Category: Beer News

  • Schulz Brau and Nico Schulz

    They say you can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy.  Sometimes, I guess, that means habits, and sometimes it may refer to the native accent.  The degree to which that is true varies widely, I suspect; but I’m betting that the old saw’s veracity…

  • Oskar Blues

    At the end of the day or mug or keg, what really draws us to any frothy beverage is the quality of its flavor.  Of course, all things being equal, we always prefer beer that is handmade, that honors tradition and that is brewed close to home.  But, in addition to all that, there’s another…

  • Yellowhammer Brewing – Featured Brewery

    It is an unfortunate truth that many Tennesseans regard some of our neighbors to the south as less than friendly.  Perhaps it’s a persecution complex, an enduring legacy of a long tradition of gridiron rivalry fueled by fears of more than one Red menace.  These things are difficult to understand, but they can’t be good…

  • Yee Haw Brewing

    Whenever we sit down to talk about featured beers and the name Yee-Haw comes up, it feels like we’re talking about an old friend.  Perhaps it’s because we’re thinking fondly of our former downtown neighbors, Yee Haw Industries, or perhaps it’s just because we like Yee-Haw beer so much that we can’t imagine life without…

  • Terrapin Brewing

    The proliferation of food broadcasting has produced a variety of results in both the marketplace and our minds.  Some, like Guy Fieri’s restaurant food excesses, aren’t particularly thrilling; others, like a general upswing in flavor curiosity, are pretty exciting.  Of course, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what’s responsible for the pursuit of unusual or exotic…

  • American Craft Beer Week

    Here at Tomato Head, keeping track of food holidays is something of a hobby.  Sometimes we decide to write about the day, and other times, we just giggle at some of strange things that get recognized – like National Raisin and Spice Bar Day or even National Liver and Onions Day. Some holidays are strangely…

  • Hi-Wire Brewing – Featured Brewery

    On October 26, 2015, the world was changed, and it was good. At least, that’s true for the beer-isphere, because that’s the day when Hi-Wire Brewing announced that their Big Top production facility was on-line and would soon make it possible for Tennesseans to enjoy their beer without a commute to Asheville. Before the Big…

  • Calfkiller Brewing – Featured Brewery

    As breweries become more of a fixture on the urban landscape, it’s refreshing to find one that’s close to home but situated smack dab in the middle of a picture perfect vision of bucolic Tennessee.  Located in Sparta, which is just about an hour and a half from Knoxville and almost due south of Cookeville,…

  • January’s Featured Brewery: Devils Backbone Brewing Company

    Lexington, Virginia is situated in Rockbridge County about 300 miles northwest of Knoxville; as driving goes, it’s a fairly straight 4 hour drive trip up I-40 and I-81. There are more than a handful of reasons to make that trip, especially if you’re a Civil War buff; both Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are…

  • December’s Featured Brewery: Blue Pants Brewery

    This month Tomato Head taps will be flowing with craft beers made just about 4 hours south of us in Madison, Alabama from the Blue Pants Brewery. Madison is a fast growing and prosperous city in the Hunstville Metropolitan Area, and, from all indications, it’s a forward thinking, can-do kind of place; that attitude is…