The Cottonwood line is for the craft beer fan. My preference is the Low Country Pale Ale, a pleasantly/lightly hopped session beer. The Endo IPA is also excellent, but, with the recent trend in super-hopped beers, many hopheads will think it's not quite bitter enough.

Other beers worth trying include an American Wheat, Pumpkin Ale (the best pumpkin beer I've had - I know that's not saying much, but this really is a nice beer), the Irish Red, Low Down Brown, Scottish and Frostbite.

On the negative side are the two stouts. The Almond Stout, their most widely available stout (a winter seasonal, I believe), while promising, is slightly overdone on the almond flavoring. Similarly, the Hazelnut Stout contains so much hazelnut flavor as to be almost undrinkable. Really, it's only drinkable when blended with a high percentage of lighter beer (CBC Lighthouse, for example). The Hazelnut Stout is only available at the brewery, as far as I can tell.

The tours on Saturday are great and the folks at CBC have done a nice job on the tap room. The tour is well worth the $5 price tag.

Most all of there beers are excellent. Very friendly staff as well.

I will visit whenever in the vacinity.