Tilted Barn Brewing in Exeter, Rhode Island has emerged as a destination brewery for people across the region which usually means one thing, a penchant for making excellent hazy New-England style IPAs. Tilted Barn actually makes a diverse range of beers, but it’s the hops and the haze that drives sales and hype these days […]
Tag: Double IPA
Amory’s Tomb Drips From Above
I’ve reviewed a bunch of Amory’s Tomb beers already, it is pretty obvious that I am excited that such a stellar brewery is open so close to my house. I have made multiple visits for draft beers and for beers-to-go, and plan to make many more. From the day they opened Amory’s Tomb has been […]
Tree House Doubleganger
I think it is crucial for every brewery to have a “calling card” style, a beer style or set of styles that they consistently excel at. If your brewery make awesome pale lagers, saisons, or sours than fans of that style will become regular customers, and will eventually try the other beers you create. While […]
Backlash Defy the Odds
This year has been rough for most people and for many businesses, especially those in the hospitality industry. With government-based relief far from certain and many more months before things return to any approximation of “normal”, 2021 promises to be another tough year. This will probably have a lasting impact on the craft beer industry, […]
Cold Harbor Sistah, Sistah
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 […]
Canned Heat Save Room For Suppah
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 […]
Widowmaker Honeymaker
Every spring a large number of breweries collaborate on a beer with the Pink Boots Society, a non-profit group that promotes careers for women in the beer industry. The Pink Boots Society selects a blend of hops that is used in all of the collaboration beers, and then encourages the female employees at each participating […]
Lone Pine Dream Team
Yesterday I posted about why it feels weird writing about beer with everything that is going on in the world, and why I am going to try and keep doing it anyway. I hope it provides a sliver of normalcy, something that is hard to come by right now. I am really missing sports right […]
River Styx Venom of Cerberus
My number one and number two goals for Hoppy Boston in 2020 are to write more about Massachusetts beers and to visit more local breweries, especially those I’ve never been to and those I haven’t been back to in way too long. One brewery that is high on the must-visit-soon list is River Styx in […]
Hill Farmstead Double Nelson and Civil Disobedience #27
Every November since early in college I have taken a trip to Vermont with a group of buddies to attend a wild game supper followed by an overnight in a hotel joking around and drinking beer. It is one of my favorite weekends of the year, and while the tradition remains it has evolved over […]