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Go with the flow: Delivery, loans may keep breweries afloat
Note: After this column, The Beer Snob will be on hiatus until things turn around and brew pubs can safely reopen. There he was, standing in my driveway: my bartender handing me a beer. This was not a...
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Beer snob: ‘Lady Lager’ goes against the grain with Rhythm Brewing
Alisa Bowens-Mercado is used to stepping into unfamiliar territory with confidence and a twist. Twenty years ago she did it as a black woman owning a Latin dance studio, and two years ago, she ventured...
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Beer Snob: Connecticut breweries join movement for racial equality
As calls for police reform and steps toward justice continue, several Connecticut breweries are heeding the calls. Condemn it as virtue signaling. Say they’re playing politics when they should just...
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Beer Snob: Hope in hops at Sharon’s Smokedown Farm
By WILL SISS Republican-American SHARON – A hop farmer who wants a quality crop aggressively monitors and attacks disease. Now that it’s harvest time, no one appreciates this more than an...
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Beer Snob: Two books filter world events through beer
School’s back in session so it’s time to read some world history. Don’t worry, it’s filtered through beer. Two books on the syllabus are especially informative and entertaining: “Pilsner: How the Beer...
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Beer Snob: Repurposing gives stout second chance
If this proverb doesn’t catch on, I’ll be very disappointed: “When life gives you chai stout, make chai stout cookies.” Rolls right off the tongue. Why was I inspired to create this idiom? It started...
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Beer Snob: Athletic Brewing proves n/a beer is beer
When Athletic Brewing Company opened in Stratford two years ago, I scoffed. A non-alcoholic brewery? Marketed to people who, like, move around quickly on purpose? It’s not real beer, I thought. I read...
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Beer snob: For great fest, remember to invite people
If you’ve been missing beer festivals, I have the solution and cautionary tale just for you. Setting up a private, socially distanced beer festival is easy. Creating a memorable one with all the bells...
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Beer Snob: Maltheads, unite! Our time is here
Beer is made up of four ingredients, but you’d be excused if upon seeing a recent tap list you thought they were hops, chunky yeast, water and more hops. Malted grain plays a tremendous role in every...
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Beer Snob: ‘Beer and Racism’ an awkward, telling read
Draft beer is a lot of things: inventive, labile and piquant come to mind via the thesaurus. It’s also quite white, which for most people is not something they think about. For the sociology professors...
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Beer Snob: Breweries, festivals ride power of innovation
It’s all about adapting now. As state safety restrictions force local breweries to manufacture as much patience as beer, festivals continue to innovate. The Connecticut Department of Consumer...
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Beer Snob: Cheers to breweries, young and old, and better times
It’s the time of year to hoist a mug Clink from a distance and chug-a-lug To Connecticut breweries new and old Small and gigantic, mild and bold It’s been a rough year, no stretch to say For small...
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Beer Snob: Clocktown co-brewers off to tasty start in second careers
It took me too long but I finally experienced a mighty round of beers at Clocktown Brewing in Thomaston. For this delay, I blame my toddler, my cute excuse for everything. Not only did I sample all 10...
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Beer snob: Beer smarts from … Instagram?
Of all the places online to receive an education, I would not have chosen Instagram. The Facebook-owned social media platform emphasizes the visual over the written word. Unlike Facebook, it’s more...
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Beer snob: Defying logic with hybrid brews
There are some beers that defy logic. No, I’m not continuing my rant about marshmallow sour stouts laced with Fruity Pebbles and their fellow travelers. I’m talking about styles that mix one style into...
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Beer snob: From classroom, courtroom to brewhouse
It was toward evening at Frost Beer Works in Vermont a few years ago when Scott DeMeo and Frank Barretta chatted up a man who answered a slew of their brewing questions. “Little did we know that we...
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Beer Snob: Hieronymus explores brewing with nature’s ingredients
Breweries continue to explore the outer reaches of what ingredients to include, and much of it is on the sweet or sour ends of the spectrum. What I haven’t seen much in Connecticut is the use of local...
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Beer Snob: Journeyman Watson settles in, brewing for two
John Watson has been brewing beer for half his life. During those 25 years, he’s won hundreds of homebrew competition awards, designed others’ breweries and collaborated with brewers in several states....
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Beer Snob: #metoo brewing, and what should follow
Every industry has the layer you see, the layer you want to see and the layer that is. In craft beer, starting last month, the layer that is came to light via a very modern source: social media....
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Beer Snob: What does ‘American’ mean in a beer?
American is a brand, almost as much as it is a nationality. Whether it’s cars, music or beer, to be American is to be … what? Exceptional? Bold? Manufactured within the confines of the United States?...
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