Posts Tagged: Ray McNeill

We broke our stay-at-home-with-Chinese-food-and-watch-a-movie-New-Year’s-Eve string in grand fashion this year, with a blowout Mexican feast for 12 at the home… Read more »

[Dec. 4, 2022]–I would happily make a sandwich, with mayo, on the floor of most breweries these days. They’re as… Read more »

[This piece originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in the April 8, 2015 edition of The Commons, a weekly newspaper… Read more »

No great surprise here, perhaps, but what would a Christmas beer list be without some Belgian beauties? The surprise to… Read more »

In the sudsy realm of my life, the question I hear most often, and quite often, is the impossible-to-answer, “What’s your favorite beer?” The second most frequently asked question I hear comes when I pull out some beer not hitherto known to the questioner, who asks in near-wonderment, “Where did you get that?” It’s as if I’d traveled to some distant locale and cut through jungle brush to bring this exotic beer back alive.

[This piece first appeared, in somewhat different form, in the April 4, 2012 issue of The Commons,  an independent non-profit… Read more »

Okay, but where in Vermont? No, all of Vermont. The latest Brewers Association stats put Vermont at the head of the list–the state with the most breweries per capita–and all of them are craft breweries.

Vermont is not a huge state–slightly more than 600,000 souls call it home, and there are more senators in the U.S. Congress than the lone congressman. A head to foot (or vice versa) traversal is doable in about two and a half hours, and one is never too far away from the next good beer or golf course.

True, I sometimes drink only one bottle of the TAP Beer of the Week in a week’s time, if that’s… Read more »

Will Ray McNeill play the cello at the May 22 Brattleboro Brewers Festival? With Ray, you never quite know. He’s… Read more »