A couple times a year I take a break from IPAs, I get burned out on all of the hop bombs so I spend a month or so focusing on other styles of beer I enjoy. The winter is usually one of the best times to go hop-free, I can drink lots of big and […]
Tag: Stout
Tree House Double Shot Vanilla Bean
Last Friday I took a much needed day off from work and used the free afternoon as an excuse to make a long overdue run out to Tree House Brewing Company. Tree House isn’t a horrible ride from my house, under an hour, but I rarely make the trip, my brewery visits are limited with […]
Barreled Souls/Dancing Gnome Gnome’s Soul
One of my big beer-related goals for the early part of 2019 was to drink my cellar, I had close to 40 bottles in the cellar in December and I would prefer to have that number in the single digits. I had never intended on keeping a substantial beer cellar, but it becomes so easy […]
Night Shift Dynasty
I have been on a massive dark and malty beer kick over the last month. Part of it is the season, I feel like these beers are perfect for cold winter nights, and we’ve had a few of those recently. Part of it is hop burnout, I drank too much IPA in 2018 and I […]
Long Live Bonus Cup
My good friends Tim and Amanda live in Providence and are my source for everything Rhode Island beer. One of the breweries they have repeatedly identified as a local favorite destined for big things is Long Live Beerworks in Providence. Long Live sells pints along with growlers and cans to go out of a small […]
Barreled Souls Hillrock Bourbon Barrel Aged Deep Space
I make 3-4 trips to Maine a year to visit friends and family, and I usually try to incorporate a few brewery visits as part of each trip. The logistics of this can be difficult with the young kids, they are good travelers overall but their naps and feeding schedules tend to dictate stops and […]
Wormtown Norm
With the recent announcement that Norm Miller is retiring his popular Beer Nut column as part of a plan to cut back on drinking and focus on his health I thought it was about time to finally review Norm, his eponymous beer from Wormtown Brewery. It helped that Wormtown decided to distribute some of this […]
Maine Beer Co. Fall
Of all of the amazing breweries in the great state of Maine the one I visit the most is probably Maine Beer Company in Freeport. Other breweries might be more trendy, or have new beer releases every week that generate buzz on social media, but Maine Beer Company makes consistently great beer. Every recipe has […]
Mayflower X
In many industries a company that’s ten years old is still relatively early into their lifespan and just establishing themselves in the minds of their competition. Craft beer is a very different beast, a 10 year old brewery is a grizzled industry veteran that was around before the current explosion of new breweries. It will […]
Springdale Maple Barrel Aged Brigadeiro
At the beginning of the year Springdale Brewing, the ale-focused offshoot of Jack’s Abby Brewing Company, announced that they would start distributing some of their beers. I like that Springdale took their time heading into distribution, they have made a crazy number of different beers in the last year and the slow rollout let them […]
Hoppy Boston 
