D.L. Geary Brewing Company of Portland, ME was the first microbrewery in New England. When Geary Brewing was incorporated in 1983 there were only 13 microbreweries total in the United States. Co-founder David Geary traveled to England and Scotland to train in breweries and learn more about brewing traditional British style ales. Geary’s sold their […]
Tag: Porter
Atlantic Brewing Coal Porter
Atlantic Brewing Company started in 1990 as Acadia Brewing, a single-barrel brewery attached to a brewpub in Bar Harbor, Maine. After a mumber of expansions and a name change, Atlantic Brewing has established themselves as a mainstay of the Maine craft beer scene. They now brew beer on a 10 acre estate down the road […]
Home-brew Recipe: Hoppy Boston Porter
One of my favorite beers to drink once the weather gets cold is porter. I love the thick mouthfeel, dark malts and balanced bitterness. Last winter I brewed a big and boozy porter. It was great then and I let some of it age in the bottle for a year, and it’s even better with […]
Smuttynose Robust Porter
Discovering craft beer is a process. Each person takes a slightly different path from downing bland, mass-produced lagers in college to appreciating the wide variety of flavors that fall under the heading of “beer”. One of the breweries that helped expand my palate was Smuttynose, operating out of Portsmouth and North Hampton, NH since 1994. […]
Hoppy Boston 