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16 Yankee Brew News December 2012/January 2013 BLUE HILLS BREWERY TRY A FRESH LOCAL DUNKELWEIZEN AND MILK STOUT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON! Look for Antimatter 5 to be released in January 2013 Currently brewing: IPA, Black Hops, Imperial Red IPA, Comet Tail Pale Ale, Dunkelweizen Winter Wheat, Three Peak Milk Stout HANDCRAFTED BEER IN CANTON, MA Beer Hall Expansion Harpoon Brewery will open a new 250-person beer hall in January at the brewery’s Boston Seaport District location. Floor-to-ceiling glass walls will overlook the kegging line and warehouse, and westernfacing windows will provide panoramic views of downtown Boston and Boston Harbor. Harpoon renovated additional space on the second floor of its building in order to welcome the increasing number of beer lovers visiting the brewery for tours and tastings. Visitors will be able to enjoy a pint of freshly brewed beer poured from one of the 20 taps while sitting the bar or at one of the family-style trestle tables. Pretzels will be hand twisted and baked on site, served with an assortment of toppings. An automated growler filler, imported from Austria, will be installed for beer-to-go. A function area, with catered food options, will be available for groups, and guided brewery tours will be offered daily from a network of catwalks above the brewery floor. The handmade bar top and tables in the tasting room were built with butternut wood salvaged from Vermont forests. Brewery Progress Construction and renovation of the brewery space and tasting room for Trillium Brewery on Congress Street in Boston is nearing completion. Owner JC Tetreault has been busy performing much of the work with help from friends and family members. Much of the materials and equipment used are reclaimed and repurposed such as dairy tanks and lumber for the bar. As with many situations in breweries, JC took a doit-yourself approach such as staining new concrete to match old existing warehouse concrete and a homemade concoction to patina woodwork. New equipment found its way to the brewery, as well. Two gas-fired JC Tetreault stands next to a rack built with his father to hold barrels. By Mike Johnson, festpics.com Revelers celebrate with Slumbrew at Ball d’Ville. tankless hot water heaters piped in series will provide mash and sparge water for the brewing process. Tetreault said he’ll brew farmhouse-style beers with an American twist. A large space visible from the taproom has been set aside for tall racks for barrel aging. The taproom is long and narrow but has ample space for groups of 20-30. Somerville Ball d’Ville Somerville Brewing recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Slumbrew brewing project. Brand ambassadors — “Slumbassadors” — and other VIPs joined with ticket holders at the Somerville Armory for celebratory beers and food provided by local vendors and restaurants. The “gala” event, called the Ball d’Ville, also served as a launch party for the release of Attic and Eaves (7.5% ABV), a toasted brown ale brewed with Victory, Marris Otter and chocolate malts and hopped with Fuggles and Cascade hops. Toasted buckwheat, also known as kasha, imparts a sweeter, nut flavor. Gold Medals Galore Boston Beer Company has been busy with record breaking beers and winning awards. The 10th anniversary edition of Utopias (29%) was a project that started 20 years ago with Triple Bock (17.5%), and each version of Utopias contains as little as one percent of Triple Bock and a blend of other barrel-aged beers. Utopias also gets a special treatment in serving glassware. Crystal glassware maker Riedel created a small stemless tulip glass and its tall shape collects the beer’s aroma. At the 2012 Great International Beer and Cider Competition held in Providence, R.I., Boston Beer Company took home 16 medals. From 44 total categories, gold medal winners were Mighty Oak, Hazel Brown, Dark Depths (7.6%), Black Lager, New World Tripel (10%) and The Vixen (8.5). All of the awards can be seen at the brewery, which was just named the number four brewery tour in America by TripAdvisor.
Will Meyers (L) enlightens his volunteers. Precious Medals Cambridge Brewing added another silver medal to its collection at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival for Heather Ale. This makes a total of four medals for this award winning beer. The heather flowers used in this year’s batch were handpicked at a local nursery in Massachusetts. Before the picking begins, head Brewer Will Meyers leads the picking group in a ceremony that includes sampling the previous year’s batch and a reading an excerpt from Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner. Golden Watches At this year’s Great International Beer and Cider Competition, Watch City Brewing in Waltham claimed two gold medals. Brewmaster Aaron Mateychuk collaborated with Yankee Brew News homebrewing writer Paul Zocco to take the gold in the Strong Beer - Old Ale category with Zok’s Baltic Porter (7.2%). Mateychuk also won the gold in the Kölsch category for Rescue One Kölsch. Proceeds of the sales of this beer go to the Jon Davies Children Memorial Fund in honor of fallen Worcester Firefighter, Jon Davies. Winning the gold was especially meaningful for Aaron as his brother, James, is a Worcester firefighter. Jump in the Barrel Night Shift Brewing in Everett is introducing a barrel-aged series of beers for 2013. What’s different about this series? For that, it’s necessary to join the Night Shift Barrel Society. Members will receive two bottles of seven different barrel aged beers, exclusive glasses, a tee-shirt, first dibs on purchasing additional bottles if the barrels are more fruitful than expected, two tickets to the year-end Barrel Society party and first rights to renew the membership for 2014. Members are required to pick up their bottles, because shipping beer is illegal in Massachusetts. Night Shift expects to include two sour beers (Flanders-style and Brettanomyces), two imperial beers (that have yet to be decided upon from choices of a tripel, barleywine or coffee stout), a barrel-aged IPA, a 100 percent wild yeast Brettanomyces beer and a beer decided by the members. Night Shift plans to use the proceeds from membership dues to acquire barrels and to add fermenters and other brewery equipment essentials such as s a forklift and a delivery van. Beer Wars Winners ners McCormick and Schmick’s ck’s restaurant in Faneuil Hall in Boston oston kicks off its popular Beer Wars beer eer dinner that runs through the winter months in into to spring.) Peak Organic Beer of Maine e claimed the inaugural crown n of the bra bracket ra rack ck cket et tournament-style competition in 2011. The 2012 victor was Offshore Brewing of Oak Bluffs, Mass., which knocked out Peak in the early rounds. This season’s recent battles included Cody Brewing versus Woodstock Brewing, where Woodstock took the win with a narrow margin of votes from patrons. Jack’s Abby won the popular vote (31 to 29) in the literal clash of “Jack versus the Giant,” when he went against Harpoon. Jack Fells the Giant L-R: Jack Hendler from Jack’s Abby with McCormick & Schmick’s Barry Young and Art Landis, and Harpoon’s Jesse Brenneman and Ed Bardley (seated) at November’s Beer Wars Dinner. ©2012 THE BOSTON BEER COMPANY, BOSTON, MA SAVOR THE FLAVOR RESPONSIBLY.®
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