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All around you can begin to see signs of the impending end of the long Vermont winter. While this has been a comparatively mild winter, by Vermont standards, the cold, the cloudiness and the shorter days wear on you after a few months. Lately we have been experiencing warmer weather (it always amazes [...]
I recently interviewed Jeff Baker, the wine and beer manager for one of my favorite Vermont beer stores, The Beverage Warehouse , and when I asked him about his favorite beer he was very quick to let me know that there where really just two classes of beer; “Belgians and non-Belgians and the Belgians are [...]
It is fairly common these days for all sorts of businesses to maintain that they include a “socially responsible mission” as a part of doing business with the rest of the world. Beer brewing businesses, of course, are among those which participate in this and some provide outstanding examples of companies altering their business [...]
It is not uncommon for me to search the Web for artifacts concerning the particular beer I am drinking at the time. I am sitting here drinking a Pennichuck Brewing “The Big O” Oktoberfest Lager and have just run across some very sad references to the Pennichuck Brewing Company. Apparently it has escaped my attention, until now, that Pennichuck has been on the brink of closure for the last month or so; a fact that now seems virtually inevitable.
I recently had the pleasure of drinking a beer called “Spring Peeper Ale” from the Maine Beer Company (www.mainebeercompany.com) out of Portland, Maine. They only sell this one beer currently, but could offer more as time allows. Their focus is on limited production of quality beer produced, hands-on, by people that obviously enjoy good beer and plan to have fun making it.
The folks at the Trapp Family Lodge, founded by Johannes von Trapp — whose family, made famous in the “Sound of Music” movie, came from Austria. The initial goal of the new brewery is to make a product which does not exist in Vermont yet; a real lager beer of the type found in the [...]
My wife (Candy) and I recently took some time to return to one of our favorite regions… the Greater Portland Maine and Portsmouth NH areas. The weather was not that great, so we “had” to spend some time in some of my favorite watering holes… not that I’m complaining, mind you.
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