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From Massachusetts With Love

Jack’s Abby and Springdale have an Oregon holiday
Kevin Gifford

One can argue, with some credence, that craft beer as we know it today began in the West. Sierra Nevada Brewing, the first really successful “microbrewery,” launched in northern California in 1980, followed by a small avalanche in Oregon when brewpubs were legalized in the state in 1984. Now there are hundreds all up and […]

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Heady Topper and Beyond

The story of Vermont beer goes far past its most famous IPA
Kevin Gifford

“It’s kind of weird sometimes,” said Travis, one barside regular at the Prohibition Pig brewpub in Waterbury, Vermont. “People come in from Massachusetts, from New York, and it’s like all they can think about is how many cases of Heady they can get before they return. I want to tell them, like, there’s 30 other […]

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