As much as I love the Boston area beer scene, and as much fun as I’ve had tasting beers in some other US cities, my favorite beer city by far is Portland (the one in Maine, not the pretender on the West Coast). There are a crazy number of great breweries right in the city […]
As the popularity of craft beer has grown so has the rise in beer pairings. The most common is food and beer, from fancy multi-course beer dinners to pairings of beer with Halloween candy. While food is an obvious choice there are also beer pairings to go with the seasons, specific weather, special events or […]
IPAs with low bitterness, loads of tropical and citrus flavors and aromas, and a hazy/murky appearance have taken craft beer by storm over the past few years. Breweries all over the world have adopted the sub-style, but there is still some debate on the proper name for these beers. Many breweries use descriptive titles like […]
This is usually my favorite week of the year. Every year on the weekend before Thanksgiving I take a trip to Vermont with my college buddies, we’ve been doing this trip since we were in school and it now involves a stop at Hill Farmstead. Later in the week I would be headed up to […]
Sometimes it can be really difficult to separate the art from the artist. Despite a life spent loving epic fantasy, from Tolkien and Lewis to Martin, Jordan and Sanderson, I didn’t get into the whole Harry Potter craze when the books first came out. I was probably just a little too old and it didn’t […]
On a recent quick stop in Worcester I was finally able to check out Greater Good Brewery, unfortunately just to quickly pick up an online order since I am still avoiding any sit-down brewery visits. I have enjoyed a number of Greater Good beers since they initially launched as an all-imperial contract brand, and I […]
If the last decade in craft beer has proven anything it’s that there is no single “right” business model, as long as you make a quality product there are many ways to build and run a successful brewery. I have always been intrigued by breweries that take a different approach to their business, either by […]
Another week in the pandemic and another beer review from a new-to-me brewery. This has clearly been a trend as more breweries used the shutdown to scale up canning and distribution options as a way to offset the lost revenue caused by a lack of on premise sales. I really hope this strategy helps, but […]
Last summer our family spent a nice Saturday in Worcester. We took the kids to the Ecotarium, grabbed lunch at a restaurant, and they hung out at Redemption Rock Brewery, my wife and I sampling some beers while the kids played with the Giant Jenga set, and then grabbing some crowlers to-go. Needless to say, […]
As large swaths of the country join the push for social justice and equality, many different types of businesses are coming under the microscope. Craft beer is definitely an industry that has some work to do, while the industry has been full of success stories in the last decade it has also been rightly criticized […]
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