In 2016, the Rhode Island brewing community welcomed Long Live Beerworks to its ranks. We’re already psyched for the new beermakers that are ramping up to start pouring alluring new concoctions in 2017. Cranston will get its first nano-brewery with Morgan Clark Snyder Jr., who honed his craft as an assistant brewer at the Bronx […]
Go on any brewery tour these days and they’ll try to stump you by asking to name the four ingredients of beer. If you slept through Beer 101, it’s barley, hops, yeast and water. But that’s just the basics and the law according to the German Reinheitsgebot (Beer Purity Law of 1516). Today American breweries are […]
For two decades, Sean Larkin has been synonymous with brewing in Rhode Island. From Trinity Brewhouse to Revival to Brutopia to his work with Narragansett Beer on their mash-ups, Lovecraft and specialty releases, he’s built an esteemed rep with his diverse and award-winning brews. Sean will be sharing craft beer enlightenment at one of the […]
So, you may have heard of this thing called Beervana, the Nirvana for beer nerds. But such beer lovers — and food lovers and socialites and human beings alike — need more than just one day to experience the finest craft beers at the bars/restaurants/liquor stores that serve them. Thus, a solution: Providence Craft Beer […]
Every year since its 2008 inception, Beervana has been charging ahead of the pack of the craft beer revolution. You won’t find Budweiser, Coors, Miller, Pabst, or any of the adjunct-filled, low ABV, corporate brands at this festival. Beervana isn’t about reaching intoxication. I’ve always described it as a craft beer festival with class and […]
We’ve assembled a virtual roundtable of Rhode Island brewers to address a few topics for the Big Fall Beer Issue! Our panel of owner/brewmasters (except where noted): Armando DeDona of Long Live Beerworks, Nick Garrison of Foolproof Brewing Company, Michelle Kirms (assistant brewer) of Grey Sail Brewing of Rhode Island, Matt Richardson of Tilted Barn Brewery, Nate Broomfield of Bucket […]
The next time your partner, roommate or mother starts bitching about the bottles piling up in your recycle bin, here’s a whole new belt load of ammunition to defend your love of beer.You have the researchers at the Mediterranean Neurological Institute in Italy to thank for these recent findings. They devoted themselves to reviewing over […]
Beer-drinking usually leads to talking about beer and I’m ever-surprised by what people know, don’t know, think they know or just kinda fabricate (aka, “that’s the beer talking”). (And there’s always more to know, as ace beer writer Jason Notte tweeted last week, “The more I cover the #beer industry, the more clear it is […]
I was sitting in my favorite little beer dispensary, reading a well-loved Edgar Allen Poe compilation, when I looked up and somehow everything changed. While it was a New England summer when I walked it, it suddenly turned to fall. I was just about to hop up to the bar and examine the Oktoberfest selection when […]
Beer dinners are always a culinary treat, as well as a showcase of some fine beverages. Believe it or not, despite being in the beer industry for almost a full decade, I get to so few beer dinners. I remember fondly my very first beer dinner how during a key point in the brewery rep’s […]