Luke at blogaboutbeer.com and I added a Flickr photostream of pictures from the #mebrewfest to www.flickr.com/photos/mebrewfest and you can see lots of fun twitpics from @shipyardbrewing and @seadogbrewing of the Maine Beer Writers Guild and Maine Brewers Guild table. And don’t forget to check out blogaboutbeer.com/mebrewfest for up-to-the-minute Tweets from everyone at the festival. And [...]

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Josh on September 21st, 2009

I see a lot of crossover when I look at the worlds of craft brewing and independent bookselling.  Both are (or at least frame themselves) as small, scrappy upstarts facing off against corporate behemoths.  Both small breweries and indie bookstores promote themselves as local, unique, and a vehicle for creating choice in the market.  Whether [...]

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Josh on February 24th, 2009

One of my favorite holidays every year comes on the third weekend in February, when Beer Advocate hosts the Extreme Beer Fest at the Cyclorama in Boston.  From the Alstrom brothers themselves;
Extreme Beer Fest … Cometh! The firestorm of creativity sparked by American craft brewers rages on during the original, and 6th annual, Extreme Beer [...]

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Josh on February 13th, 2009

There’s something you should know about getting the best beer in America - it ain’t easy.
Kate the Great is a Russian Imperial Stout brewed by Portsmouth Brewery in Portsmouth, NH.  In December of 2007, Beer Advocate magazine named Kate the Great the Best Beer in America (and 2nd-best on Planet Earth), based on the beer [...]

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Josh on February 2nd, 2009

This review is a repost of my original review, written for Murmur.com.
I grew up in a small town in Maine - not quite as tiny as the 700-person Oxford, Iowa, but pretty damn close. Living in a small town, you hear the stories of practically everyone there, and discover the wealth of life experience [...]

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