EDIT: Lonnie from GrandTen sent an email my way and let me know that he enjoyed my review. Also, I am now aware that his name is not Robbie. Correction made! For whatever reason, most of my experiences around Boston have been centered around brewery tours. Or trying to find a decently priced sushi restaurant with an … Continue reading A Tour of GrandTen Distilled
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A Place of Our Own
Emily introduced me to sushi a few years ago and, since then, we've gone to about six or seven places in the Boston area and never more than once. None of the places we went to were necessarily bad (except for the one in Somerville where the waitress corrected Emily in the most condescending manner … Continue reading A Place of Our Own
Brewing an Education: Porters and Stouts (Part III)
Continuing on along our education of stouts and porters, we have come across our first porter. Now, from everything I have read, porters are a bit of a mystery. Once, a long time ago, porters were an extremely popular form of beer of which stouts a type. But, along the way, porters fell by the … Continue reading Brewing an Education: Porters and Stouts (Part III)
Brewing an Education: Stouts and Porters (Part 2)
I've been reading a book called Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher and I've been using it as a guide to beer tasting (obviously). While I already knew some of the basics (checking the clarity, the color, the aroma) I was/am still very much a novice. The best part about this particular book is that it goes … Continue reading Brewing an Education: Stouts and Porters (Part 2)
31 Days of Spoooktacular: Harvest Season
Sometimes, it's important to take a break from Halloween in the middle of the season and remember that Fall is great for other reasons as well. When I was a kid, we used to head up to my grandparent's house in Virginia in the Fall to pick the apples in their small orchard. My dad … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: Harvest Season
31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Horror in the Tin
I really like the show Good Eats with Alton Brown. This is important if you're to know about The Horror in The Tin and why I did what I did. I need you to understand that I was once very much like you and I was normal. I was so normal. Anyway. Alton, I can … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Horror in the Tin
31 Days of Spoooktacular: Spoooky Beer Review: Weyerbacher’s Imperial Pumpkin Ale
I’m taking it upon myself to review as many Octoberfests and Pumpkin Ales as I possibly can during the Halloween Season. All while listening to “Thriller”. Next up: Weyerbacher's Imperial Pumpkin Ale For whatever reason, I'm incapable of not drinking pumpkin ales. It's becoming a struggle for me. I use the reviews as a cover, … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: Spoooky Beer Review: Weyerbacher’s Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Spoooky Beer Review: Cambridge Brewing’s The Great Pumpkin Ale (Entry II)
I’m taking it upon myself to review as many Octoberfests and Pumpkin Ales as I possibly can during the Halloween Season. All while listening to “Thriller”. Next up: Cambridge Brewing's The Great Pumpkin Ale I'm going to be honest with you: I'm kind of getting sick of pumpkin ales. They taste … Continue reading Spoooky Beer Review: Cambridge Brewing’s The Great Pumpkin Ale (Entry II)
Restaurant Review: Hungry Mother
Emily and I have gone to a few restaurants in the area now and I think we have a good bead on what's good in Boston/Cambridge. For us, the best restaurant we've gone to, either here or elsewhere, is Hungry Mother. We've only been there twice, because that's as often as we can afford to … Continue reading Restaurant Review: Hungry Mother
Restaurant Review: Empire Garden
Emily and I had decided that we were going to get Chinese food one night. That, of course, meant that we had to go to Chinatown. By the time we got there, we were so hungry that we just lurched into the first restaurant we saw and that's how we discovered Empire Garden. When you … Continue reading Restaurant Review: Empire Garden
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