I drink beers in a whole range of styles, but my favorite style by-far is IPA. I’m a hop-head, haze bro, and every other term you can find for a lover of hop-forward beers. With that being the case, some may find it interesting that one of my all time favorite breweries is Allagash Brewing […]
Tag: Belgian IPA
Brewery Extrava Tripel and Tessera 1
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 […]
Two Roads/Lawson’s Finest Liquids Typecast
Even with the massive popularity of taprooms there are still a large number of breweries who rely on contract brewing, where they rent space and time at a larger brewery to produce and package their beer. Most contract breweries don’t have a set location, all of their beer is sold through distribution. Recently some breweries […]
RiverWalk Farm to Kettle 2015
The discussion of fall seasonal beers typically revolves around pumpkin beers and Oktoberfests, which is interesting because these two styles both lack the big hop flavors that dominate the current beer scene. This is why its no surprise that another fall style that is quickly gaining popularity is fresh hopped beers. Hops are harvested in the fall and most […]
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 […]
Cambridge Brewing Company The Audacity of Hops
The Cambridge Brewing Company was the first craft brewpub in Greater Boston. They opened in 1989 with the goal of making an alternative to the mass-produced macro-lagers that dominated the market. For 22 years the only way to sample the wide range of beers produced by The Cambridge Brewing Company was to head to their brewpub in Kendall […]
Enlightenment Illumination Farmhouse IPA
Enlightenment Ales made local headlines in December when they announced a merger with Idle Hands Brewing of Everett, MA. Under the agreement beer would still be brewed under both labels, but the owners of Idle Hands would take over the business end while Enlightenment owner Ben Howe would focus on brewing. I wouldn’t be surprised […]
Hoppy Boston/Hopster’s Belgian IPA
Last month my brother and I brewed a batch of beer at Hopster’s Brew and Boards, the new brew-on-premises and bar in Newton Corner (for my earlier write-up see: http://wp.me/p3TEvn-3M). We brewed a Belgian style IPA, which I have finally been able to taste, so I thought I would share the recipe and review the […]
Review: Night Shift Simcoenation
The popularity of craft beer has led to an explosion of micro- and nano-breweries in the greater Boston area. Nightshift Brewery in Everett is one of the more innovative new breweries, making everything from Belgian ales to sours to a stout brewed with local chocolate. Originally started by three friends home-brewing in an apartment in […]