The website RateBeer.com put out their annual list of the best breweries in the world at the end of January (see the full list HERE). This list is compiled based on the scores given to individual beers by their website users and weighted by a whole bunch of factors that I don’t care to learn. I take […]
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Troegs Nugget Nectar
If you pay attention to the scores and rankings on websites like Beer Advocate and Rate Beer you’ll notice a trend, the “best” beers in the world are almost all incredibly hard to find. If there is a beer that you can grab off the shelf at a local bottle shop it will probably be […]
HoppyBoston Best Beers: Winter 2014/15
This has been kind of a miserable winter in New England with record setting snowfall, a transportation system that is challenging enough under optimum conditions and nearly useless in this weather, and incredible stretches of cold. Fortunately we had some things to celebrate including the holidays and the Patriots’ Super Bowl win. I also found, drank and reviewed a […]
Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout
When I sat down to drink this beer I realized that I had yet to review a selection from Brooklyn Brewery. I am not sure exactly why as I have enjoyed a number of their beers in the past. I do try to focus on New England beers in this blog, but anything that is […]
Hoppy Boston/Hopster’s DIPA
My friend Tom is a fellow craft beer fan and frequent reader of this blog. He read about my two previous experiences brewing beer at Hopster’s Brew and Boards in Newton and wanted to try it out, so we booked a brewing session together. After some back and forth on style we landed on a […]
Berkshire Brewing Brewer’s Choice Series Blonde IPA
It will come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I am fascinated by the way tenured craft breweries are adapting to the changes in the marketplace as well as in consumers’ tastes. While some brewers are still relying on the same beers that they have sold for years, many are brewing new styles to complement […]
Pretty Things Lovely Saint Winefride
There aren’t very many breweries who can (or would) release a beer where the label depicts a woman with a beer in one hand and her own severed head in the other, but Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project is apparently one. In fairness, Lovely Saint Winefride is named after the story of a Welsh abbess whose suitor […]
Brewery Overview: Trillium Brewing Company
Location: Trillium’s taproom is located at 369 Congress St. in the Fort Point neighborhood on the Boston waterfront. It is walkable from South Station and there are a number of bus routes that will get you even closer. Parking in the area can be a little bit of a challenge, but there is some metered parking in […]
Trillium Sinister Kid
This is Trillium week on Hoppy Boston, with a beer review today leading into the second entry in my brewery overview series (hopefully posted tomorrow). It is a fortuitous coincidence that the week I had selected to feature Trillium they come out with some huge news. If you missed it, Trillium is planning on opening […]
Stillwater Lower Dens Re-Mastered with Brett
I am a scientist in the real world, and today I am going to get a little science-nerdy here, so bear with me (or skip straight to the next paragraph to find out how I liked the beer). Most current beers are brewed with yeast strains from the genus Saccharomyces. Even before brewers understood microbiology […]
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