As of today I am no longer unemployed, I am back into the workforce after a 6 week break. My wife and I bought a house right before I found out I was losing my previous job, so the majority of my break was spent moving, cleaning out the old apartment and then dealing with all […]
Tag: IPA
Building 8 The IPA
Many new breweries open their doors and release a large variety of beers in their first year. Some of these beers become brewery staples, some get tinkered with and reworked, and some disappear after a short run. I understand the desire for variety, different drinkers prefer different beer styles and breweries with tasting rooms need […]
Peak Organic Crush and Evergreen
There are many products that drive sales based on brand loyalty. For example, we always have two types of peanut butter in my house because I prefer Jif and my wife likes Skippy, and while we make many compromises in marriage neither of us were willing to change our PB brand. While macro-lagers have used brand loyalty […]
Backlash Ricochet
Backlash brewing has gone through a number of big changes in the last year plus. Like many brewers they have moved their packaging strategy away from 22 oz. bottles and towards cans. Co-founder Helder Pimentel has been outspoken about the death of large format bottles, customers seem to prefer 4/6/12 packs and breweries that relied on bombers have needed to adapt. […]
Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Part 2
Yesterday I reviewed the first three beers in Sierra Nevada’s Beer Camp 12-pack. Today I’ll continue with the final three and some thought on the pack as a whole. Moxee Moron Imperial Session IPA: Represents the Pacific Northwest and Rockies in collaboration with Bale Breaker, Barley Brown’s, Black Raven, Melvin and Odell Brewing. The “style” imperial […]
Stony Creek Cranky IPA
Not even a year ago I wrote about the lack of Connecticut beers available in the Boston market. I try to make this blog cover all of New England and I had read about a number of exciting breweries in CT but few were distributing north of the border. I even made a stop in Hartford on […]
Aeronaut A Year With Dr. Nandu
Every year a multitude of new breweries are opening while others are expanding production and opening new taprooms. There isn’t a single business model that these brewers need to follow, there have been many different routes to success. I’ve enjoyed watching the path taken by Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville. First they opened their taproom, a fun […]
Firestone Walker Luponic Distortion #1
IPA’s are still far and away the most popular non-macro beer style, easily outpacing the sales of their maltier counterparts. This presents a few issues for larger scale breweries with national distribution. The biggest issue is freshness. One of the best parts of an IPA is the burst of hop aroma from a fresh batch, but these aromatics begin to […]
Bog Iron Jump Back
Being a parent is awesome and I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world, but it cuts into your free time a bit (and by that I mean that my free time is almost non-existent). This just means that I need to be creative if I want to do things like visit breweries. A […]
Castle Island Keeper IPA
On Saturday my wife took the baby to the in-laws for a visit and I had an increasingly rare afternoon to myself, needless to say I used my free time to hit a couple of breweries. Conveniently there were two new breweries that I was excited to try, and they each opened for business within the last week (and within a few […]
Hoppy Boston 