It feels like Black IPA is making a bit of a comeback. For a little while 8-10 years ago it seemed like Black IPA was the next big thing in beer and every brewery was giving these hopped-up dark beers a try. Then the haze-bombs started to drop and obliterated everything in their path. A […]
Tag: Rising Tide
Rising Tide Waypoint
I still don’t drink coffee. Many of my colleagues are shocked that I didn’t pick up the habit in graduate school, the 70-80 hour weeks in the lab drove many towards any additional boost they could find. I joked afterwards that I had one more big test, which started almost 7 months ago with the […]
Rising Tide Maine Island Trail Ale
So I am going to break a couple of my unwritten, poorly defined and completely arbitrary blog rules with my review today. The first is that I try not to do reviews of beers from a single brewery on consecutive weeks. There are so many great local breweries, even when I visit a tap room […]
Rising Tide Printemps
Happy Marathon Monday/Patriots Day! For those of you that don’t live in Massachusetts, today is a state holiday where most of metro Boston closes work and has a big party while some elite athletes/insane people (or both, depending on your perspective) run 26.2 miles. This is one of the best days to live in Boston, […]
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 […]
Rising Tide Calcutta Cutter
With the ever increasing number of craft breweries competeing for attention from customers, as well as shelf and tap space, it is important for any new brewery to have a calling card. One of the most effective calling cards is a beer that creates buzz. Typically this beer will be a seasonal/limited release, and it should […]
Rising Tide Ursa Minor Weizen Stout
The quaint ocean-side city of Portland, Maine has become a hotspot for emerging craft breweries. One of the developing stars in Portland is Rising Tide Brewing Company. Rising Tide was founded in 2010 by brewer/owner Nathan and his business partner Heather. Rising Tide brews a series of year-round and seasonal ales available on draft and […]