Yesterday Patrick and I sat down for a marathon of tasting, assessing, and discussing this phenomenon. We walked through their history, mentioned all the different ways breweries are making them, trotted through a list of characteristic features, and then, importantly, tasted them.
Read MoreEach era is characterized by certain indelible images. Circa 1967, hippies in flower-pattern dresses, cut-off shorts, dancing in mud. Circa 1992, skinny kids slouching around in flannel shirts. And circa 2017, people in Red Sox t-shirts standing in line to buy cans of New England IPA.
Read MoreI will not bore you with the details except to say that an incredibly ambitious employee of East Coast Towing managed to spy our Virginia-plated rental and remove it within the 15 minutes we were in the store.
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