Somehow, after two days, countless kegs and a couple thousand attendees burning through the Extreme Beer Fest, the South End is still standing. Minor miracles, etc.
Brewers were challenged to think beyond Double IPA’s and Imperial Stouts this year, and responded by really upping their game. Fruits and nuts were big this year, and the diversity [...]
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Extreme Beer Fest: The Best of the Fest
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Beer
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Sign Speaks the Truth
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer
There’s a liquor store around the corner, on Mystic Valley Parkway. It can’t beat Downtown in the category of crazy selection of 220z craft beer bombers. But what it lacks in fancy-pants selection, it more than makes up for in brutal, brutal honesty.
Some Reviews of New-ish Beers
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer
Hey there! If you care, here’s a few thoughts on a few beers I’ve had lately. If not, uh, there’s always this.
Beer Works Black Rider Lager: Had a pint of this last night, before the massive Al Green show at House of Blues. I share the first BA.com reviewer’s take – here’s a nice, nutty, [...]
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New Clip is Hairy
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer
That didn’t take long. No sooner did September’s BA mag clip hit the internets, than production up and cranked out another awesome-looking edition of the magazine. I grabbed a copy today, while Tom Cruise’s roadies were mulling around the South End, and soon, the thing will be landing in mailboxes all across this great [...]
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The Bomb(shell)
October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Beer
New Beer Advocate magazine clip is online today. It stars Dave Fougeron, co-founder and brewmaster of Southern Star Brewing Company. Dave is brewing some kickass canned beers deep down in Texas. For a good chunk of his customers, his is the first craft beer they’ve had. He’s making sure it won’t be their last.
Southern Star’s [...]
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Harpoon Uncorks UFO Pale Ale
September 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer
Official announcement here. A new winter seasonal, it’s a British-style Pale, weighing in at 34 ibu’s, 5.3 percent abv, and 14.5 degrees plato. Plus, it’s unfiltered. Hence the “UF” in UFO. For those nights when you want to drink more than a single bottle of a Harpoon winter offering.
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Buzzards Bay Brewing Folds House Label
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer
So says the New Bedford Standard-Times.
According to the paper, sales of the Buzzards Bay label have slumped to under 200 barrels a year – not a pretty figure.
The brewery will stay open, self-distribute a small new house line, and contract for Cisco and the awesome Pretty Things.
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Big Brewers Make Like the Globe
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer, Business
Following in Morrissey Boulevard’s footsteps, A-B and MillerCoors decide that they’d like to combat flagging sales and eroding market share by, uh, jacking up prices.
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FTC: Cans May Introduce Colleges to Beer
August 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer, Media
For shame, Bud. Now college kids across this great and sober nation have been alerted to the existence of beer.
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Hot Brews in the Summertime
August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer
This fine gentleman you’re gazing at is Don Younger, publican of Portland’s Horse Brass Pub. Younger is among those being spotlighted in the new issue of Beer Advocate magazine. It’s Profiles in Beer – always the year’s best.
On the self-promotion angle, this month, I interview Jon Curtis, brewmaster at the TAP Brewpub/Haverhill Brewery. Jon’s one [...]
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