When a home brewer goes pro, a nano brewery is born. From construction to distribution, brewers have a hand in every aspect of building the business and more often than not, they’re doing most of it by themselves. For brewers pouring heart, soul, and savings into a budding enterprise, beer […]
Since June 2013, I’ve been working full-time at a Harley-Davidson dealership in the Boston metro area in the events/marketing department. Basically, I throw parties for bikers. (Five years ago, if you told me I’d be living in Boston, writing about beer, and working at Harley-Davidson…I would have moved out of […]
On September 8th, I was one of a lucky few able to tour the Spencer Trappist brewery of Spencer, Massachusetts. Saint Joseph’s Abbey is situated on 2,000 acres of rolling green farmland where monks live, pray (seven times daily), and make beer. Since the 1950’s, the monks at Saint Joseph’s […]
Friends and co-founders of Aeronaut Brewing Company, Ronn Friedlander, Ben Holmes, and Dan Rassi, are at odds with how to describe the concept for Somerville’s newest brewery. “We wanted to start a brewery, and we always had the idea to some how involve the community,” said Friedlander. When […]
Jack’s Abby Brewing has built its reputation as being the leading specialty lager brewery in New England. Its beat out German breweries at the World Beer Cup, nabbed two gold medals at the last Great American Beer Fest, was named Massachusetts’ best brewery by RateBeer, and has numerous beer […]
Last year, when Jack’s Abby Brewing of Framingham, Mass. had a few unused aging barrels, owners and brothers Jack, Sam, and Eric Hendler decided to experiment. “We had a few empty barrels, too few to do a big batch with, so we decided that it might be fun to do […]
Aeronaut Brewing is currently under construction in Somerville, Massachusetts, and is the only brewery located in the Boston suburb. The building at 14 Tyler Street is divided into two spaces – a 4,000 square-foot brewing space which will also house a taproom, and an 8,000 square-foot space that’s dedicated to […]
