I has been an interesting journey for Spencer Brewing, the first American Trappist Brewery. Spencer started with a single beer, their Belgian Pale Ale named Spencer Trappist Ale, and intended to run the brewery on the back of that one beer for a while. They clearly underestimated the obsession with variety and novelty that drives […]
Cape Cod and the islands are quickly becoming a craft beer destination. A number of exciting new breweries have opened on the Cape and some have even expanded distribution up into metro Boston. One newer addition to the Cape Cod brewing scene is Wash Ashore Brewing Company. Wash Ashore was founded by a group of […]
On Monday I wrote a review of a beer from Fore River Brewing out of Maine and discussed my excitement when breweries from other parts of New England extend their footprint into the Boston area. When I was writing my two part series on my favorite NEIPAs in every state in New England I realized […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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