You find yourself in Burlington, Vermont, and you don't know why. You're not frightened. You're where you're supposed to be. It's night. You walk down Church Street and get a Bombay Grab IPA at Vermont Pub and Brewery. This is delicious, you think. After tipping the angelic woman behind the bar, you walk up St. … Continue reading Hill Farmstead Brewery is a Microbrew Dream
Bars
The Maine Beer Company Expands Their Operation and Our Palates
I fear I'm becoming the boy who cried beer. You know, I tell you, You gotta drink this! It's the best beer ever! or You need to visit this pub and drink their IPA! Only to toss out another tasty brew you must try or an establishment you must visit a week later. It's not … Continue reading The Maine Beer Company Expands Their Operation and Our Palates
Rising Tide Brewery: Portland’s Best New Bar
I'm unapologetically breaking my moratorium on writing about beer and beer joints. Why? Life's too short not to indulge our passions. Some people love the symphony, I love beer. I'll never quite fit into the sports coat I bought for high table dinners at Oxford. I'm a low table kind of guy. Now on to … Continue reading Rising Tide Brewery: Portland’s Best New Bar
Experience the Spatial Bliss of Portland’s In’finiti Distillation and Fermentation
I once heard the poet Derek Walcott read a poem where in it he vows not to write any more poems about the moon. That's the way I feel about writing about beer and beer joints. Wolcott has the moon; I have beer. If I indulge every writing whim I have for praising an IPA … Continue reading Experience the Spatial Bliss of Portland’s In’finiti Distillation and Fermentation
Drinking Beer Can Save Your Community
We live in a world that is becoming increasingly less diverse. Languages are dying by the minute as indigenous peoples become modernized. Dialects are getting watered down by the influx of media. Local color in every nook and cranny of the world is under assault from the far reach of corporate brand-washing. A beautiful reaction … Continue reading Drinking Beer Can Save Your Community
Word Portland: Come for a Pint, Stay for the Words
Literary readings can be sad affairs. At their worst, they're either quiet and bleached, the audience members every so often making an "Mmmm" sound at appropriate times when an image or phrase brings a slight tremor to their soul. Or, they too often exist at the other end of the literary reading spectrum where audience … Continue reading Word Portland: Come for a Pint, Stay for the Words
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