Craft brewers have been dealing with the business changes caused by COVID in all sorts of creative ways, from new beers and artwork to an increased and improved social media and marketing presence to different ways of getting their creations into the hands of their customers. Aeronaut Brewing in Somerville has started posting a whole […]
Quick programming note before I get started. I am doing a family trip up to Maine later this week, so this will be my last Hoppy Boston post until at least next Thursday. It will be weird doing the Maine trip without all of the brewery stops, but I will still get some excellent beer […]
I had an interesting back-and-forth with a national beer writer on Twitter recently. He wrote an article about being burned out on trying NEIPAs, saying that he has tried so many poorly made versions of the style that it has killed all enthusiasm to keep sampling more. As a New England-centric beer writer I actually […]
When Springdale refreshed their brand at the beginning of the year it was clear that they were focused on establishing some core flagship beers, including popular staples like Pearly Wit and Brig Stout, along with their new Springdale IPA that I wrote about last month. The exceptions to this focus on core beers are from […]
Lager fans can be extremely particular, especially with “non-traditional” lager styles. While the American craft beer movement was built and has thrived on making ales that defy tradition, many lager enthusiasts prefer their lagers to fit into traditional style guidelines, and many lager-centric brewers are also focused on capturing the essence of the European lagers […]
Every brewery that has a taproom should be constantly sharing their in progress and experimental recipes with their customers as a way to get feedback and optimize the recipes ahead of a widespread release. One of the most fun things about visiting taprooms is trying a variety of beers, including beers that aren’t available outside […]
As I mentioned in my article on Monday, I don’t have a ton to say about beer right now, and it feels a little weird writing about beer with everything going on in the country. That being said, I am going to try and keep knocking out some content, hopefully people can accept it as […]
Very few breweries hit their stride right away, there is a learning curve as brewers work with new recipes, new equipment, and balancing all of the demands of the business. Some never improve, they just keep pumping out the same mediocre beer, while others are so far away to start that even improvement doesn’t get […]
I was following a discussion the other day on beer twitter about which beer styles seemed to be fading away due to lack of popularity. The conversation centered on usual suspects that used to be very popular with craft brewers but have lost steam in the hop-centric age of modern craft, styles like brown ale, […]
There are some regions of the state where I frequent and others I rarely visit, and this absolutely affects my ability to visit certain breweries, especially while I am in the parenting-young-kids stage of life. I live in Metrowest, work in Cambridge, and have family on the north shore, so I occasionally have a chance […]
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