It may have been more than twenty years ago at some Midwest outpost we’d journeyed to that Stephen Beaumont and… Read more »
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Posts Tagged: Vermont
Twelve Beers of Christmas 10: Otter Creek Winter Red Ale
Kept it local today in more ways than one. Knowing I’d be doing the regular Saturday evening beer tasting at… Read more »
Twelve Beers of Christmas 2: Nøgne Ø Winter Ale
We’ve survived the Mayan apocalypse. Now all we have to do is make it through winter, which begins today. Here… Read more »
The Session #70: Don’t Believe the Hype
It may seem that in this over-stimulated world, you’re either trying to escape hype, or are suspected of producing it…. Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week: King Titus Porter
[Nov. 16, 2012]–The first Peeper Ale from the Maine Beer Company rolled out of the brewery in the summer of… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week: Geary’s London Porter
[July 30, 2023–David Geary died Wednesday at age 78, closing an early chapter in the U.S. craft brewing book–or micro-brewing,… Read more »
Beer FAQ
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.
TAP Beer(s) of the Week: Saranac White IPA and Ubu Ale
I’m recently back from the Turning Stone Resort Casino in central New York about midway between Utica and Syracuse. I’ll… Read more »
After the Floods, Beer Rises
[This piece first appeared, in somewhat different form, in the April 4, 2012 issue of The Commons, an independent non-profit… Read more »
What Golf Ball Through Yonder Window Breaks?
I belong to a Shakespeare group. Not a troupe, a group, which meets now and again to read through the… Read more »
