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From the HopPress: SIPtemberfest 2010

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, October 9th.

It has been a good summer here in Vermont; plenty of sunshine and some very warm days. However as we head into October and the core of our autumn season, our thoughts and actions have slowly moved from summer-time to [...]

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From the HopPress: The Mount Snow Brewers Festival

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, September 25th.

Earlier this month, the Saturday of the long Labor Day weekend, I traveled down the spine of the Green Mountains to the Mount Snow Ski Resort to attend their 16th Annual Brewers Festival. You geographers all know that the Green Mountains [...]

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From the HopPress: New England Homebrewer’s Jamboree

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, September 18th.

Last Saturday I traveled to tiny and quite rural W. Campton New Hampshire to visit the 14th Annual New England Homebrewer’s Jamboree. Sponsored by at least six homebrew clubs and featuring more than 120 competition entries of beer, wine, cider, mead [...]

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From the HopPress: The Session #43: The New Brew Kids

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, September 4th.

I am taking a step away from the type of article that you normally read from me to participate in something that has become somewhat of a beer writer’s tradition; The Session. The Session is a group writing project that was [...]

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From the HopPress: Harpoon BBQ Championships of New England

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, July 31st.

Each July for the last 10 years some of New England’s best barbequers and grillers have descended upon tiny Windsor, VT for the New England Championships of BBQ, which is hosted on the grounds of the Harpoon Brewery. This New England [...]

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From the HopPress: The Vermont Brewers Festival

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, July 24th.

Last weekend was the 18th annual Vermont Brewer’s Festival (VBF) in Burlington, Vermont. I had not taken this event in for a couple of years, so I was really looking forward to visiting with some of the new breweries that were [...]

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Follow-up on TPT’s Northern Forest: Beer & Cheese Tasting

Last Sunday afternoon I was one of about 10 lucky people that attended the Three Penny Taproom’s Celebrate the Northern Forest: Craft Beer and Artisan Cheese tasting event.  The cheeses we sampled were specially selected for this event by Montpelier’s Jeff Roberts (author of The Atlus of American Artisan Cheese and an instructor [...]

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The Harpoon Championships of New England Barbecue

It has become a summer tradition over the last several years for us to attend this wonderfully fun event in Windsor, VT.  For details you can visit the Harpoon Brewery site at http://www.harpoonbrewery.com/index.cfm?pid=28568.

What: Celebrating our 10th year in 2010 A celebration of the best of Summer—Fresh beer, great BBQ, & live music The [...]

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