“Thank you for making these beers.”
I received this email last week, and want to share it.
Chris,
Thank you for making these beers. For years I’ve been longing for great tasting lower ABV brews. The current bigger is better trend to over-hopped, high ABV brews has left me longing for a good beer that I can have with a burger on a Wednesday night that won’t [...]
Boston Beer Week Recap
Boston Beer Week and the American Craft Brewers Festival (ACBF) is now in the review mirror, and it was a week of catching up with brewers I’ve know for a long time, as well as meeting a bunch of new industry folk and consumers interested in what Notch is all about.
The “what Notch is all [...]
THE Session Beer Article
Needed to post this one on the blog for safe keeping, it’s a keeper. I have nothing to add, other than the fact this is the second time I’ve been quoted with an emphatic “bullshit” when a more suitable word escaped me. I’ll let Lew take it from here – his article in the Massachusetts Beverage [...]
Boston Beer Week
It’s Boston Beer Week, and that means a whole slew of beer events within RT128. Notch will be participating in the Massachusetts Brewers Guild events, which include Tap Takeovers of the Lower Depths on May 31, and Cambridge Common June 1. I like these events, as they highlight what is happening right here in the [...]
Notch Cask Series – #1: Dark Mild
May kicks off Notch’s cask only series, where a one-off batch is brewed for cask only. May is also CAMRA’s Mild Month, and while this is a British thing, Notch will be participating stateside by releasing the Notch Dark Mild. This is something I’ve wanted to brew for a while, but would never release in [...]
Czech? Yes. German? No.
The Notch Session Pils is having great success in draft and bottle with very positive feedback, which is encouraging. Encouraging because Czech style lagers are very different from other European pilsners (Germany, Copenhagen), and I had a bit of trepidation about releasing a style rarely seen in the US. It’s not everyday a US craft [...]
A great night for session beer
I have a long way to go to make Notch a real, on-going concern, but last week’s bottle release party for Notch was certainly gratifying, if not a little humbling. On a Tuesday night in March, we packed the Lower Depths (had an unfortunate line) and celebrated the release of two new Notch beers in [...]
Notch Bottle Release – March 1!
It’s show time – Notch Session bottles hit greater Boston the first week of March. So to kick this off in grand style, we are taking over the Lower Depths on March 1 to spread the word, drink session beer, and mostly have a little fun. Probably a lot of fun. Get there early – [...]
The Path to Grodziskie
I had a few beers late last year with Todd and Jason Alstrom from Beer Advocate and talk turned to the Extreme Beer Fest (EBF). Todd spoke about Extreme Session Beer as the theme for 2011, where beers would be made with innovative /unique processes or ingredients AND be under 5% ABV. Needless to say [...]
Beer ratings.
Quick post today – I’m highly medicated on my second full blown sickness of the year – but Lew Bryson has a funny post over at the Session Beer Project that I want to share. Lew’s getting militant with his Session Beer manifesto, and the Rate Beer top 100 list was the latest to put him [...]