The Brooklyn Brewery MASH, a 12-city tour with events highlighting what’s next in food, film, the arts, and beer, arrived in Boston earlier this month. Last night at Harpoon brewery’s taproom, veteran craft brewers (and new-blood Dann Paquette of Pretty Things) Steve Hindy of Brooklyn Brewery, Dan Kenary of Harpoon, […]
When I took the four days off from work, booked the hotel room, and bought a new dress for our trip to Montreal, it didn’t occur to me that I should have probably checked the expiration date of my passport. Needless to say, I need to renew it. So, with […]
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 […]
