There are so many breweries in New England that it can be hard to keep track of them all. I have been tasting any craft beer I can get my hands on for many years now, but there are still a few local breweries that I have yet to try. While many of these breweries are brand […]
Category: Beer Review
Peak Organic Fresh Cut Pilsner
It’s hot out and I’ve been on a huge pilsner kick recently which will be very obvious as I review a bunch of craft pilsners over the next couple weeks. I love the interesting adaptations on the style made by many American craft brewers. While traditional German/Czech pilsners have more hop flavor than many of the bland American […]
Idle Hands Adelais Pilsner
In the US, pilsner gets kind of a bad name (thank you Miller, Coors and Bud). Most craft beer drinkers in the US prefer big and bold flavors, and the name pilsner recalls the tasteless lagers that get chugged at campus-wide keggers. This is unfortunate, because when they are made correctly a pilsner can be a subtle […]
Traveler Brewing Curious Traveler Shandy
There have been a few distinct trends in craft brewing this Spring and Summer, a clear one is the emergence of the shandy/radler as a popular beer style. These mixtures of beer with soda (typically lemon/lime but there are many variations) are popular in parts of Europe, but they were rare in the US until the last […]
Jack’s Abby Session Rye IPL
Malted rye has been used as an ingredient in beer for centuries, although it fell out of favor as a fermentable due to purity laws restricting the ingredients used in the brewing process in many countries. Recently there has been a renewed interest in brewing with rye malts, mostly due to innovative American craft brewers. While rye has […]
High and Mighty Purity of Essence
High and Mighty Beer Company was founded by Will Shelton in 2006. Will was working with his brother running Shelton Brothers beer importing company when he decided to make and distribute his own beer, in addition to the beers he was importing. By 2008 Will left the importing business to focus exclusively on High and Mighty […]
Allagash/Maine Beer Co/Rising Tide Prince Tuesday
Unlike many industries that focus entirely on competition, craft brewers love to collaborate. Most of the popular craft breweries have brewed collaboration beers, Sierra Nevada is even releasing a 12-pack with twelve different beers each brewed with a different brewery this Summer. In a seminal series of articles Bangor, ME based beer writer Chad Lothian had a group […]
Westfield River Charlie in the Rye IPA
The story behind Westfield River Brewing Company is reminiscent to the way many other small breweries begin – a group of friends hanging out, enjoying great beer, and making grand plans that didn’t include their current jobs. Founded in 2012 in Westfield, MA these friends set out to make a variety of drinkable, but still flavorful beers. A much better plan than […]
Wormtown Hopulence
Recently the results for the United States Open Beer Championships were announced, with over 3000 beers submitted and judged in 81 categories. The winner for Grand National Champion was none other than Wormtown Brewery of Worcester, MA (see the full results HERE). Wormtown was awarded three gold and one silver medal. One of Wormtown’s Gold-medal winning submissions was Hopulence, […]
Saranac Wild Hop Pils
Matt Brewing Company, who brews the Saranac line of beers from their brewery in Utica, NY, is the second oldest family-owned brewing company in the US. While many smaller breweries were taken over or put out of business by the big beer companies during the mid to late 1900’s, Matt Brewing set themselves up as an alternative […]
Hoppy Boston 