At the request of a Redhook employee and friend of Ben Harris, the all too young 26 year old employee of the Redhook Brewery who died as a result of an accident at the Portsmouth brewery, I am passing along information for a fund established to help support his family. A fund has been created [...]
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The local ABC affiliate (WCVB) ran an episode on its excellent Chronicle program this evening profiling the wide variety of fantastic brewers that we have in Massachusetts. For those viewers who made their way here, I welcome you and hope you enjoy BeerScribe.com and local craft beer. I’ll try and post the video when it [...]
Charlie Papazian, founder of the Brewers Association, has a column and poll up asking readers to weigh in on the debate continuing over the definition of craft beer and craft brewer. I’m not going to wade into that whole mess again (read all of its links for my views) except to say, with regards to [...]
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In a small industrial park near downtown Tampa, a buzz continues to grow louder, emanating from the stainless steel tanks of a tiny Florida brewery. The hype about Cigar City Brewing started long before the brewery even brewed its first batch. Run by a beer columnist for a local Tampa newspaper, Cigar City’s founders started [...]
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Despite offering more than 1,000 events, word out of Philadelphia was quiet during its recent beer week. And then came the grumblings, first through some errant Twitter and Facebook posts, culminating in a critical editorial by the local City Paper. It appears that all is not well in the much celebrated beer town. The take [...]
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