We're having a brutal winter. It's friggin' cold and snow is everywhere. More snow is headed our way. Where can Hub residents turn for hope in January? Beer. Where else? This great photo, courtesy of Paul Keleher, proves that we can always count on the beer guy to deliver, even in the wicked winter of 2010-2011.
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Boston.com appears to be worried about the status of your holiday shopping. They provided suggestions to finish your shopping.
Tonight at the Franklin Southie, you're invited to show your support for the Nineteenth Amendment (and your implicit disdain for the Eighteenth) with delicious & affordable cocktails featuring Bols Genever and St-Germain elderflower liqueur. Never mind that prohibition and women's suffrage went hand-in-hand: Ladies United For The Preservation of Endangered Cocktails is doing their best to make up for that. [Facebook]
Admittedly, this photo is not the most striking in the Bostonist Flickr pool, nor does it overflow with artistic merit--but there is something about it that touches the Zeitgeist of summer in Boston and a particular generational or cultural trend (hello hipsters). In fact, maybe it's the photo's very unremarkable, borderline-mediocre aesthetic that makes it so great--and so much like PBR itself. There's something about it that just works.
Boston has been good to us in terms of beer. It gave us shelter and an imperial stout when it was cold. It gave us reprieve and a refreshing hefeweizen when it was hot. It gave us a place to come every few days after work. It schooled us in everything from the finest Belgians to the sweetest of fruits. It offered us hundreds of beers to sample at various beer fests. It helped us celebrate holidays and the change of seasons. And it makes great beer.
Moving to a new city is overwhelming: new neighborhood to explore, new transit system to get lost on, new grocery stores to negotiate…and new bars! This Bostonist is soon heading off to the big scary New York City. And what is she afraid of most? Not of crime, not of getting lost, but of not being a regular.
Not a lot of people would pair beer with museums. (Some people would not pair museums with fun at all, frankly.) And many people would not think to pair beer with chocolate. But what if you put them all together? You would get the Peabody Essex Museum’s Beer + Chocolate = Food of the Gods tasting. No one can really object to the name, at least.
“Um, excuse me? Where’s the Natty table?” said one girl to another, both clutching tasting cups and joking their way to the next booth over. Natural Light was certainly not present at last weekend’s American Craft Beer Fest, but 88 other breweries were, each with two to six different brews to sample. Below are a few of our favorites.
Somewhat surprisingly, tickets for all three sessions of BeerAdvocate's American Craft Beer Fest seem to still be available online. The festival has sold out quickly in past years, so if you've never been this is a good opportunity to try tons of beers and get a little tipsy in two-ounce increments. And even if you're not able to snag tickets, never fear: a few Boston Beer Week events are still "on tap" (ha, ha). [Tickets]
Starting tomorrow Friday, June 11th and going through Sunday, June 20th, Boston will be celebrating beer. Not that we don’t every day, but this is the official Boston Beer Week, full of tastings, dinners, tours and pub crawls.
-- A dispute over beer in Plymouth ended badly as an 18-year old from Kingston shot two men, killing one. Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz described the suspect as armed and dangerous, and issued a warrant yesterday that charges him with murder, armed assault with intent to murder, and possession of a firearm without a license. The man who died was 23-years old and from Abington. [Globe]
Ever find yourself at a bar with so many beers on tap you struggle to make a decision? You wish you could try every one without falling off your stool or otherwise doing something you'd strongly regret the next morning. You leave three or four later, full and warm, but feeling as if you've missed something. The cure for this is simple: The American Craft Beer Fest!
Bostonist is very much pro-beer, and quite possibly, had at least one this weekend. Beer books? Good. Craft beer? Check. Tasting? Affirmative. We even like it when politicians support local breweries. We don't like beer when it gets mixed with crime like it did in Cambridge on Saturday night. A man was stabbed in an incident based on a dispute over beer. The Cambridge Chronicle got the scoop in e-mail sent by City Manager Bob Healy to city officials. All charges alleged until proven under law. [Cambridge Chronicle]
We were recently at a sporting event (which may or may not have been the Kentucky Derby) where nary a "good" beer could be found. In fact, beer in general was hard to find under the proliferation of one other certain drink (which may or may not have been a mint julep). But the lesson learned there, while sipping our traditional spirits through a straw, is that there is a time and place for every drink. Likewise, there is a time and place for every beer.
But why celebrate this new made-up holiday when you complain about the others? (And what would the greeting cards look like? Cover: “Happy American Craft Beer Week” Inside: “You’re Beerific!”) What did craft beer do for us?
Senator Scott Brown's popularity is not lost on Bostonist. Our other Senator's very existence, however, has been obscured by his junior D.C. partner's prominence. Crap. We forgot to use his name. See? John Kerry. Just in case. Well, Kerry, who is big in Nantucket and a terrible comedian, might have found a way to reclaim his fame. Beer. Kerry wants to cut the excise tax on the country's 1,500 small breweries. This includes Boston's Sam Adams, the country's largest small brewery. [Boston Globe]
It is a date to remember. Or maybe one to forget. Or maybe one you forgot whether you meant to or not. Your 21st birthday. In fact, now that we think about it, perhaps it’s more fun to help others celebrate theirs than it is to try to survive your own. That’s why this weekend should be a blast when Cambridge Brewing Company celebrates their 21st.
Bacon chips, bacon popcorn, bacon pretzels, bacon scones, bacon sandwiches, bacon-stuffed buns, bacon cupcakes, bacon brownies, bacon milkshakes, chocolate-covered bacon - the Boston Bacon & Beer Festival, held on Saturday at the historic Power Station building in the South End, felt a bit like a scene out of Forrest Gump, but for those who love pork more than shrimp. Dozens of restaurants and breweries were on hand to celebrate two of our favorite food groups - bacon and beer.
In the spirit of our own impromptu tastings held at the kitchen table, we’re trying the tastings and tours of local breweries. Last Friday we visited the Harpoon Brewery in Boston for an hour-long tasting and talk.
It would be great to think of beer as the great equalizer; this magic elixir that brings people of all kinds together. A drink that leaves no group behind or excludes any party from the fun. But is it?
April may be known for its showers, but it makes up for lousy weather in beer events. There are a number of events celebrating the worthy elixir this month from tastings to all-out beer festivals. Below are a select few to wet your taste buds.
You can't judge a book by its cover...or so they say. But can you judge a beer by its label? There seem to be two basic styles of labels that a brewery can choose from: that which stays basically the same regardless of the style of beer, and that which changes radically depending on whether an IPA or porter is inside the bottle.
Okay, here’s one: you’re on a deserted island and can only have five beers with you. What would they be? A book coming out may do little more than frustrate you with your choices, but it also could be a helpful reference: 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die by Adrian Tierney-Jones
Remember what you drank last St. Patty’s Day? No? That’s distressing but not surprising. Odds are, though, that if you weren’t guzzling something “lite” dyed green, you were having yourself a stout.
- A meeting of 20 mayors hosted by Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston wants a 2012 ballot question to allow cities and towns more flexibility to reduce municipal health care costs. [Boston Globe]
- Two unions representing 14,000 workers agreed to contract concessions expected to save Massachusetts more than $40 million and reduce potential layoffs. [Metro West Daily News]
- After having to backtrack on increased fees, the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) rolled out new "no wait" services. [WBZ]
The optimists among us smile as the wintry mix pelts them in the face and say, “Spring is just around the corner! Can’t you smell it in the air?” The pessimists among us pull the covers closer and vow not to emerge from our bedrooms until June. May we suggest a middle ground? Spring beers! A way to celebrate the upcoming season and simultaneously drown your wintry woes.
Ever heard the toast, “Drink to your health”? Always seemed a little backwards, didn’t it? Health isn’t the first thing you think of before you take a big swill of beer. Well good news: beer is officially good for you! Or so say several scientific studies.
You could give her roses or chocolates or diamonds, but that’s all been done before. This Valentine’s Day, go with a girl’s true best friend: chocolate beer. Below is a sampling of some chocolate beers we tried. Oh, it was a struggle.
Beer is good for you. Soft drinks will kill you. We've been saying this all along, but now it's been translated into British: "Topflight boffins have discovered that the swilling of pop is a fantastically unhealthy thing to do." So, "quaff a tankard of ale instead."