Most of the time, I write about beers that I find interesting, tasty, strange or unique. But what about the bad beers? I generally don’t talk about the bad ones, but today I’d like to talk about what exactly makes a bad beer bad. Without naming any names, I recently sought out, purchased and sampled […]
Oh, yes. This is more like it. Sometimes I find myself sitting amidst a massive list of strange and unusual brews looking for something unique and different. Sometimes this pays off, and sometimes it doesn’t and my tongue never forgives me. Thankfully, this is one of those times that I made exactly the right decision […]
The NecronomiCon mission statement declares that it is “a celebration of weird fiction and its roots in the city of Providence.” “Weird fiction” is the phrase that PVD homeboy Howard Phillips Lovecraft used to describe his horrific and phantasmagorical tales. H.P. was born in 1890 – the same year that Narragansett Brewing Company hit the […]
Folks, I’m admitting it up front: This article is not about Lovecraft or the love of Lovecraft. But it does involve the melding of precision and creativity – by a different kind of artist, right here in Providence. On Wickenden Street, to be exact. The East End A golden-dim interior opens into one of the […]
My fondness for coffee beers is renowned, but sometimes I think certain people out there are just trying to play games with me. So I’ll rail against sweet, fruity, summery beers and extol the virtues of moderated, careful hop usage, but sometimes a beer lands in my lap that just makes me wonder if I’ve […]
It’s been a coupla months since we’ve rounded up some beer news. So let’s get to it! Revival Brewing Company celebrated its own Independence Day on July 5 with the installation of its very own canning line. Pinky Swear (a 3.7% ABV Berliner Weisse), White Electric Coffee Stout (8.5%) and Conga, an Imperial IPA (9.5%), […]
You will not find a single subject to more perfectly divide beer nerds than that of beer cocktails. There are two schools of thought: The first is that a delicious beer can and should be combined with complementary flavors in creative and interesting ways. The second is that mixing beer with anything else is blasphemous […]
I was browsing for something light and summery to fit the first day in six months I received vitamin D naturally when I came across a sight that brought me to an abrupt and disappointed stop. Rebel Grapefruit IPA? I sighed and tried to remember when our beloved Boston Beer led the pack instead of […]
The time, it flies! On June 28, 2016, Governor Gina Raimondo signed House Bill 8100 Substitute B and Senate Bill 3053 Substitute A, which allowed breweries to sell 288 ounces of beer for off-premise consumption (in any combo of growlers, bottles, and cans – a significant increase from the former 72-ounce limit) and serve 36 […]
It took some time, but Rhode Island is finally becoming the craft beer destination it always should have been. From the multitudinous beer bars scattered all over the Ocean State to the upswell in new breweries opening faster and more frequently than Starbucks, it’s a great time and place to be a beer nerd. In […]