Every year the American Homebrew Association encourages homebrewers around the world to gather around their kettles and welcome spring by brewing the biggest batch of homebrew ever! This event, Big Brew Day falls on Saturday, 3 May 2014 this year. We up the game by combining Big Brew Day with a food drive in[…]
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All Stores Closed for Easter
All five locations will be closed for Easter Sunday, April 20th. We will be open normal business hours the Saturday before, and Monday after.
Making Meads the Modern Way
My meads have a terrible track record of being mediocre to rubbing alcohol. Try as I might I just never got the knack of making a good standard mead. In researching what I may have been doing wrong, I ran across this excellent sticky thread on the Homebrew Talk forums. The secret, they said, was[…]
Local Author Meet-up – Belmont, MA
One of our customers just gave us the heads up that Audacity of Hops author Tom Acitelli will be appearing at the Belmont Public Library next Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 7:PM. This is to be a free event with a beer tasting provided by the Craft Beer Cellar. Should be a good time! Link[…]
Meet the Author: Beer Terrain
On Thursday, 20 February 2014 we’ve arranged for Beer Terrain author Jonathan Cook to be at the Harvard Square John Harvard’s Brew House in the semi-private room at 7:PM. He will be discussing his book Beer Terrain: Field to Glass from the Berkshires to the Maine Coast. The focus of the book is on locally[…]
Hop Rhizome Pre-order now OPEN!
Here’s the complete list. You can pre-order at your local store or shop online!
Seeking Enthusiastic, Casual beer drinkers
Want to spend an afternoon drinking other people’s beer? Expand you beer palate. Try things that probably aught not have been tried. Drink beer AND get a free lunch! The 19th Annual Boston Homebrew Competition is looking for judges. Experience not necessary! They’ll match you with other experienced and BJCP-certified judges on flights of a[…]
NERAX 2014 Approaches!
One of the real joys of living in the Boston area is the annual NERAX festival, the New England Real Ale eXhibition. Real ale is a delicious way to approach tasting a beer as the lower carbonation and slightly warmer temperature allows the full flavor of the beer to emerge. This flavor evolves over time[…]
All Stores Closed New Year’s Day
All five locations will be closed New Year’s Day. We will be open normal business hours all other days this week.
Fresh-pressed Cider Available for Pre-purchase!
We’ve made a connection with a Stow, MA cider presser and are pleased to announce that we will be able to bring fresh-pressed cider to our Cambridge, Weymouth, and West Boylston stores on Wednesdays starting 18 September 2013. We’ll leave the blending to the presser and the decision on sulphiting or not to you! Here’s[…]