Most of us, no doubt, are familiar with the holiday style of beer called Wassail. There are many excellent examples and I have sampled a number of them. I have to admit that I look forward to the annual renewing of the “winter warmer” traditions as well as the beers and other libations that come [...]
This is the second in a series of articles which highlight the wonderful variety of breweries available to us Vermonters. As I have told you before, with 21 in-state breweries and less than 650,000 people in the entire state, Vermont has the very best ratio of breweries to people in the country. In my first article in this series – Made in Vermont: Burlington Region – I included a brief review of seven of the breweries in Vermont’s northwest corner. In today’s article I will focus on the more northern central region of the state and another six breweries which can be found within this region.
One of the hot topics over the last several weeks has been the media storm surrounding Four Loko and other so-called alcoholic energy drinks; that is, drinks that contain both alcohol and caffeine as well as other substances intended to keep you awake/alert. In a potentially final blow to the sales of this class of [...]
I am sitting here enjoying some nice fresh beer in the comfort of my home (a Victory Prima Pils), which I poured from a growler. This simple and enjoyable act is thanks, in part, to a recent change in the beer laws here in Vermont. Growlers sales are on an upward trend nationwide and Vermont has joined a growing number of states that allow larger quantities of “fresh” beer to be sold in retail locations other than a brewery.
Last weekend my son, Jamie, and I traveled down to Boston for the annual Belgian Beer Fest. Held at the Cyclorama in the Back Bay region of Boston, this festival brings together Belgian and Belgian-style brewers as well as distributors of these beers for a celebration of a type of beer that I have come [...]
As I have said before, Vermont is Beer Country! Back in 2009 the Brewers Association declared Vermont as having the highest per capita concentration of breweries of any state in the land (Breweries Per Capita). This awesome designation was awarded based on the 2008 Vermont census and the presence of, at the time, 19 craft [...]
Like most modern American holidays, Halloween is more than a little over-commercialized and (I am at risk here of sounding like an old fogey) it seems to have lost some of the “mystique” and fun that it had when I was much younger. The once simple act of dressing up like a ghost (my favorite) [...]
It has been a good summer here in Vermont; plenty of sunshine and some very warm days. However as we head into October and the core of our autumn season, our thoughts and actions have slowly moved from summer-time to the fall harvest, bright foliage (complete with the hordes of out of state “leaf peepers”) and the last of the outdoor beer festivals of the year. A couple of weeks ago I attended the 2010 rendition of SIPtemberfest at the Mad River Glen in Waitsfield, Vermont.
Earlier this month, the Saturday of the long Labor Day weekend, I traveled down the spine of the Green Mountains to the Mount Snow Ski Resort to attend their 16th Annual Brewers Festival. You geographers all know that the Green Mountains almost split Vermont in half from north to south. These mountains and their placement [...]
Last Saturday I traveled to tiny and quite rural W. Campton New Hampshire to visit the 14th Annual New England Homebrewer’s Jamboree. Sponsored by at least six homebrew clubs and featuring more than 120 competition entries of beer, wine, cider, mead and other specialty beverages, this has to be the quintessential event for all the talented homebrewer’s across the northeastern US… a true celebration of handcrafted beverages.
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