Beer

Distraction Brewing Company signed a lease at 2 Belgrade Avenue, Roslindale
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Distraction Brewing Company Plans a Taproom in Roslindale Village

It won’t be all lit-up trees, mulled cider, and wintertime cheer at the upcoming Roslindale Holiday Market—at least one vendor is bringing daydreams of summer […]

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Take a Look Inside the New Taproom at Samuel Adams Brewery

It’s now possible to skip the tour and head straight to the taps. In keeping with the industry trend, Samuel Adams Brewery recently opened an 80-seat taproom […]

Row 34 launches a "Bookshelf Beer" series with a magnum bottle of Tommie Sjef Wild Ales
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Row 34 Debuts a New Rare Beer Release Series

Stocking the cellar with limited-release beers is a fun hobby for many a beer fan, but the envy-induced Instagram likes that might result from the […]

Roslindale substation
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Trillium Hints About the Roslindale Substation

Trillium Brewing Company teased something potentially exciting in its Instagram Story last night. It was simply a geo-tagged view of the facade of the Roslindale substation, but […]

City Life

Sam Adams Is Throwing Support Behind a Crazy Plan to Buy AB InBev

Brewers of craft beer, sick of getting pushed around by the big guys like Anheuser-Busch, have a ludicrous idea: They want to crowdsource enough money—$213 […]

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The Massachusetts Brewers Guild Partners with Lyft

The Massachusetts Brewers Guild just released a beer “passport” app, but the industry can’t expect beer fans to navigate their phones while also navigating their car. So, […]

Down the Road Beer Co. taproom
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Down the Road Beer Lands in Everett in Early November

At long last, the highly anticipated home of Down the Road Beer Co. is almost ready to open. The Everett taproom—and vintage pinball arcade—debuts to […]

Untold Brewing scituate brewery open
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Look Inside Scituate’s Untold Brewing

The Untold Brewing cofounders are letting their beers speak to them—tell their own story, if you will—as they come out of the fermentors, which is […]

Boston breweries GABF winners 2017
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Two Boston Breweries Won Medals at the 2017 Great American Beer Fest

This past weekend, while Bostonians were enjoying the unseasonably warm weather (and maybe an Eventide lobster roll), two of the area’s best-known breweries were adding […]

Mystic releases Union Square Donuts Boston Cream Stout at its Chelsea brewery this weekend
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Mystic Has Experimental Beer in the Can

While you probably know Mystic Brewery best for its corked-and-caged bottles of Belgian-style ales and saisons, the six-year-old Chelsea company always had canned beer in […]

City Life

A Beer Distributor Will Have to Pay Its $2.6 Million Pay-To-Play Fine

A Massachusetts beer distributor will have to pay its $2.6 million “pay-to-play” fine, a court has ruled, teeing up a record-high assessment for the controversial practice […]

Arts & Entertainment

Beer Snobs: Crafty Date Ideas for Hop Heads in Love

Welcome to our Date Night series! Each week, we’ll share a new set of recommendations for you and your sweetheart. Sure, champagne and wine may have more romantic connotations—but […]

Devil's Purse Brewing Handline Kolsch
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Night Shift Distributing Will Bring Devil’s Purse and More to Boston

While many Massachusetts brewers, the state’s Brewers Guild, and others continue the debate around how beer is distributed here, the region’s by-brewers-for-brewers distribution company has […]

Widowmaker Brewing taproom
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Widowmaker Brewing Is Now Open in Braintree

If you spent the summery weekend south of Boston, perhaps you had the first sips of the area’s newest local beer. Widowmaker Brewing debuted Saturday, […]

The Wachusett Brew Yard in Westminster
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The Wachusett Brew Yard Will Pop Up on City Hall Plaza

There’s no reason to stop drinking outside just because fall is in the air. In fact, the autumn pop-up on City Hall Plaza is a […]