Waking Up In a Brewery

01/05/2026

New Year! New shirt! Crack a Cold One!

Buy merchandise from Pop a Cold One. Featuring Solid Black Blend Premium Unisex Tees, professionally printed in the USA.

12/25/2025

3 Tennessee breweries are in this article. Peaceful Side Brewery, Gatlinburg Brewing Company, and Wiseacre Brewing Company

The World Beer Cup, Great American Beer Festival and US Beer Open are three of the most prestigious beer competitions. Here are the lagers that won top honors at them.

10/29/2025

We keep ending up here for the wonderful "bird" watching (and beer!) We have seen the pelidragon, and now the bumblegoose!

10/28/2025

10/26/2025

New shirt coming soon!

10/26/2025

Loving every beer out of this brewery! Enjoying this stout brewed with English and German malts along with Tanzanian Peaberry coffee.

10/24/2025

Baltergeist, baby! Check out this delicious Mexican hot chocolate stout with guajillo, ancho, and habañero peppers, cinnamon, Dutch chocolate, Madagascar bourbon vanilla, and Three Bears Coffee in the NEW Balter Society Member glass!

10/18/2025

Johnson City Brewing Boone's Creek!

10/18/2025

Going to a wedding today, but since it's nearby, I think we're going to have to stop in to Johnson City Brewing Company !

09/27/2025

Hoppy Possum: Southern Brewers Cup
Another successful year!

09/17/2025

09/11/2025

Hey all! This is Chris.
I hate making posts like this, but here it goes.
At the end of this year, I will be leaving the Waking Up In A Brewery Podcast. It wasn't an easy decision to come to and I've been back and forth for this entire year.
Over the past 5 years of doing the show, I've got to meet so many amazing people, see amazing things and go amazing places. In short, it's been AMAZING.
I will still be involved with craft beer in some fashion or another, mostly drinking, and I will also be involved in podcasting as well. As you all know, I've always got something to say.
In fact, I will be putting my time and efforts into A Gentleman's Gathering Podcast. This has been something that I've started before, and I think it's needed more than ever before. This Podcast will focus on men's health, physical, mental, emotional and societal. We will also try to answer some of the questions women have about men in a clinical and practical way. In fact, we will have a clinical men's therapist on the show!

This doesn't mean that Waking Up In A Brewery will end. Alex may continue it. It will still be the umbrella company that other podcasts and content will be done under. Additionally, this has nothing to do with my relationship with Alex Stokes or Kayla Travis. I am still married to one and best friends with the other. Lol. Please continue to support all of our content! Thank you again for all of the good times over the years and hit me up to have beers! CHEERS!🍻🍻🍻