While I have reviewed a number of beers by Otter Creek on Hoppy Boston I haven’t spent much time on Wolaver’s Organic Ales. The beers in the Wolaver’s line are all brewed and bottled at the Otter Creek Brewery in Middlebury, VT, but sold under a different label. Wolaver’s was the first certified organic brewery […]
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Lagunitas Day Time
It seems like Lagunitas Brewing Company is constantly embroiled in controversy. Many of these controversies are started by founder Tony Magee, who is never afraid to speak his mind, especially on twitter. In late 2013 he called out Sam Adams, claiming their new Rebel IPA was an attempt to attack Lagunitas’ marketshare and take over their […]
Narragansett Autocrat Coffee Milk Stout
I don’t often discuss the cost of beer on this blog, I try to focus on taste alone. I am lucky, I have a good job and an understanding wife who knows that trying new beer and writing about it is my hobby. Other hobbies could be much more expensive, so she rarely complains when I […]
Craft Beer Trophy Hunters
There is a topic in the beer world that has been bothering me for a while and I’ve been working on a way to put it into words. It’s been a little bit of a struggle to find exactly how to write this piece in a way that is more constructive than harsh. I’m going […]
H2H Beer Review: Porter, Henniker Working Man’s Porter vs. Smuttynose Robust Porter
When I review beers for this blog I try to cover breweries from all over New England, although beers that are distributed to the Boston area tend to be the focus for practical reasons. With all of the renowned breweries in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont it is easy to occasionally overlook the brewing scene in New Hampshire. New Hampshire […]
Mystic Melissa
While many people spent Sunday, February 1st preparing for the Super Bowl, many craft beer enthusiasts were also celebrating International Gruit Day. Gruits are an interesting style, they are beers brewed without hops, using other herbs and spices for flavor and balance. For centuries beer was made with a wide variety of ingredients including local blends of spices used […]
A Perfect Beer For Every Type of Person at Your Super Bowl Party
Sunday is the Super Bowl, an unofficial American holiday where you get together with friends and family, make enormous portions of delicious food, and try to forget the horrible year the NFL has had. A huge part of the celebration is beer. Super Bowl Sunday is one of the biggest beer-drinking days of the year. […]
Slumbrew Yankee Swap 2014
The final beer review in Hoppy Boston’s barrel-aged beer week is Yankee Swap 2014, Slumbrew’s imperial stout aged in rum barrels from Turkey Shore distilleries. The first iteration of Yankee Swap (2013) used the same type of barrels, but was a completely different beer, an American strong ale instead of an imperial stout. I was a little […]
Jack’s Abby Barrel Aged Framinghammer
Hoppy Boston’s barrel aged beer week continues with a review of the bourbon barrel aged version of Jack’s Abby’s popular Framinghammer Baltic Porter. First, a quick clarification on the Baltic Porter style as I’ve seen some confusion in the past. Traditional versions of British porters are ales with top-fermenting yeast and warmer fermentation temperatures. Heavy versions of the style were […]
Cambridge Brewing Company You Enjoy My Stout
Barrel aging, where a beer is transferred into a barrel that had been previously used to age wine or liquor, has become a major part of many craft brewers’ repertoires. While aging sour beer styles in barrels has been done for centuries, many U.S. brewers have started aging some of their bigger beers in liquor barrels. The most popular style in […]
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