by Rob | May 25, 2017 | Blog Posts, Most Popular
Brewster, Patriot Women have played a pivotal role in the Massachusetts craft beer scene since its inception in the early 1980s, when Jim Koch and his partner Rhonda Kallman were schlepping cases of Sam Adams Boston Lager to bars all over the city. Kallman, who Koch...
by Rob | Apr 25, 2017 | Blog Posts, Western Mass.
Two Breweries Have Suspended Production, Two More Under Threat One of the Bay State’s oldest breweries, Holyoke’s Paper City Brewing, has ceased production and closed its doors, possibly for good. No word yet on when, or even if the longtime brewer, which...
by Rob | Apr 18, 2017 | Blog Posts, Most Popular
“Don’t Call it A Comeback, They’ve Been Here For Years” For those of you old enough to remember LL Cool J before he became a TV star on NCIS, you may recall the above song lyric from his hit, Mama Said Knock You Out. That was back in the early...
by Rob | Apr 4, 2017 | Blind Tastings, Blog Posts
“You Know You Make Me Want to Stout” We love stouts! So imagine the scene last Saturday when we gathered at Craft Beer Cellar in Belmont with some of our favorite beer-loving friends for a blind taste test of Massachusetts stouts. It was a lot like the...
by Rob | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog Posts
As promised in our first installment of The Bay State Craft Beer Drinker’s Guide to 2017, this year is off to a fast and furious start. A bevy of legislative bills have been proposed (including one that would restore distribution rights to craft brewers), three...
by Rob | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog Posts, Mass. Brewery Stats
Massachusetts Reaches Milestone in What Promises to Be a Record-Breaking Year For Craft Beer With three more openings in the month of March, the number of visitable breweries in the Bay State has reached the century mark. The most recent, and 100th, was New...
