Drinks
Seven Hard Seltzer Brands to Crush This Summer
When a Connecticut company called Boathouse Beverage, LLC, introduced hard seltzer—yes, that’s alcoholic, bubbly water—to the East Coast market in 2013, the visionaries simply called it […]
A Wachusett Brewpub Is Headed for the Former John Harvard’s
A basement brewpub that went dark in May after nearly 30 years of fueling the Harvard Square community with house-made beer and pub grub won’t […]
BearMoose Brewing Company and Deep Cuts Deli Open in Everett
UPDATE, July 15: Well, that was short-lived. Deep Cuts Deli has closed up this Everett outpost “due to creative differences” with an owner of BearMoose […]
Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Company Plans a Beer Garden for Framingham
UPDATE, July 18: It’s official: MetroWest has a regular, weekend beer garden. Exhibit ‘A’ kicks things off at 82 Morton St. in Framingham on Friday, […]
6 Boston Mixologists on How They Stir Creativity Into Every Cocktail
Creativity makes us come alive. It frees us to create new from nothing and to express our own perspective. These bartenders continue to push the […]
Lord Hobo Made a Beer Exclusively for the Encore Boston Casino
For Lord Hobo’s Daniel Lanigan, drinking one of his own beers at an iconic Boston bar or venue never gets old. He gets butterflies at […]
10 Local Craft “Fridge Beers” to Keep Cold All Summer Long
Maybe you’ve just finished running a loop around the Fens. Perhaps you need a break from mowing the lawn, or from putting a fresh coat of paint on the […]
Check Out the Menu at Pepita Coffee in Cambridge
Monday morning michelada, anyone? The spicy, savory cerveza is on the menu at Pepita Coffee, now open inside Lamplighter Brewing Co. in Cambridge. Along with […]
Check Out the Upgraded Retro Cocktail List at Devlin’s
Let’s just say it: The 1970s were not the pinnacle of cocktail culture. It was a time of college bars hawking five-for-$1 beers (we’re sure […]
90+ Cellars Is Launching a Mobile Wine Bar in Boston
The summer of rosé rolls on for another year—literally. 90+ Cellars is getting ready to start up a brand-new, wine-bar-on-wheels for the season, stocking it with this […]
Boston Beer Co. and Dogfish Head Will Merge to Form a Craft Beer Giant
Over pints in Boston this winter, two vanguard craft beer makers—Jim Koch and Sam Calagione—made a deal to merge their companies into a single, independent craft beer […]
Rum Distiller Maggie Campbell Is Blazing New Trails in the Spirits Industry
Maggie Campbell studied distilling at one of the country’s top schools for the craft. She scored an early-career role at Germain-Robin, among the most venerated […]
Respecting the Craft: An Oral History of Cambridge Brewing Company
Cambridge Brewing Company, in 2005 and today. / Photos courtesy of Cambridge Brewing Company In many ways, this past Saturday was a normal day at Cambridge […]
Curio Wine Bar Opens Tonight inside a Cambridge Coffee Shop
A cool coffee shop in Cambridge is about to become the latest café-by-day, bar-by-night operation. Curio Coffee, a three-year-old café near Lechmere Station, debuts the […]
Central Bottle in Cambridge Will Become Social Wines This Summer
A changing of the vino guards is happening in Cambridge. After a decade of sharing decidedly non-snooty wine recommendations and knowledge in Central Square, Liz […]