I’ve seen some recent criticism out Boston as a beer city, specifically pertaining to the lack of focus on local beers. In fairness, most of this criticism was leveled at bars in the city who devote many tap lines to beers from across the country but few to beers brewed in their own backyard. I […]
Tag: saison
Sierra Nevada Beer Camp 2016 Part 1
Last year Sierra Nevada launched Beer Camp, a series of beer festivals in different cities across the country. As part of this celebration they brewed 12 collaboration beers each one with a different brewer in a Beer Camp host city. The 12 beers were sold as a 12-pack, which sold out incredibly quickly around here so I […]
Kent Falls Equinox
I recently reviewed Stand Out, a single-hop pale ale from Long Trail Brewing that features the Equinox hop. As a homebrewer I love beers that feature single hop varieties, it helps me plan fun ways to use the hops in future homebrew batches. I wasn’t very familiar with the Equinox hop variety, and while I […]
Cambridge Brewing Le Saisonniere
More breweries are dabbling in barrel aging, buying up used wine or spirit barrels and filling them with all types of beer. While the most common barrel aged beer is still the bourbon barrel aged imperial stout, you are starting to see a whole variety of beer and barrel combinations hit the shelves and taps. I am […]
Devil’s Purse Skywave
One of the most recent breweries to start distributing to the Boston area is Devil’s Purse Brewing Company out of South Dennis, MA on Cape Cod. Devil’s Purse has a similar origin to most small breweries in the US, two friends started homebrewing as a hobby and it quickly became a passion and eventually a business. Devil’s […]
Trillium Free Rise Dry-Hopped with Citra
One of my favorite non-traditional beer styles are saisons brewed with substantial additions of New World hops. Some traditionalists scoff at Belgian IPAs/hoppy saisons, but I find these complex and flavorful beers to be interesting and often delicious. Traditional Belgian saison yeast strains contribute a boutique of fruity flavors and aromas to the beer via byproducts in the […]
Pretty Things East Kent Saison
I found a good stock of Pretty Things beers at Craft Beer Cellar in Newton last week, so my tribute to their beer will continue for a few more weeks. One of the beers was probably the last new beer Pretty Things brewed, East Kent Saison. This beer was brewed in honor of the migrant […]
Enlightenment Beyond The Infinite
I was excited in September when Idle Hands Brewery announced that they signed a lease on a new facility in Malden which will open in Spring on 2016. Idle Hands is an underrated staple of the brewing scene in metro Boston and I have enjoyed a number of their offerings over the years. One question […]
Kent Falls Farmer’s Table
I mentioned on in my post on Monday that I took a trip to Connecticut this summer exclusively to pick up some of their local beers that aren’t distributed in Massachusetts. I sampled a number of great beers from breweries that I wasn’t very familiar with, and a couple definitely stood out. One of my personal favorites was […]
Backlash Oath
Fall is my favorite season of the year, the start to feel a crispness in the air, cook and eat some hearty food, watch football on TV every weekend, maybe even catch some playoff baseball when the Red Sox decide to field a competitive team. This weekend felt like the real start of fall, I had a slab […]
Hoppy Boston 
