Brewers cannot flee Tennessee fast enough these days. Avery is the latest brewer and fourth major craft brewer to shove off. Like so many things, it seems like a lifetime ago when I drank Salvation and The Reverend as regularly as my roommate drank Budweiser. After a particularly bad breakup, I drove to the Sharon Square Carryout for a bottle of Reverend, Avery's Belgian quad. It might the night end faster, and with a lot less pain.
Others were just as effective. White Rascal always livened up a row of taps, and Maharajah could sway anyone on the merits of Imperial IPA.
Sentimentality aside, Tennessee threatens to become a no man's land for craft beer. We got New Belgium in the past year while losing Great Divide, Boulevard (Kansas City), Dogfish Head, Terrapin (Athens, Ga.) and now Avery.
It makes one know better than to hope for O'Dells, Bells, Great Lakes or Allagash to enter the market. If they can see the line of flight, they won't waste their resources to beat the nation's second-highest alcohol tax.
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