I’ve been on a huge stout kick this month, partially due to St. Patrick’s Day and partially due to the desire to enjoy a bunch of rich dark beer before the weather gets warm and I switch my fridge over to lighter styles. The crazy thing with stouts is how much diversity you can find […]
Yesterday I was thinking about the drinks that often get associated with St Patrick’s day celebrations, at least in the US. Guinness and Irish whiskey are easy choices, they are foundational Irish drinks that have become year-round mainstays in American drink culture. “Green beer”, usually adjunct lagers mixed with green food coloring, are a fully […]
Saint Patrick’s Day is this week, normally a huge day for bars and breweries, but that is obviously still toned down a lot this year due to the continued presence of COVID-19. Hopefully by next year things will be fully back and we can all gather at our favorite local watering holes for pints of […]
It’s been a year of this shit. An entire fucking year. The last day that my family kept a “normal” schedule was March 13th, 2020, I remember well because it was my youngest son’s 2nd birthday, I left work early to grab him from daycare so we could go home for pizza, cake and presents. […]
My beer thoughts and links for February is a little late (obviously), these articles take some time to put together and I am struggling to find time in my schedule for much of anything right now. This article is still a monthly priority though, so I will find a way to keep getting it done, […]
As we approach a full year of social distancing, mask wearing and work/school from home I am thankful for everything my (real-job) company has done to keep employees connected and sane over the last year. Every month or so we get a gift box with themed treats or wellness activities. We also have monthly themed […]
The local craft beer community suffered a big loss on Christmas day when Dave Witham, proprietor and co-founder of Proclamation Ales in Rhode Island, passed away a month after being diagnosed with cancer. He leaves behind a wife and a seven year old daughter, a GoFundMe has been set up to help them during this […]
At one point in my life I really wanted to be a sports writer. I have always loved professional sports, and while my dreams of playing in the NBA flamed out when I got cut from the middle school basketball team in 7th and 8th grade, I thought it would be awesome to cover the […]
As much as I love the Boston area beer scene, and as much fun as I’ve had tasting beers in some other US cities, my favorite beer city by far is Portland (the one in Maine, not the pretender on the West Coast). There are a crazy number of great breweries right in the city […]
After exclamations of joy about surviving 2020 we got into 2021 and January was more of the same in many ways (and even worse in a few). I didn’t really expect life to dramatically change from an arbitrary flip of the calendar, but was hoping there would be a little clearer light at the end […]
Hoppy Boston 