I stopped by one of my favorite local beer retailers, Stowe Public House, and asked the owner, John, “Do you have a selection of 4 to 5 different … but good … beers from a single Vermont brewery that I can do a little home taste-testing on?” As usual, John […]
The New England beer scene is booming, and Vermont ranks 1st in the nation for breweries per capita and beer production per capita as of 2016, according to the Vermont Brewers Association. And a recent article in The Atlantic explored some of the reasons for this recent craft beer boom, […]
What to do on a frigid afternoon hanging out in the Boston area? Go visit a couple of breweries and continue my Field Research Series (this research helps refine my appreciation for Vermont beers!). Like Vermont, there has been an explosion in the number of new breweries opening up in […]
What to do on a cold (-8 F) and windy day? Tend to my home brewing! However, I quickly realized that the particular recipe I was crafting called for “secondary fermentation”, and I would need another carboy for the process. So I got in my car and then persevered through that […]
Twenty years … twenty years! That’s eons in the Vermont brewing scene, and that is how long Rock Art Brewery has been crafting its brews in the town of Morrisville, Vermont. I’ve stopped by this brewery more than a few times (always easy to spot the trailer with the iconic […]
