12 Beers of Christmas 2020 – 1: Anchor Our Special Ale
Well it’s been a year, hasn’t it? From the wreckage wrought by COVID-19 to the high-wire anxiety of the election,… Read more »
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12 Beers of Christmas 2019 Reprise
[Dec. 17, 2020]–Luckily a delivery of two bottles of Anchor’s 2020 Our Special Ale showed up yesterday, before the massive… Read more »
On the Ground With Math and Memory
Jonathan Cummings doesn’t beat around the bush in introducing his treatise on the ranking of golf courses, The Rating Game (Post… Read more »
Tap Beer(s) of the Week: Paulaner Pils vs. von Trapp Pilsner
[Oct. 30, 2020]–We had our first significant snowfall today in southern Vermont. (Well, about an inch, but it stuck around… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week: Rogue Dead Guy Ale
I wrote up a piece on the not-so vanishing world of bock beers for the spring issue of the relatively… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week: Able Ebenezer Burn the Ships
It’s good to have friends, especially friends with daughters who seem to know you’re into beer, and who visit your… Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 12: Berkshire Brewing Holidale
Okay, it’s a wrap. I wasn’t intending to revisit Berkshire Brewing’s Holidale the year after we last had it. (Some… Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 11: Trois Dames Winter Sour
We’ve been pleasantly imbibing our way through a series of dark beers as 2019 barreled to a close. But it… Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 10: Avery Old Jubilation
Here’s to jubilation, old or new, as we head into a new decade and, we can hope, better times ahead…. Read more »
12 Beers of Christmas 2019 – 9: Shmaltz Chanukah, Hanukkah: Pass the Beer
It’s the last night of Hanukkah, and have I got a beer for you. Yes we have, in a way,… Read more »
