Great Divide has been brewing tasty beer in Denver, Co since 1994, and now distributes their products across the country. One of the features of many of Great Divide’s beers is barrel aging, where the beer is moved to wooden barrels after initial fermentation and before bottling/kegging. This technique has been used for years for […]
Category: Beer Review
Maine Beer Company Peeper Ale
I have a soft-spot for the state of Maine, and pretty much everything from Maine, it is where I was born, raised and went to college. Maine has had a small but strong stable of craft breweries for years now, and the explosion of interest in craft beer has definitely reached the state, leading to […]
Slumbrew Sittin on Hop of the World
Slumbrew, AKA the Somerville Brewing Company makes a variety of artisanal ales in their brewery in Somerville, MA. The “slumbrew” moniker is derived from the old “Slummerville” nickname for Somerville, which is funny now that the town has undergone a major revitalization, with the Davis, Porter and Union Square now go-to locations for nights out. […]
Blue Hills Brewery Black Hops Black IPA
Blue Hills Brewery makes a variety of ales and lagers from their brewery in Canton, MA. Named after the hills on the South shore of Massachusetts, they run tastings out of their brewery on Fridays and Saturdays, plus you can find their beer in bottles and on draft. Black Hops is a black IPA, one […]
Harpoon Saison Various
The Harpoon brewery is a staple of the Boston beer scene. Established in 1986 on the Boston waterfront they have become one of the biggest and most successful craft breweries in the country. It is hard to find a bar in Boston that doesn’t serve their popular English style IPA, unfiltered UFO beers, as well […]
Sam Adams Octoberfest
The focus of this blog is going to be new and exciting beers, but occasionally I’ll take a detour and review an old reliable standby, a beer that has been out for years, but you still want to go back to every once in a while and enjoy. Sam Adams has many of these beers, […]
Jack’s Abby Pro-Am Pilsner
Jack’s Abby believes in lager. Lagers use bottom fermenting yeast that give the best results at low temperatures over longer times, but provide beers with crisp, clean flavors that highlight the ingredients used. Jack’s Abby has re-imagined the lager style, brewing everything from traditional German styles to highly hopped lagers that are really a new […]
Pretty Things/Yeastie Boys Our Turn Your Turn
With their interesting takes on traditional British, Belgian and American styles Pretty Things beer and ale project has emerged as one of the most popular microbreweries in the Boston area. Technically they aren’t a microbrewery, as there is no physical brewery (the beer is contract brewed at Buzzard’s Bay brewery in Westport, MA), thus the […]
Review: Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA
Smuttynose Brewing company has been making quality beer in Portsmouth, NH since 1994, specializing in traditional English ales. With the explosion in popularity of craft beers Smuttynose has branched out with their big beer series as well as inventive seasonal brews. Smuttynose beers are now distributed up and down the East coast and into the […]
Review: Magic Hat Ticket to Rye
Vermont has become a haven for innovative microbreweries, and one of the founders of this movement is Magic Hat brewing company, which has been brewing in South Burlington since 1994. Magic Hat brews popular year-round beers, such as their ubiquitous #9, as well as seasonals and single batch beers. With the growing popularity of microbrews […]
Hoppy Boston 