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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

Tom Bedell

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

Tom Bedell

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

Tom Bedell

[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

Tom Bedell

[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

Tom Bedell

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.