by Rob | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog Posts, Most Popular
Now that the weather has finally started to turn, and the unofficial kick off to summer is here, we figured it was good time to highlight some of the Bay State’s best breweries for outdoor drinking. With some 122 visitable destinations, many of which offer a...
by Rob | Jun 27, 2017 | Blind Tastings, Blog Posts
Don’t Believe the Hype? One of the reasons we decided to do a series of blind tastings was to see for ourselves if the hype surrounding some of the more heralded breweries is deserved, especially given the controversial nature of beer ratings these days....
by Rob | Jun 21, 2017 | Blog Posts
A collaboration with guest blogger Henry Moore You Say You Want A Revolution In 1984, Jim Koch brewed a batch of beer using his great-great grandfather’s recipe. He then went door-to-door in Boston selling his family’s brew. After some success with his Samuel Adams...
by Rob | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog Posts
Get Ready to Have Your Mind Blown, and Your Liver Massachusetts is bursting at the seams with craft beer these days, and as summer approaches things are really ramping up. Hopefully you’ve saved up some vacation days for a few road trips because there...
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...
