posts from most of the above members were many years ago.
I moved to the Charleston area recently. Enjoying the local breweries (although I arrive spoiled by previously living in MA, with relatively-easy access to Tree House, Trillium, and some other top-flight breweries). I wish there were more LHBS's to choose from - the market seems underserved.

Crazy Climber wrote:Anyone who is still active on the Borg in South Carolina? Seems like the last posts from most of the above members were many years ago.
I moved to the Charleston area recently. Enjoying the local breweries (although I arrive spoiled by previously living in MA, with relatively-easy access to Tree House, Trillium, and some other top-flight breweries). I wish there were more LHBS's to choose from - the market seems underserved.

Maybe an opportunity?

bpgreen wrote:

Crazy Climber wrote:Anyone who is still active on the Borg in South Carolina? Seems like the last posts from most of the above members were many years ago.
I moved to the Charleston area recently. Enjoying the local breweries (although I arrive spoiled by previously living in MA, with relatively-easy access to Tree House, Trillium, and some other top-flight breweries). I wish there were more LHBS's to choose from - the market seems underserved.

Maybe an opportunity?

LOL, yes, it's an underserved market from the LHBS perspective. If I was younger, or more financially-independent, or more risk-tolerant, I would consider such a venture. But me...now...not gonna happen.
I will give some props to the one LHBS in the area, they do keep a good selection of ingredients in stock. I don't hear "we're out of that, how about this instead?" nearly as much as I did up in MA.

Crazy Climber wrote:

bpgreen wrote:

Crazy Climber wrote:Anyone who is still active on the Borg in South Carolina? Seems like the last posts from most of the above members were many years ago.
I moved to the Charleston area recently. Enjoying the local breweries (although I arrive spoiled by previously living in MA, with relatively-easy access to Tree House, Trillium, and some other top-flight breweries). I wish there were more LHBS's to choose from - the market seems underserved.

Maybe an opportunity?

LOL, yes, it's an underserved market from the LHBS perspective. If I was younger, or more financially-independent, or more risk-tolerant, I would consider such a venture. But me...now...not gonna happen.
I will give some props to the one LHBS in the area, they do keep a good selection of ingredients in stock. I don't hear "we're out of that, how about this instead?" nearly as much as I did up in MA.

Out of curiosity, where in Massachusetts? I grew up in Illinois, but have brothers, nieces, nephews, etc in the Boston area. On of my brothers and two of my nephews ot the are brewers (although one hasn't brewed in a while due to tinde constraints). I kind of coerced my brother into brewing to keep my mom's kegerator filled, and he involved his son. They're now avid brewers and it's a good father/son bonding activity.

My nephew inherited my mom's kegerator (it was one of the few items she specifically slated for an individual).

That's a cool family brewing story!

I wasn't in the Boston area - I was near Springfield, and the Connecticut border. Folks in the Springfield area tend to identify more with Hartford than Boston, actually. And, we "park our cars" -- we don't "pahk owah cahs."

Crazy Climber wrote: And, we "park our cars" -- we don't "pahk owah cahs."

CC , People think I should sound like Brooklyn because am in NY, I am in the far western part of NY and might have a hard time understanding them in the East. How you doing with the SC twang. It will catch on before you know it....

Crazy Climber wrote:That's a cool family brewing story!

I wasn't in the Boston area - I was near Springfield, and the Connecticut border. Folks in the Springfield area tend to identify more with Hartford than Boston, actually. And, we "park our cars" -- we don't "pahk owah cahs."

I had a project in Springfield about 10 years ago. Flew into Hartford.

There was a huge liquor store out there (Table & Vine? I think ). They probably had 3 or 4 aisles of beer, and one of those aisles probably had more shelf space than the entire state owned liquor store near me. I was just starting to bottle in glass, but didn't have a capper, so I'd buy Fischer and Monchshof (neither is available here) and bring the amber flip tops home. I still have some of those.

I'd also sometimes go to the deposit place and ask if they had amber flippies (they'd often separate them out) and buy them for the deposit cost.

Are you in the insurance industry? That seemed to be the big employer in that area.

berryman wrote:

Crazy Climber wrote: And, we "park our cars" -- we don't "pahk owah cahs."

CC , People think I should sound like Brooklyn because am in NY, I am in the far western part of NY and might have a hard time understanding them in the East. How you doing with the SC twang. It will catch on before you know it....

For years, when I thought of New York, I thought of hills, gorges, etc. I had relatives who lived in Ithaca, and my brother went to college there.

People who equate New York with NYC are really missing out (although NYC has its own allure, just a different one).

I was once on a project in Queens and met some former coworkers for dinner in Manhattan. They told me which subways to take (and the "subways" in Queens would be called els in Chicago) and where to go when I got out.

When I got to the restaurant, I apologized for being late and said the sidewalks were filled with people just standing around going nowhere, just looking around.

They started laughing and told me I'd been a traveling consultant too long.

I had come out of a subway in Times Square, and my only thought was annoyance at people not moving on the sidewalk.

They told me to look around when I went back.

I did. There were lights.

Brian, I know we are getting off topic on original post but enjoy to hear of others travels around the country. I have never been to NYC, but have been in Atlantic City and been to Ithaca many times,and have been out west but not Utah.

berryman wrote:Brian, I know we are getting off topic on original post but enjoy to hear of others travels around the country. I have never been to NYC, but have been in Atlantic City and been to Ithaca many times,and have been out west but not Utah.

I used to spend a lot of time in Provo UT, for work reasons. Back in that time (pre-Olympics) you had to get access to a "private club" to get a beer for the most part. Someone had to sponsor you. I managed to get that to happen and hung out at a little club where all of the "bad" BYU students went. Beer was limited to 3.2%, so you could order a pitcher for yourself and be just fine. You could get ONE beer in a restaurant like TGI Fridays, but even in a place like that the bar was never actually open, it only existed because it was built into the floorplan. If you tried to order a second beer, you would get the stare down like you sprouted devil horns, and they would refuse to serve you. Also, coffee was unavailable there (no hot caffeinated beverages were available) because it was against the religion of folks, and Provo was more then 90% said folks. But Mountain Dew, that was just fine, so everyone who needed a fix, that was the ticket. (they had a revelation of some sort at some point that it wasn't caffeine that was bad, but only hot caffeine, don't ask me to explain, I dunno).

That all said, it was great being able to get up into the mountains in 15 minutes, and it was lovely there, just had to keep an eye out for the random mountain lion (rare to actually see one, but they were there).

As far as Boston, I had to travel there often for work as well. Boston is the only place I've ever been where I could be staying in a hotel where I could literally look out the window and see the place I needed to get to for work, but had to drive 30 minutes to actually get there, because a divided highway separated the two places, and you had to literally get on to it, go to an exit 5 miles away, then get back on to it, go to some other exit 5 miles the other way, and then drive from there to the place intended.

Also 1st time I was in Boston I was in a rental car from VA with summer tires, and it was snowing like mad, and everyone was literally going 70mph out of the airport on a 4+ lane road that narrowed down to 2 lanes into a tunnel that got you outa there, and it was utter madness. Also that trip I was so freaked out from the driving because when I slowed down there was this cop that flashed his lights and told me to drive faster over his mic, that I missed my exit and ended up driving down the coast all the way to Salem wondering WTF Boston went. (pre-GPS times LOL). That was fun.

I've spent a good bit of time around Chautauqua, also have done a lot of Nordic skiing in Allegany State Park / Art Roscoe. I been to pretty much every town around the Finger Lakes in NY just farting around. I love your part of the world.