The Brewery of the Month for July is Berkshire Brewing Co. Long time friends, we thought it would be nice to offer up some aged offerings as well as some new ones. We’ve got their 12 packs on sale for $14.99 as well. Doesn’t hurt to try. Tasting 4-6pm on Friday, June 10th.
Not often do we get New Hampshire breweries in, but this month is an exception. We’ll have the canned 603 Brewing in store tasting their line up. A great chance to try everything from a brewery you might not have had the chance to try yet. Saturday 16th, 1-3 pm.
We try to spread it out, but sometimes you just got to bring you some favorites. We’ll be having Jack’s Abby come in for tasting to showcase their new logos and cans. For an added bonus, I’ll be putting the 12 packs on sale for the tasting. $14.99/12 pack, Friday 15th 4-6pm.
A couple of weeks ago we spent a good chunk of time installing a new piece of shelving in beer-land, and since then I’ve been slowly expanding some of our selections and introducing some new products. I’ve gotten a fair few requests for more efficiently spreading the word about the arrival of limited release beers and oddities that come our way, so now we’ve given them a dedicated spot: the experiment area. The top two shelves, all the way to the right, are now going to play host to whatever odds and ends arrive that wouldn’t otherwise have a home… for example, right now I have some Troeg’s Flying Mouflan (Nugget Nectar on steroids!), The Alchemist’s “Celia” Saison (gluten-free from a brewery rarely seen in MA!), and the Stone/Bottleworks “13” collaboration brew.
Additionally, I’d like to use this area to evaluate how customers feel about beers I’m on the fence about stocking. In the coming days you’ll find a chalk board next to the experiments, and the names of any beers that I’m looking for input on… chalk up a tally mark next to things you’ve tried and liked, and those that are popular will become permanent fixtures of the beer shelves.
Lastly, I’m going to try and tweet out the limited beers (those that don’t have waiting lists) as they arrive, so if you want to be alerted whenever some new goodies show up, follow us on Twitter @ColonialSpirits .
For those who aren’t aware, my position in the store changed recently, I moved to a new role as the craft beer buyer. Of course, Tim remains very involved with the beer department that he essentially constructed, but there’s a new set of eyes looking at everything we do with beer now.
Of course, my background in wine is fairly extensive, while my knowledge of beer is still being developed, and so I’m taking great care to think about the beers that I drink in order to better understand their character and use. The great difference that I have observed is that the world of wine is governed by terroir, the concept of a wine’s “sense of place”, but this is not the case with beer, where everything is governed by process. Continue reading Seeing with Beer Goggles
The Mayans predict that the world will come to an end in 2012. At Colonial Spirits, we thought this would be a great time to discuss what drink we’d want to go out with. In this video, Nicolay, Nic, and Tim tell us what they’d be sipping on that final day. Nicolay would enjoy a Champagne. Nic opts for a Riesling. And Tim chooses an India Pale Ale.
Please let us know what would be your last drink, too!
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