Hoppy Boston pale ale month continues with a review of Mo from Maine Beer Company. Mo is a great example of a beer that gets lost a little due to the success of other beers produced by the brewery. Popular IPAs Lunch and Another One typically fly off the shelves, and people sleep in their […]
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Cambridge Brewing Le Saisonniere
More breweries are dabbling in barrel aging, buying up used wine or spirit barrels and filling them with all types of beer. While the most common barrel aged beer is still the bourbon barrel aged imperial stout, you are starting to see a whole variety of beer and barrel combinations hit the shelves and taps. I am […]
Long Trail Stand Out
One of the reasons that I enjoy single hop beers (or other beers that showcase a particular hop variety) is my love of homebrewing. I enjoy developing my own brewing recipes, but I occasionally get stuck in a rut with my hop selections. I have a few standout hop varieties that I tend to use in […]
Devil’s Purse Skywave
One of the most recent breweries to start distributing to the Boston area is Devil’s Purse Brewing Company out of South Dennis, MA on Cape Cod. Devil’s Purse has a similar origin to most small breweries in the US, two friends started homebrewing as a hobby and it quickly became a passion and eventually a business. Devil’s […]
14th Star Valor Ale
Many breweries start with some version of a standard story, a few friends who are avid home-brewers get together, experiment with some recipes and jot down a business plan that slowly builds into the opening of the brewery. 14th Star Brewing Company in St. Albans, VT has a similar story but with a little twist, the planning started in […]
Ipswich Original Ale
My wife and I have spent the last few months house hunting. Now that the baby is pushing a year old and is moving all over the place apartment living isn’t working for us anymore, so we are ready to pack up and move to the suburbs. I guess I am officially old. It looks like […]
Trillium Free Rise Dry-Hopped with Citra
One of my favorite non-traditional beer styles are saisons brewed with substantial additions of New World hops. Some traditionalists scoff at Belgian IPAs/hoppy saisons, but I find these complex and flavorful beers to be interesting and often delicious. Traditional Belgian saison yeast strains contribute a boutique of fruity flavors and aromas to the beer via byproducts in the […]
Berkshire Brewing Steel Rail Extra Pale Ale
Hoppy Boston’s pale ale month continues with a classic local take on the style, Steel Rail Extra Pale Ale from Berkshire Brewing Company in South Deerfield, MA. Berkshire Brewing has been producing a variety of ales in western Massachusetts since 1994, and Steel Rail is their flagship beer. If you bring up BBC to most […]
Night Shift Whirlpool
Spring is here (according to the calendar, you wouldn’t know it with the snow storm in Boston today) and I am starting to turn my fridge over to favor lighter bodied and hoppier offerings. To get that process going I have selected American pale ales as the style of the month for April. The APA style can be […]
Victory Golden Monkey
My final review for tripel month is Golden Monkey from Victory Brewing Company in Pennsylvania. I came up a little short on examples this month, I think it is clear that more breweries need to give this style a shot. It is funny how a beer’s name can result in immediate preconceptions about the flavor. […]
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