One of the great things about drinking local beer is the amazing charitable work that so many local breweries do in their communities. It is impossible to highlight every instance of this, but I am going to make an additional effort to give props to breweries supporting good causes, especially when the causes have a […]
I think it is important for breweries that have a substantial distribution footprint to still make brewery-only beers. People who take the time to visit the brewery should have something special or unique to try, and it allows the brewery to run some small-batch experiments and get feedback from regular customers. If any of these […]
Last Friday Mystic Brewing in Chelsea announced that they would be closing the brewery and stopping production of the brand’s beers this month, shocking many local beer enthusiasts. Earlier this week I wrote some thoughts on the brewery, their impact on me as a beer geek, and what this means for the local beer scene. […]
In case you missed the big news that dropped on Friday afternoon, Mystic Brewery founder Bryan Greenhagen announced on Facebook and Instagram that he would be closing the brewery and taproom and ceasing production of the Mystic brand of beers. Greenhagen later jumped on a Beer Advocate message board and shared some of the reasons […]
A couple things from me to start: After my visit to Maine at the end of August I knocked out a quick photo-blog of the seven breweries I visited during the trip. I love the idea of doing a photo-blog for a trip like this but wasn’t completely satisfied with how it came out. On […]
I am finally finishing up my series of articles and reviews covering the beers I grabbed on my trip to Maine at the end of August. Good timing too, I am headed back to Maine next week for a big reunion of my college rugby club, and I will absolutely be grabbing some more delicious […]
Craft beer Twitter can occasionally be a cesspool of bad-faith arguments and hype worship, but at it’s best it is a great community of passionate beer fans having interesting and engaging discussions on a variety of topics. One thought-provoking series of recent Twitter threads discussed how you started on your path to becoming a beer […]
There were a number of different breweries that I was excited to check out in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood (and a few that I didn’t get a chance to visit on this trip), but the biggest draw was probably Goodfire Brewing Company. I had heard so many rave reviews about Goodfire’s beers, especially their NEIPAs, […]
My regular readers have probably noticed a little trend in my beer reviews from the last couple weeks. I’ve been trying to write about the majority of the breweries I visited on my trip to Maine at the end of August. It looks like I will wrap up the series just in time for my […]
On my way back from my parent’s house in Maine a couple weeks ago I made a stop in Portland and visited a few breweries in the East Bayside neighborhood, which has quickly grown into another beer hub in a city full of amazing breweries. One of the places I stopped with Lone Pine Brewing. […]
Hoppy Boston 