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Boston’s First Blind Beer Fest Will Make You a Smarter Drinker

A crisp lager, a refreshing IPA, a rich milk stout—what’s your favorite beer? Some beer fans like certain brews for different experiences: A mixed-fermentation sour […]

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Aeronaut Brewing Company Is Suing One of Its Founders

The new, Boston-area contract brewery FAB Beer says its cans are vehicles for art and activism—but in a new lawsuit, the FAB founder’s former business […]

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Weekly Digest: A Medford Pub Opens with Detroit-Style Pizza, and More Must-Know Food News

It’s a busy time to be a food lover in Boston. Here, an easily digestible roundup of the restaurant news stories you need to know […]

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Backlash Beer Has Closed Its Roxbury Taproom

Boston is down one of its best brewery taprooms. After just more than a year in business, Backlash Beer quietly closed down its Roxbury taproom […]

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Aeronaut Brewing Founder’s New FAB Beer Project Is Making “Beer for the Sake of Art and Activism”

The unorthodoxy of the Donald Trump presidency has led to a lot of historic moments over the past few years, but it was a relatively […]

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Here’s Your First Look at Dorchester Brewing Company’s Rooftop Beer Hall

On New Year’s Eve, one party on Massachusetts Avenue is celebrating not just a new year, not just a new decade, but also a new […]

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High Street Place Will Have a Newburyport Brewing Taproom, Quirky Doughnuts, and More

Boston’s year of the food hall is extending into 2020, but when the cool court High Street Place finally lands downtown, there will be plenty […]

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Weekly Digest: Mariel Underground and Lily P’s Chicken Open, and More Must-Know Food News

It’s a busy time to be a food lover in Boston. Here, an easily digestible roundup of the restaurant news stories you need to know […]

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Brighton Has a New Spot for Sausages, Beer, and Lobster Rangoon Grilled Cheese

Brato Brewhouse + Kitchen is a beer-driven restaurant concept that was fermented over the course of 400 pop-up events—and now it’s settled down in Brighton. […]

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Distraction Brewing Company Is Finally Open in Roslindale

Nearly two years since the residents of Roslindale learned they would get a brewery to call their very own, Distraction Brewing Company is now in […]

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Notch Will Open a Second Brewery, Taproom, and Beer Garden in Brighton

Hidden in plain sight along the fast-changing Western Avenue corridor of Brighton is a portal to Bavaria—or maybe Bohemia. A second Notch brewery, taproom, and […]

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Here’s Why Boston’s Truly Original Mystic Brewery Is Calling It Quits

The Boston beer scene will soon be a little less effervescent, Chelsea will lose its only brewery, and the Orange Dino IPA will really be extinct. […]

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First Look at the Sun-Soaked Trillium Brewing Taproom in the Fenway

UPDATE, Oct. 23, 5 p.m.: At long last, Trillium Fenway starts pouring pints on Thursday, Oct. 24. On tap is Riverway IPA, the latest in Trillium’s […]

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Here’s Where to Celebrate Oktoberfest around Boston This Fall

Looking for a place to lift your stein and shout Prost! this fall—without a peak-season trip to Bavaria? There’s no need to leave greater Boston, […]

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The Boston Public Market Has a Local Beer Shop Once Again

Locavores can once again pick up a six-pack of New England beer along with other provisions at the Boston Public Market. Boston Beer Alley is […]