Not a gypsy.
As the craft beer scene evolves and matures, new approaches to making beer are certain. One such approach is “gypsy brewing”. A gypsy brewer finds an existing brewery with excess capacity, and physically brews the beer themselves in the rented facility with little, if any, assistance from the host brewery. And from what I understand, [...]
Bottles and a few other surprises.
OK, much to update.
First up, bottles will finally come to fruition. Look for six packs of our two new beers, Notch Session Ale and Notch Session Pils, in mid-February at a package store near you. This is contingent on you living in greater Boston, however. We’ll spread the distribution territory slowly through the year. The new Notch [...]
Session Beer – Workers’ Beer
I’ve been working on finalizing recipes this week for the new Notch beers to be released in February of next year. With this release, Notch steps outside of the British Isles and begins to explore Session Beers of other great beer brewing nations. While the Brits coined the phrase “Session”, they are not the only [...]
UK Cask Ale reinvents itself
This story is making the rounds in the beer blog and social media world, and it’s encouraging to see a younger set in the UK make its way towards cask ale. If you have not been looking across the Atlantic and tracking UK beer trends, cask ale has been long suffering from an old-man’s image.
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Label Fun
Getting a beer to market is not quite like watching sausage being made, but it certainly is tedious and frustrating at times. The legacy of prohibition lives on to this day in the laws governing the production, distribution and sale of beer. How so? Let’s take a look at the alcohol statement on beer labels, [...]
Updates and stuff…
A bit of a house cleaning post today, with updates, events, thanks and beer related activities. There’s a bit of a gap in availability over the next few weeks as we gear up for our full draft release later this month. As you can see in a previous post, Notch will be in wider draft [...]
Notch Cask at Deep Ellum
Notch Hop Session cask will be tapped this MONDAY (new date) at 6:00pm at Deep Ellum in Allston. Which is really cool, and you should discover why. If you’ve yet to make it to Deep Ellum in Allston, you are missing out. I love this place for a number of reasons, particularly how it navigates [...]
Notch Update!
Back in April I launched a limited Summer roll-out of Notch Session Ale with the hope of proving out a theory that session beer had a rightful, more visible place in the US craft beer scene. The goal was small – bring session beer back into the conversation – but success was uncertain. Was a [...]
Session Beer Backlash
The Session Beer Project has some recent posts that include Notch and other Session Beer related topics. The Notch stuff includes some thoughts on our two recent beers, Summer Session and Hop Session, as well as a disclaimer that there is no financial link between Notch and the SBP. I love the latter (although the tasting [...]
Lack of Session Obsession
Justin Farrar wrote a piece this week on his love of Session Beer, and the lack Session Beer options currently available. Great article, and not just because I was quoted. It’s a quick read, but a good one. Enjoy it!