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Chad Huskey’s ongo­ing search for the best places to find beer in Maryville

My quest to find beer in Maryville, has taken me back to the 1950s. No, I don’t own a Delorean, and no, even though I keep beg­ging my wife to let me install a Flux Capac­i­tor in our mini­van, she still hasn’t approved. I went back to the 1950s via the more con­ve­nient, Hotrod’s 50’s Diner, near down­town Maryville.

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One of our read­ers wants to know:

Who has the best Chi­nese or Thai food in Knoxville?

“Call it fate, call it luck, call it karma. I believe every­thing hap­pens for a rea­son.” –Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbuster

Let me pref­ace this lit­tle arti­cle, with a short story. Last week right here on the illus­tri­ous Knox­ify com­ments sec­tion, I wrote a quick blurb about a new mar­ket in Maryville and their beer selec­tion. Moments later a mes­sage popped into my inbox from Knoxify’s own CP. He has been try­ing to help me to find a gen­eral direc­tion, for top­ics to write about. Here’s a an excerpt from his email, “Hey buddy, I saw your com­ment and thought, I need to see if Chad wants to write about beer in Down­town, Maryville… what about a series on bars, stores, etc. and their beer selec­tions?”. Now I refer you to the famous quote at the begin­ning of this arti­cle. Why yes, yes I would like to have an excuse to drink beer at a vari­ety of estab­lish­ment, and talk about what all hap­pened the next day. Usu­ally I would call that Mon­day morn­ing, but now I can say, it’s for an arti­cle! Now I under­stand we don’t exactly have dead­lines as far as arti­cles go around here, but don’t think for one sec­ond I won’t even­tu­ally say to my wife, “but dar­ling, I just have to go to that bar with my friends tonight. I have a dead­line, and the loyal Knox­ify read­ers are depend­ing on me!” So with that I say, yes, yes CP, I would like to write about beer selec­tion in Maryville. Now on with the show…

On Sat­ur­day night, 12/12/09, the wife and I ven­tured into down­town Maryville, TN. One of the great things about Knoxville is that not only is Knoxville itself such a great place, but its smack dab in the mid­dle of other great places to be. It’s the epi­cen­ter so to speak. You can reach down­town Maryville in 20 – 30 min­utes from down­town Knoxville. It’s a small lit­tle city but with plenty of char­ac­ter, and it’s slowly start­ing to take a note from our own down­town and revi­tal­iz­ing with new stores, restau­rants, and apart­ments pop­ping up at a reg­u­lar pace. It’s also home, to the huge “Foothills Fall Fes­ti­val” every Octo­ber, that brings vis­i­tors from all over the coun­try, with big names in coun­try music and clas­sic rock fill­ing out the con­cert lineup each year.

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Mr. Bee­son, our famous cof­fee and beer guru, wants to know:

Who has the best beer selec­tion in Knoxville?

Photo by: photo credit: john­paul­goguen

This ques­tion came from one of our Twit­ter fol­low­ers, Shawn Van Dyke.

No mat­ter what part of town you’re in, there always seems to be a really good wine/liquor store close by. Per­son­ally, I ven­ture into Far­ragut Wine & Spir­its and McScrooge’s Wines & Spir­its quite a bit to pick up some tasty vine­yard creations.

In your opin­ion, who has the best wine selec­tion in Knoxville?

Photo by: Mr. T in DC

This is a guest post by Chad Huskey.

I would like to ramble…no actu­ally I think gush would be the appro­pri­ate word. Yup, Gush, I would like to gush for a moment about a cer­tain Knoxville event that is near and dear to my heart. The Knoxville Brew­ers Jam. Just let those words roll off the tip of your tongue, “Knoxville Brew­ers Jam”. Ahhh yes, the hairs on the back of my neck are stand­ing up.

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If you haven’t yet tried jAVERDE cof­fee yet, I promise you you’re miss­ing out!

Brewed locally in Pow­ell, jAVERDE has a ton of fla­vors to sat­isfy any cof­fee lover’s taste-buds. With names like CocoJo, Mahalo Mocha, Shell Shock, Blar­ney Moo, Dream­sip­ple, Munky Chow, Johnny Zap­ple­seed, Jav-O-Lantern, Straw­dairy Sur­prise, and many more, you can be sure you’re not going to find this vari­ety any­where else! And for those of you who just like a nor­mal cup-o-joe, jAVERDE has your more basic blends too!

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Fred­erico Fellini was an idio­syn­cratic Ital­ian film direc­tor renowned for blend­ing fan­tasy and baroque images into his work. A cin­e­matic pio­neer, Fellini cre­ated what critic Robert Richard­son referred to as an “aes­thetic of dis­par­ity” in his films, aban­don­ing tra­di­tional plot and char­ac­ter devel­op­ment in favor of a “dis­parate suc­ces­sion of sequences” to cre­ate a “cumu­la­tive impres­sion.” Fellini left a fas­ci­nat­ing legacy, includ­ing the term “paparazzi” derived from Paparazzo, the pho­tog­ra­pher friend of jour­nal­ist Mar­cello Rubini, played by Mar­cello Mas­troianni in La Dolce Vita, Fellini’s iconic flick. Fellini, who once worked as a clown, died on Hal­loween in 1993.

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Ask the Knox­ify read­ers where their favorite BBQ joint is located and they’ll get ter­ri­to­r­ial on you. Trust us, we know.

Last Fri­day we asked for the (quasi) sec­ond time and almost ten com­ments later we’ve come to real­ize that, for the most part, really good BBQ is located some­where along Mid­dle­brook Pike. Here’s how the read­ers picks tally up.

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Once upon a time an NBC news crew came to town and they were look­ing for BBQ. We put out a dis­patch and our read­ers, YOU, answered the call.

Since then, it seems that more and more BBQ joints have sprung up all over Knoxville.

So, which of those BBQ shops is your favorite?

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