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- Vermont Consolidation: Long Trail Buying Otter Creek/Wolaver’s by Brookston Beer Bulletin on Nov 25, 2009 in Breweries News New England Organic Vermont
In case you missed it, yesterday my friend and colleague Andy Crouch dropped the bombshell that Long Trail Brewing of Bridgewater Corners, Vermont was in the early stages of purchasing Otter Creek / Wolaver’s Brewing, also located in Vermont. N...
- A Clockwork Orange Approach To Alcoholism by Brookston Beer Bulletin on Nov 25, 2009 in Editorial News Alcoholism Neo-Prohibitionists
This is a strange one, and I’m not entirely sure what to make of it, though my natural skeptical tendencies run toward worry. As reported in the USA Today last week in an article entitled Kudzu Compound Could Help Alcoholics Quit Drinking, R...
- The BA’s Newest Brewster by Brookston Beer Bulletin on Nov 25, 2009 in Just For Fun News Announcements
If you’ve spent any time in the brewing world or homebrewing, you know doubt know Erin Fay Glass, who’s the Membership Coordinator / Brewery Detective for the Brewers Association, while her husband, Gary Glass, is director of the American...
- Beer Lover’s Britain by Brookston Beer Bulletin on Nov 24, 2009 in Beers Breweries Beer Books England UK
Looking for a nice overview of the beer scene in Great Britain? 2009 British Beer Writer of the Year Jeff Evans has a comprehensive and affordable solution. He’s written Beer Lover’s Britain and it’s available at his Inside Beer onl...
- Utopias 2009 by Brookston Beer Bulletin on Nov 23, 2009 in Beers Reviews
On Thursday of last week, Boston Beer brewer Bert Boyce was in town o the last leg of a three-city tour of California to introduce the 2009 edition of Samuel Adams‘ Utopias. Boyce is originally from California, and I first met him while he was...
- Bottle Openers Made By Blacksmiths by Brookston Beer Bulletin on Nov 23, 2009 in Beers Just For Fun Related Pleasures Packaging
A few years ago, my friend Tom Peters, the co-owner of Monk’s Cafe in Philadelphia, celebrated a big anniversary, I can’t recall which one it was — five years maybe, ten? Anyway, he had a local blacksmith experiment with making the perf...






