Posted Drinking in Boston: The Beer Bowl to Bostonist
The Super Bowl is a grueling game. It’s one of grit, strength, cunning, and above all, endurance. What we mean is, it’s a long game to get through even if you’re playing in it, but if you’re on the sidelines drinking for hours it may be even more of a trick to be standing at the end. Here is where picking the perfect beer comes into play. What you really need is a good...
Posted Drinking in Boston: Wintry Events to Bostonist
When the weather vacillates between vicious snowstorms, chilling
rainstorms, and frigid days of skating down the sidewalk, there's only
one thing we want to do: hibernate. Unfortunately, the real world
beckons, and we must trudge on. Here are a few events in the next
few weeks to get you out of the house.
The first is tonight’s barleywine festival at the Cambridge Brewing
Company. Hit up the CBC tonight at 5pm for Barleywine...
Posted Drinking in Boston: Barely Wine? to Bostonist
Next Thursday the Cambridge Brewing Company is putting on a Barleywine Festival. Ten of brewmaster Will Meyers’ barleywines will be available, two on cask. The brews are different vintages and expressions of the Arquebus and Blunderbuss barleywines. They will also have a tapas menu paired to the beers including such intriguing delights as coffee rubbed lamb lollipops and pomegranate marinated quail. So that’s the festival part of it, but what about the barleywine part?...
Posted Drinking in Boston: Snobbery to Bostonist
Here at the Bostonist Beer Drinking Department, we have occasionally been accused of being beer snobs. At first we were offended, the word “snob” having something of a derogatory connotation. But we eventually decided to embrace it; after all, part of being a snob involves knowing your subject well. (Naturally an incentive to becoming a snob is all the taste tests.) There is no reason to dumb yourself down or hide your knowledge of...
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