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From the HopPress: Joyeux Noël

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

A very happy holiday to everyone. Hopefully you were on the “good list” and got or will get a wonderful present from someone today. It’s a cold one here in Vermont this morning; only about 6F at my house, but I [...]

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From the HopPress: The History and Lore of Wassail

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

Most of us, no doubt, are familiar with the holiday style of beer called Wassail. There are many excellent examples and I have sampled a number of them. I have to admit that I look forward to the annual renewing of [...]

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From the HopPress: Made in Vermont – The Spine of the Green Mountains

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

This is the second in a series of articles which highlight the wonderful variety of breweries available to us Vermonters. As I have told you before, with 21 in-state breweries and less than 650,000 people in the entire state, Vermont has [...]

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From the HopPress: Growler Time in Vermont

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, November 20th.

I am sitting here enjoying some nice fresh beer in the comfort of my home (a Victory Prima Pils), which I poured from a growler. This simple and enjoyable act is thanks, in part, to a recent change in the beer [...]

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From the HopPress: Boston’s Belgian Beer Fest

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, November 13th.

Last weekend my son, Jamie, and I traveled down to Boston for the annual Belgian Beer Fest. Held at the Cyclorama in the Back Bay region of Boston, this festival brings together Belgian and Belgian-style brewers as well as [...]

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From the HopPress: Halloween Beer

My latest featured article for RateBeer’s The HopPress… posted on Saturday, October 30th.

Like most modern American holidays, Halloween is more than a little over-commercialized and (I am at risk here of sounding like an old fogey) it seems to have lost some of the “mystique” and fun that it had when I was [...]

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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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