After a rainy tour of Fenway Park, Reed and I ducked into Boston Beer Works to warm up with some soup and beer. Behind the bar is this sign, Read More …

While preparing for our trip back east I asked friends for suggestions of things to do in Boston. Multiple people (and AAA) recommended the Samuel Adams Brewery tour. I’m not Read More …

In my previous spotlight review, I hope I made it clear that I love Stone Brewing Company, even though I never liked any of their beers. Note the past tense Read More …

I’ve been a mix of busy and uninspired recently, thus the lack of new blog posts. This in no way means that my life is not still completely ruled by Read More …

Don’t judge a liquor store by its exterior. I was in Ocean Beach yesterday visiting a good friend. We walked to People’s Co-op to buy some groceries for dinner and Read More …

http://blindlady.blogspot.com/ Blind Lady Ale House, or BLAH, is an excellent place to hold court: people can come and go, there’s usually an open table and you can grab a quick Read More …

  http://www.alpinebeerco.com Spoiler alert: you will leave this place full, perhaps uncomfortably so, due to their vast beer selection and tasty barbecue. Some friends and I piled into the car Read More …

http://www.greenflashbrew.com/tasting-room.php I had never tried a beer from Green Flash before Reed started working there. I was missing out, it has by far the largest Melissa-friendly selection of any local Read More …

My first love, the ocean. If I am a beer widow then Reed is an ocean widower. Since I was a child I have loved the ocean and been drawn Read More …

http://hessbrewing.com/findus.html I am quite partial to Hess Brewing, a self-proclaimed nano-brewery, and not just because they were the first to help Reed break into the beer industry. It’s true that Read More …