I often get asked about my excitement level when a regional brewery expands distribution into Massachusetts, and I am usually pretty indifferent. I focus almost all of my drinking on local beer (local to me means New England), so I haven’t even tried a beer from many new-to-the-area breweries like Toppling Goliath. The one exception is when a […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about how prevalent the IPA style (and it’s various sub-styles and varieties) has become in craft beer. A number of breweries that started focused entirely on Belgian styles, barrel aged beers or traditional lagers have given in and started brewing hop-bomb IPAs (or hoppy lagers that are essentially IPAs with a […]
I did a two part article for The Full Pint covering the New England Style IPAs you need to try from every state in New England. Check out both pieces below and let me know which NEIPAs are your favorites from every state! Part One covers beers from Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire Part Two […]
I was really excited when Barrel House Z launched, I loved the idea of a brewery focused on a wide variety of barrel aged beers. I feel like this is an under-explored area, there are a ton of bourbon barrel aged stouts but there are so many other potential combinations of beer style and barrel variety. […]
It is interesting seeing the city of Somerville become a craft beer destination. My first “real” apartment (after a brief summer sublet) in metro Boston was outside of Davis Square, I have a lot of good memories from the three years in my early 20’s when I was a resident of that area. None of them involved local […]
It has been an eventful month for Night Shift Brewing. First they launched their new light lager Nite Lite in cans, with the goal of syphoning business away from the big macro brands. It will be very interesting to see what kind of sustained market that beer attracts. Next they announced that they are opening […]
I wrote a piece asking the question Can Craft Brewers Expand Their Market Share by Brewing Light Lagers? People seemed pretty pumped about the release of Night Shift’s Nite Lite, we’ll see how much the enthusiasm translates into consistent sales. I linked to a number of other articles on this phenomenon at the end of the piece, […]
Happy Mass Beer Week! I hope everyone is celebrating the week by enjoying some delicious local beer and sharing your favorite selections on social media using #MassBeerWeek. There is some more information on special events all week HERE. Due to the current insanity that is my life I doubt I’ll make it to any events this week, […]
I mentioned earlier this week that I rarely make it to beer releases due to massive constraints on my time caused by family, work and life. One reason that I failed to mention, but probably tops the list, is that I refuse to wait in line for beer. If a brewery is doing a big release that […]
I don’t make it to very many bottle releases. Life is incredibly crazy with the new baby plus work, a toddler and everything else that goes into being a mildly functional human being, so making it to a specific brewery on a bottle release day is rarely in the cards. I’ve been fortunate to mix in a […]
Hoppy Boston 