May Beer Series
Maharaja IPA Avery Brewing Company Boulder, Colorado Adam Avery, president and head brewmaster of the brewery, incorporated the company in 1993 when craft breweries were just starting to increase in popularity among mainstream beer drinkers. Originally upon its founding the brewery utilized only a seven barrel tank to ferment its beers causing production to be relatively small. In the years since the early to mid 1990s the brewery has expanded significantly to encompass several eighty barrel tanks, two one...
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Ballast Point Black Marlin Porter San Diego, California Jack Young found his taste for beer when he was in college. Upon graduation, he was bored of the commercially available brands and began to homebrew. Soon, he found it difficult to find supplies for his hobby, so he opened a homebrew supply store. There he met up with Yussef and they became partners. As it often happens (see Jim Koch and Sam Adams), a home brew hobby became a business. Style American Porter Inspired from the now wavering English Porter, the...
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Saison 16° Mystic Brewing Company Chelsea, Massachusetts Many people believe that the best known person or thing ever to come out of Chelsea was Horatio Alger (apologies to Howie Long and Albert DeSalvo). For me, it was, and maybe still is Chick Corea. Having tasted the beers of Mystic Brewing Company, Chick may have found some competition. The company was founded by MIT trained fermentation scientists Dr. Bryan Greenhagen, Ph.D, his wife Emily Greenhagen and professional brewer James Nicholson. Their focus is...
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Sam Adams Griffin’s Bow Jamaica Plain, MA (sometimes) In April 1985, when Samuel Adams Boston Lager made its debut in about 25 bars and restaurants in Boston, the company had no office, no computers, and no distributors. Jim Koch and his partner, Rhonda Kallman, were the only employees. They spent most of their time going bar to bar just trying to sample people on this different kind of beer. The beer caught on faster than anyone expected. By the end of the year sales of Samuel Adams beer had reached 500...
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Dark Element Element Brewing Company Millers Falls, Massachusetts Element Brewing Company believes firmly in the fusion of art, science, and beer. Their hand-crafted, bottle conditioned ales don’t fit neatly into any box and their size allows them to be innovative in their brewing techniques. They have created hybrids of styles that test the flavors, dimensions, and boundaries of beer. The highest-quality ingredients are used, including heirloom grains from Europe, domestic and international hops, and their own...
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Beer Tasting This Friday 2/24 It’s February which means it is time to shake things up a little because we’ve all been stuck in the house too long waiting for winter to be over. Wait, have we even had winter this year? For the past few years we do a monthly wine tasting in the store and have offered the Wine of the Month Club. This year since we started the Beer of the Month Club people have been asking when we will start doing Beer tastings. Well this Friday we will be starting a new Beer tasting...
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