Welcome Balter Brewing!

The Knoxville beer scene has literally exploded with new breweries these past few years with double that in the planning phase.   Is is possible that we might become the Asheville of Tennessee??  Coming around the bend in the next year or so the beer laws will change to make it much more beneficial and legal for existing breweries to delve into the high gravity beer world and that equals flavor to the extreme for us.  For the most part these new brew consuming locations are just that, beer only with the occasional food trucks, which is not a bad thing by far.  We do have one new brewpub that is in the works as we speak.  Be prepared to balter when you hear what is in store for Knoxville, and if you do not know what to balter means read on.

Snob Rob and I had the pleasure to share a few pints with Blaine, the brains behind the brewpub plans and his father David Wedekind, who is helping make it all happen.  The first thing I noticed about this beer family is the excitement they feel in t

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