Newport Storm Angel’s Envy – Our Coastal Extremists are continuing to evolve and create new unique brews, experimenting with a good deal of success, I might add. A dark, semi-translucent porter with strong vanilla notes from the rum barrel and malt interaction. It’s surprisingly light and drinkable for a porter. One of the brewers mentioned […]
What international festival takes place every autumn, has lots of beer, good food, strong men and beautiful women? If you answered Oktoberfest, you’d be a couple thousand miles off … and in another country. No my friends, the festival I refer to is the Great International Beer Festival (GIBF) and competition. The GIBF comes to […]
Rob Tod fell into brewing shortly after college, and has since risen to great heights within the fermented fluid manufacturing field. As founder and head beer scientist of Allagash, he’s helped advance craft beer and in particular, brought Belgian styles to the forefront of the craft beer world, everything from White Ales to Trappists, Lambics […]
Craft beer has become a leviathan in our time, undergoing a renaissance of sorts in the last 20 years. After decades of nothing but watered-down, factory-produced pilsners, having such an exploding variety of beer has spawned an epicurean culture that both echoes the wine culture, and yet maintains a distinct identity of its own. Beer […]
What fall beers are you drinking? Narragansett Bohemian Pilsner – While the main selling point for Narragansett, besides the historical cans, has been the surprisingly decent quality of their cheap pilsner, this is also a company that knows how to satisfy the craft beer crowd. Once again, they turned to local Brew Maestro Sean Larkin, […]
Sons of Liberty is changing how Rhode Islanders drink whiskey– and taking you behind the scenes Providence has landed a spot in the top 10 Travel and Leisure “Best Craft Beer” cities in the country (but yeah, we did get beat out by Missouri; sorry everyone). With beer season upon us, everyone is in a […]
Looking forward to all of the RI beer festivals this season? Pete’s got you covered Oktoberfest season is upon us, and I don’t just mean that Sam Adams has released their much-loved, if incorrectly spelled, Octoberfest fall seasonal. The kids are going back to school, the temperature is dropping, the leaves are beginning to turn, […]
One last hurrah to summer beers and a sneak peek at what’s brewing for the fall It’s a well-known truth that great things usually come in pairs. So too is it with the Rhode Island Brew Fest Summer edition. Matt Gray and Gray Matter Marketing followed up their wildly successful winter brew fest with an […]
The Fifteenth Annual Newport Storm Luau drops on Fort Adams this weekend. RI’s first microbrewery has been throwing this shindig for as long as I can remember, but that’s not saying much with my memory. Not only is this yet another beer event to benefit a good cause, the Fort Adams Trust itself, but it’s […]
“A bunch of weirdos with strange machines and art” Ah, it’s that time of year again; the doldrums of summer have arrived with each day being more hot and humid than the last. To fight the oppressive heat, you reach for your favorite beer and hear … CRUSH! KILL! DESTROY! A small squad of mechanical […]