Posts Tagged: Massachusetts
Massachusetts: Glacier Harvest '08, Harpoon, Boston
Posted by on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 in - 2 comments
Enough of the playing seer! Enough of the badly considered science!! Enough all ready!!! This is a blog about beer, isn't it. Well, I got out of the black shoes, jacket and tie at 9:38 pm so beer it is. • I have had a few of the Harpoon 100 Barrel series offerings before and generally liked …
Massachusetts: Leviathan Baltic Porter, Harpoon Brewery
Posted by on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 in - leave a comment
A small sensible bottle of very strong beer from a classic New England brewery. I picked up one of each in the Leviathan series, this and the Imperial IPA. With a wall of snow outside and after shoveling my way in only to put the car exactly where it will be stuck in the morning, it was really … read more »
Massachusetts: Beer Of The Gods, High And Mighty Beer
Posted by on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 in - leave a comment
What to have for the day Obama gets to grasp the brass ring? Something from a blue state, that's obvious. And something that doesn't look like one of those designer beers. And one with a name that speaks to hyperbolic hope. High and Mighty's Beer of the Gods passes the test on all counts. • At a …
Massachusetts: St. Hubbins Abbey, High and Mighty Beer, Holyoke
Posted by on Thursday, August 28, 2008 in - 2 comments
Excellent. A Spinal Tap reference in a well-priced Belgian-style ale, named for the patron saint of quality footwear. The brewery's website is but a page - refreshingly Tap-tastic as well. The brewery apparently uses the equipment at fellow Holyokarians at Paper City, whose mixed 12 pack I … read more »
Porter Season: Four US Porters Side-By-Side-By-Side-By-Side
Posted by on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 in - 2 comments
...Colorado, Maine, New York, Massachusetts... • This porter season thing is a little overwhelming - sure it's a whole season but there's supposed to be snow by Friday and I gotta get on to the imperial stouts, old ales and barleywines...and winter beers...and Christmas ales. You know I want to …
Massachusetts: Country Ale, Wachusett Brewing, Westminster
Posted by on Saturday, July 14, 2007 in - leave a comment
I have liked the ales I have had from Wachusett Brewing out of Westminster in central Massachusetts: the winter, their IPA , the summer seasonal and the brown - I like that picture of the brown. • When I last tried this, there was a malty note that I knew I knew from somewhere but I could not … read more »
Two North-East US Winter Ales
Posted by on Monday, December 11, 2006 in - 3 comments
You thought I was going to title this A Tale of Two Winters or something all Dickensy like that, right? Well, I didn't. Sometimes you just have to set aside the Dickens and move on. These are two brews from two of my favorite smaller breweries within striking range of my place, Winterizer from the …
Another Four...No, Three US Pale Ales
Posted by on Thursday, May 18, 2006 in - 4 comments
What a burden research is. I considered the state of the English pale ale just a couple of weeks ago and now find myself again facing four pale ales armed with nothing but time and an opener. Interesting to note the two examples from Massachusetts - Endurance and Fisherman's Brew - and the …
Massachusetts: IPA, Wachusett, Westminster
Posted by on Thursday, October 13, 2005 in - 4 comments
I picked this IPA up in Worcester, Mass. the other weekend when I was on a road trip. I am a fan of northeast US IPAs. There is something in the body that just is not in the UK or Canadian version and there is a moderate sensibility that the west coast US versions just go past. • Wachusett IPA … read more »
Two New England Browns
Posted by on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 in - 1 comment
If there is one style of beer that can confuse it is brown ale. Beer, after all, is pretty much brown. There are any number of Belgian ales that can be thought of as brown but called Flemish brown or reds, quadruples or just browns. But there are also dubbles which are big and earthy and brown …
