When the best brewery of 2019 is a faster-than-quick drive from where you live, you of course go to interview the owner. Assuming that’s your job. Continue reading
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“10 Trends in the Beer Industry to Watch in 2020”
Trends! Get your beer trends here! Fresh trends, alive, alive-oh! Continue reading
“The 10 Best Bottleshops of 2019”
Nothing like a challenge to make me wake up in the morning, even a challenge that I’m poorly equipped to tackle! Continue reading
“The 10 Best Gifts for the Homebrewer in Your Life”
“Okay, Teddy, let’s not evaluate rashly here, all right? It’s a misunderstanding. We’re not saying pilsners are boring. We’re saying that we are too boring to appreciate them properly, is what I’m going with.” Continue reading
“The 5 Best Beer Bars in Nashville, TN”
Oh, come on, you didn’t think I’d go to a bunch of breweries and not ALSO go to a bunch of bars, too? You don’t know me at all, do you. Continue reading
“The 5 Best Breweries in Nashville, TN”
It’s called Music City, but as a secondary honorific, Good Beer City is accurate. It just doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as nicely. Continue reading
“How Foam Brewers Find Creativity Under Pressure”
A young brewery so good at making top-notch, unique beers, plus great examples of trendy beer styles, that they’ll leave you…foaming at the mouth. Yeah, I did that. I did. Continue reading
“How 5 Craft Breweries Are Embracing Coffee Roasting”
Some people drink beer. Other people don’t. Lots of people drink coffee. Pivot to coffee. Continue reading
“How 5 Breweries Are Embracing Sustainable Brewing”
Beer is wonderful, except when it’s wasteful. But breweries know what’s up, and they have known what’s up since ages ago! So don’t worry, be happy, drink beer. Continue reading
“The Best Beer Fom Extreme Beer Fest 2019”
AKA: Keep beer weird! (Says the guy who put a borin’ ol’ pilsner on his best-of list.) Continue reading
“What Is the Solera Brewing Method?”
Everyone knows that aging beer in oak barrels is a gateway to deliciousness. What they might not know is that if you do math and fractionally blend your barrel aged beers, “deliciousness” goes to a whole new level. Continue reading
“Why Brew an Anniversary Beer?”
Clever subheadline: Because anniversary beers can be delicious, just like other beers that have nothing to do with an anniversary. Figuring out how to make a beer to commemorate the birth of your brewery isn’t an easy feat. It’s an abstract feat, even. But if you’re creative enough, you’ll crack the code, as the brewers I … Continue reading
“The Best Oktoberfest Parties Around the Country”
It’s October! Which means it’s still Oktoberfest! Only just, of course, but “only just” is just enough. You’ve got a couple days left. Seize ’em. You can start, naturally, by reading my thoughts on the festival, farmed from brewers at Night Shift, Marshall, and Silvaticus, because of course I’m going to speak with MA breweries … Continue reading
“Sharing a Beer with Esther Tetreault a.k.a. Mrs. Trillium”
Continuing my side career as a major Trillium Brewing Company booster: My interview with Esther Tetreault, one of the most joyful interviews I’ve conducted all year (aided in no small part by drinks*), about Trillium’s past, present, and future, including a discussion of “beer therapy” and a back and forth on the company’s apparent evolution … Continue reading
“Trillium’s Field Trip Beer Fest Brings Brewers and Drinkers Together”
I know what you’re gonna ask: “How does he do it? How does Crump make it to, and make it through, as many beer festivals as he does?” Well my friends, it’s quite simple: I run, I bike, I take evening walks around my neighborhood, I lift, and I try to eat healthy*, and somewhere in … Continue reading
“The Best Beer from the Vermont Brewers Festival”
Well, that’s another Vermont Brewers Festival under the belt right there. Writing about beer is a challenge, I’m telling you. Writing about beer when part of the job means talking to people who make beer about beer while you’re drinking beer. Movie festivals, music festivals; they’re a cinch. You drink as part of the festivities. Drinking itself … Continue reading
