The Flying Saucer’s beer education

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If you would have asked Josh Munck a few months ago what his favorite beer was, he would have had a simple answer.
“Too easy,” Munck said.  “Coors Light, that’s the only beer I drank. I go to college.”
But things have changed since he turned 21 and started frequenting [...]

Mystery Beer Night at The Goat

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In his five years as a bar owner in Raleigh, Brandon LaRoque has learned a lot of important lessons. This is one of them.
“Everyone has an opinion about how you should run your bar and I’ll tell you, 99 percent of them are bad ideas,” LaRoque said. “But if [...]

Beer an ‘affordable luxury’ in tough times

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For Americans who have any money in the stock market, plan to retire eventually, have any loans, at least occasionally fill up their gas tanks, have any money in the bank or otherwise make up some part of the country’s incredibly complex economy, it seems like the sky is [...]

Raleigh’s beer geek hideout

Horniblow’s Tavern isn’t the kind of place you just stumble upon.
Getting to the bar’s location off Capital Boulevard inside the Beltline requires beer pilgrims to travel down a derelict side street of Atlantic Avenue. Heading there from Raleigh, you pass, in this order, a 24-hour porn shop, a trash dump and an adjacent fenced-in lot [...]