I love a well made bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout as much as anyone, but it is definitely not a unique beer style anymore. When they are well done the combination of bourbon and malt is delicious, but there are way too many mediocre versions on the market. Instead off adding to the glut, I would love […]
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Maine Beer Co. Mean Old Tom
Paste magazine has been running a series of articles where they have a panel of drinkers blind-taste test a number of beers in a particular style and then rate them. I love that the tastings are all blind, it eliminates any preconceptions about what “should be” good so the beers are rated by their flavor not […]
Trillium Scaled Up
I wish I could drink each beer 3-4 times from different batches before I reviewed it. I suppose I could, but it would mean writing far fewer articles. Every so often I try a beer and something about it tastes “off” to me, it can be actual off flavors in the beer (oxidation, contamination, etc.), that the beer was […]
Down The Road Hooligan Nut Brown
Between getting older, drinking less and lack of sleep (the final two directly related to the birth of my son) I have become kind of a lightweight with respect to my alcohol tolerance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing and really doesn’t effect me very often, I just have to be more careful monitoring my intake, […]
A Definitive Ranking of Pretty Things Beers
Over the last 5-6 weeks I have been running a tribute to Pretty Things Beer and Ale project, one of my all-time favorite breweries that recently announced they would be ceasing production and ending the project. As my final article I am doing my first listicle ranking my favorite Pretty Things beers. I included every beer I’ve […]
Ipswich Hop Harvest
At the end of last week I issued a challenge to my readers, stop taking beer so seriously, take a break from the message boards and rating sites, and just have some fun trying some good beers this weekend (full column HERE). There were four potential challenges listed, I accomplished two of them myself. One […]
Beer Bar Review: Brewers Coalition
I haven’t been doing very many bar reviews lately. Part of it is that my wife/beer tasting buddy is taking a 9-ish month break from drinking (for a very good reason), so we’re not exactly going bar hopping right now. In fairness, I have visited a few good bars in recent months and just haven’t gotten […]
If you could have 3 readily available beers perpetually on draft at your house, which would you choose?
Occasionally a great beer can inspire you, and sometimes you don’t even need to drink it. I was browsing through the selection in my fridge the other day and a few of the available choices reminded me of an idea I had this summer for an article, which I then forgot and never got around to writing. […]
Left Hand Oktoberfest
In over a year writing this blog, I have reviewed many beers from breweries all over the US (and a few from other areas of the world). By design I tend to focus on New England beers, and there with so many good choices this keeps me busy. This local-centric approach means that there are some nationally […]
Beer Bar Review: Za, Cambridge
The pairing of food and beer is relatively new, especially compared to classic pairings between various types of food with varietals of wine. This is starting to change with the evolution of gastropubs and the expanded popularity of craft beer as many fine dining restaurants now have well developed beer menus. One type of food that […]
Hoppy Boston 
