Earlier this week Andy Crouch wrote an extensive article on Boston Beer Company/Sam Adams, their founder Jim Koch, and the company’s place in the current craft beer scene. I highly recommend reading the article if you haven’t (find it HERE), it provides a number of different perspectives on the brewery, it’s history and the changing […]
Category: Opinion
Some changes to Hoppy Boston in 2015
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. I’ve always thought it was a very arbitrary thing, if I need to make some changes in my life why should I wait until the new year? So take it as a coincidence that I am announcing some changes to the blog during the first week in January. I am […]
Local Beers To Pair With Every Course This Thanksgiving
You know craft beer has taken a big step forward when a number of national newspapers and other publications are posting articles about how well beer can pair with a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I find that angle pretty obvious, of course you can drink beer instead of wine at Thanksgiving dinner! Instead I am going to try and […]
What is the Best Brewery in Massachussetts?
Today Gary Dzen published a piece in the Globe on Trillium Brewing Company in Fort Point, and named it the best brewery in Massachusetts (find it HERE). I thought this was a pretty bold “hot take” as there are so many great breweries in Mass now it makes it hard to pick any one as the […]
Pretty Beer and Dirty Lines
Apparently late last night Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project’s Dann Paquette went on a bit of a rant on twitter using the @PrettyBeer account. The topic: the illegal practice of brewers and distributors paying bars to stock their beer on draft. Draft lines are a limited commodity in any bar and restaurant. For a […]
What I’m Drinking: Fall 2014
I love Fall. The weather gets cooler without being too cold, football is on every Sunday, and I start eating hearty food and drinking darker beer. The one issue I run into: I don’t like pumpkin beer. This isn’t a soap-box moral opposition thing, I have no problem with the concept of pumpkin beer, I just don’t like that profile […]
Hoppy Boston Turns One Year Old
Today is officially the one year anniversary of the launch of Hoppy Boston. I had a number of reasons for starting the blog. 1) I was a little overwhelmed by the selection of beers and wanted a reason to sample as many different releases as I could. 2) I wanted to spend more time thinking about what […]
I don’t wait in line for beer.
A couple weeks ago Maine Beer Company released their limited edition double IPA, Dinner, at their brewery in Freeport. The brewery opened at noon, and according to multiple sources people started to line up at the door before 8 AM in anticipation of this release. On a Thursday. I love Maine Beer Company’s beers. I […]
Hoppy Boston on Gourmandatory
Exciting news! This month will see the launch of Gourmandatory.com, a new website reporting the latest and greatest in restaurants, food and drinks. Gourmandatory will have a main page as well as location-specific pages starting with Boston, New York and Maine. As part of this new venture Hoppy Boston will be writing a craft beer column […]
Pumpkin Beer in July
Over the last couple weeks I’ve started to see it creep into social media messages and show up on local liquor store shelves. A number of breweries have released their pumpkin and Fall seasonal beers already. In July. The middle of the summer by pretty much any definition, yet these brewers and distributors think it’s time […]
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