NERAX, the New England Real Ale eXhibition, kicks off its 18th annual festival tonight, bringing 100+ cask conditioned beers and ciders to South Boston over the course of four days. More
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Chris Brook Correspondent
Chris Brook is a writer living in Somerville. When he isn’t watching TV, he spends the bulk of his time taking pictures of dogs, visiting local craft breweries, and following baseball and basketball. He writes regularly for the information security blog Threatpost.com and records a biweekly television podcast with his fellow Mainers called Hellovision!
Stories by Chris Brook
Saying Night Shift has come a long way in the last several years is a bit of understatement at this point. The brewery has ramped things up so much over the last few years that the ghost-white sheetrock walls of its first facility in Everett are surely as distant a memory for the brewers as the neon, 10-gallon orange homebrew buckets the three first used in a Ball Square kitchen to prototype beers. More
Saturday marks Saison Day, the second iteration of a holiday conceived last year by Portland, Maine’s Allagash Brewery. After a grueling winter that’s tested the mettle of all of its inhabitants, Boston is long overdue to enjoy a few spring-like beers. More
There’s going to be no better place than Boston this weekend to illustrate how “weird” has become the new “normal” in the beer world. At Beer Advocate’s 12th annual Extreme Beer Fest, there’ll be more than enough coffee-chocolate pale ales, chili stouts, and blueberry Berliner Weisses to shake a stick at. More
There are few styles of beer as underappreciated as the gruit. The unhopped and earthy ales, brewed before hops were widely introduced, are rooted in ancient brewing lore. And while they’ve long had their place in the history books, over the past several years a handful of brewers have devoted time to reviving the style. More
Much has been written about the parallels between beer and wine so we’ll skip the pretense, but really, if there’s one thing to take from it: These days it shouldn’t be out of place to see a Belgian quad or a Russian imperial stout instead of merlot or syrah next to the cranberry sauce or gravy boat at Thanksgiving. Beers can have just as much nuance as wine and often pair better with food. Some beers have a time and place. The following local brews deserve a spot on your table Thursday. More
Drink Craft Beer makes its triumphant return to Space 57 in downtown Boston this weekend for its third annual Fall to Winter Fest – a who’s-who when it comes to this season’s local beer and, especially this time through, cider. More
The last time Mystic Brewery released a beer from its Vinland series, it sort of wound up being the equivalent of a rookie hitting a grand slam on the first pitch of an at bat. More
There was a time, long, long ago that Boston beer nerds could go to their local liquor store and find bottles from Brasserie Cantillon, the tiny, much-lauded Belgian brewery best known for brewing world-class lambics. The bottles – nuanced, tart, often tough to find beers – gathered dust alongside other Belgian beers. More
Have you been converted by the Narragansett Del’s Shandy cult yet?
Say what you will about shandies. Even if you find some of them too sweet or cloying for your tastes, you can’t deny that Harpoon’s Big Squeeze, Steigl’s Radler (#TeamRadler) and that ever-ubiquitous green and yellow tallboy can (that’s been flying off shelves since mid-May) have caught on big time this summer. More
