It is amazing how many new beers come out every month, it is hard to keep track and nearly impossible to try them all. A segment of the beer culture seems to over-emphasize what is new over what is good, and many breweries are taking advantage by releasing a constant stream of rotating, small batch, seasonal, and one-off brews. […]
Author: ryanbrawn
Night Shift Maracuya
The business world can be brutally competitive. In most industries each company views any other business that produces a similar product or service as a potential threat. An immense amount of effort is spent on protecting business secrets and trying to corner as large a share of the market as possible. When a competitor falls on hard times it is […]
Enlightenment Things Are Beautiful
A few weeks ago I shared the news that Idle Hands was closing their Everett Brewery due to the loss of the building as a result of the new casino construction. While Idle Hands is keeping their brand going by guest brewing at Night Shift, this also effects the Enlightenment Ales brand. Over a year ago Idle […]
RiverWalk Screen Door
I love it when breweries start to bottle or can their beers. To be perfectly honest I am not a huge fan of growlers. You need to drink them quickly, especially once they are open, and 64 oz. (or even 36) is a pretty big commitment. If I visit a brewery and they have cans or […]
Lord Hobo Brewing Boom Sauce
Happy National IPA Day (not that I need a silly made-up holiday in order to enjoy a delicious IPA)! Are you are unclear as to why this ultra-popular beer style needs any help with promotion? So am I, but it doesn’t mean I won’t celebrate with a delicious hop-forward beer tonight. There are a ton of good to great […]
Jack’s Abby/Otter Creek Joint Custody
If you didn’t know, my “real world” job is as a research chemist – blogging about beer doesn’t pay the bills unfortunately. My time as a scientist has taught me how important collaboration is. Every person I work with has different skills and experience. They bring ideas to the table that help the group innovate, learn […]
Olde Burnside Brewing Penny Weiz
I don’t have a dedicated beer fridge (yet), so every so often a beer or two gets lost in the shuffle of bottles that move in and out of the fridge in my apartment. I tried to sample and review all of the beers from my June trip to Connecticut before moving onto the beers […]
Homebrew Recipe: Hoppy Boston Mosaic Saison
I took a little bit of a break from homebrewing, but I am happy to say I finally jumped back on the wagon. I did brew two batches of beer at Hopster’s relatively recently, but it’s been over a year since I brewed beer at home. The major reason for the break was that my wife was pregnant, and then we […]
White Birch Raspberry Berliner Weisse
For many years I was adamantly opposed to fruit-flavored beers. Part of my hesitancy was definitely due to a belief that beers brewed or infused with fruit were for people who didn’t really like the flavor of beer. Many of the readily available fruit beers supported this assumption, they were light ales with heavy additions of cloying fruit […]
Brooklyn Brewing Sorachi Ace
The term “local” is used constantly when it comes to beer, to the point that there is some backlash against local-centric beer culture. Just because a beer is local doesn’t mean it’s good, and the term local is also very vague. Local beer will always be a relative term, whether it’s a beer brewed in your town, in your […]
Hoppy Boston 