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 […]
Category: Beer Review
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 […]
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 […]
Aeronaut A Session With Dr. Nandu
My wife and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary this week. Well, “celebrated” might be a slight exaggeration, with our little guy around and not much for babysitting options yet we didn’t exactly go out and light the town on fire. Instead we did lunch at the always delicious Redbones BBQ with our son in tow, […]
Allagash Confluence 2015
The Maine beer scene is thriving. There is amazing buzz around many Maine breweries and the wide array of beers they are producing. When I visit Maine I always have a laundry list of breweries I want to visit and beers I want to try, and some of them are definitely selected based on hype generated through social media and conversations […]
Bissell Brothers The Substance
I believe that the best way for a small brewery to stand out in the increasingly competitive beer market is to focus on one type of beer at the outset, and perfect that particular style. Usually this means one category, for example; hop-forward beers, Belgian ales, lagers, session beers, etc. Bissell Brothers Brewing in Portland, ME […]
Foundation Epiphany
During my recent trip to Maine I was able to visit an array of breweries, but there were a few I was disappointed to miss. The sheer number of breweries that line the Maine coastline is impressive, and it is hard to balance visits to old favorites along with checking out new spots. One favorite that […]
Hoppy Boston 