After 14 hours of travel, another 6 hours of timeshift, we arrived at Munich hotel with a hankerin to do, well, something. Oktoberfest wasn’t starting for another 12 hours so we decided to get caught in a tourist trap because, well, we’re tourists. We specifically chose our hotel because Trip Advisor told us we’d be [...]

It’s time once again for me to get out the house, and head out to some of Boston’s best beer bars to give you—yes YOU—the information you need to know regarding where to go to get your beer snobbery on. Last week I decided to inaugurate myself into this type of column by going up [...]

The Line-Up Vanilla Stout: 21 India Brown Ale: 32 Bohemian Pilsener: 33 Belgian Ale: 27 Extra Special Bitter: 39 Season’s Best Nut Brown: 23 Best: Extra Special Bitter. If someone had told me that Ye Olde Holiday Stand-by ESB was going to come out on top in this pack, I would have thought them crazy. [...]

In lieu of a beer column this week, I decided to take to the streets of Boston, for an in-depth look at the Boston homebrewing community. And by “homebrewing community,” I mean “friends of mine that happen to make their own beer.” I ask the tough questions—the kind of hard-hitting, non-nonsense journalistic fortitude you’ve come [...]