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Stock the fridge with this German-style Märzen when Oktoberfest comes around. But in a pinch, it’s a lot easier to cross the Mystic River than the pond. Does jet-setting to Austria sound appealing? Sure. Our favorite, though, is Emelyn: a malt-forward Vienna-style lager that’s unfiltered, unaged, and customarily enjoyed as close as possible to the beer’s source. Investing in the locavore landscape? That deserves a toast.įrom its home base in Malden, Idle Hands interprets a whole world of beers, with Belgian-inspired brews and baseball-themed American IPAs among its many successes.

Gate 37 owes its peppery earthiness to a base of raw buckwheat and malted red-winter wheat supplied by Valley Malt in Hadley, which in turn supports growers across the region. outfit housed inside a former factory, doesn’t need its own wheat fields to turn out ace farmhouse ales-styles historically produced by farmers from their own grains. Honest Weight, an industrial Western Mass. Its nectarous quality nips any über-boozy taste in the bud-plus, it lends a velvety mouthfeel that’s (forgive us) the bee’s knees. Nothing complements the style’s signature tropical-fruit flavors, however, like South Shore-harvested honey, which Widowmaker gets from a beekeeping bartender on staff every few months to brew Honeymaker. Sweet ingredients, such as lactose, are commonly added to New England IPAs to build body and temper bitterness.

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The Streets is the ultimate in a series of Trillium beers that perfected the cloudy look and texture key to the craft-brew world’s ongoing “haze craze.” Nothing comes close to the candied-fruit-flavored punch of this singular sipper, which gets its “bam!” factor from an armload of hop varieties.Ĭanton, Fort Point, Fenway. The Streetsīoston’s biggest craft-beer name celebrates its March anniversary by giving us a gift: a special-occasion IPA that is also one of its most pioneering. The storied Charlton-based beermaker is famous for advancing the hop-driven possibilities of New England IPAs-and this flagship, characteristically creamy with a blend of fruit flavors, reminds us why we’re always eager to see what they’ll have in store.Ĭharlton, Sandwich, South Deerfield. JuliusĮven if a certain smoothie shop wasn’t a formative food-court hangout for many mall-reared millennials, we’d probably still love the orange-juicy Julius from Tree House. At neighborhood packies and pubs, though, Session Pils successfully camouflages itself in cans as a straightforward pick for something inexpensive and crushable: It’s brewed for you to have a few-so break out a beer mug and bring the foam party home. Today, his Goody Two Shoes pays tribute to the style: light-bodied, effervescent, and crystalline gold, with lemony zeal and fresh-baked-cracker crispness.īrightly herbal and slightly hoppy, this pilsner-style lager proves worthy of its own pouring method at Notch’s taprooms, where “side-pull” faucets control the flow to create an optimally creamy head. It certainly opened the eyes of a teenage Matthew Steinberg, founder of Exhibit ‘A,’ who studied up on it in Europe (read: drank it on vacation) years before becoming one of the state’s top brewmasters. Refined Kölsch ale-the signature brew of Cologne, Germany-is a gateway to good beer for many Bud-reared Americans. Like its namesake style of New England apartment building, it’s a utilitarian triumph. Brewed in Worcester (that’s WUH-stuh, of course), it goes down easy with balanced honey-malt and floral-hop flavors.

Three DeckerĪ beer for when you just want a beer-something simple to slake your thirst after, say, a hot afternoon spent weed-whacking the perimeter of your family’s three-decker-this super-light helles lager always hits the spot. Thanks to a soft, floral quality that eases the intensity of the tart citrus, Springdale’s Lavenade sips more like a not-so-sweet lemonade than a boozy beverage-and that makes it a must-have accessory when it’s time to go digging (or lounging) in the garden.įramingham,. Like a sweet breeze rustling the crocuses on the first open-window day of the year, the annual arrival of this lavender-lemon sour ale ushers in spring in Boston (for beer lovers, anyway).

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