For more information visit http://www.eatgoodfooddrinkbetterbeer.com

Beer of the Clam

Like it or love it, New England’s Narragansett Beer, the official “Beer of the Clam,” is ready to toast off the summer season with the release of a new, limited-edition Tallboy can and a bunch of events to toast to at some of the region’s top seafood joints and clam shacks. The events will feature specialty menus, entertainment, contests, promotions, and of course, plenty of Narragansett!

For full schedule of events, ticket pricing and availability, please visit: http://www.narragansettbeer.com/events

Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA

Morton’s Steakhouse welcomes Boston beer lovers and BeersInBoston to sample offerings from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, out of Milton, Delaware.  You will enjoy the following four craft Dogfish Head beers at Morton’s The Steakhouse Seaport location:

• Midas Touch IPA – a Turkish recipe for the oldest known fermented beverage in the world
• Raison – a Belgian style ale brewed with beet sugars and raisins
• 90 Minute – dubbed the “Best IPA in America” by Esquire
• Palo – an aged brown ale with caramel and vanilla notes derived from handcrafted wooden brewing vessels

Each beer will be paired with a selection of outstanding fine cheeses, including aged Wisconsin parmesan, cubbedu moderately aged sheep’s milk cheese, wild horseradish cheddar and smoked gorgonzola.  Beers and cheese will also be served alongside signature Morton’s hors d’oeuvres.

The Dogfish Head beer tasting will be held on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 front 6-7:30pm.

$45 per guest, inclusive of tax and gratuity

Morton’s The Steakhouse will donate $5 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for every event ticket purchased.

Reservations are required. Call 617-526-0410 to reserve your spot as space is limited.

Morton’s The Steakhouse is located at 2 Seaport Lane in Boston, MA

At July 24th at 4pm and lasting through 9pm, the Yankee Homecoming Brewfest will feature over 30 craft beers room local breweries and live music from the band Ol Brown Shoe.

This will be my first Yankee Homecoming Brewfest.. very excited about it. Newburyport is one of my favorite cities in the state, sure to be a good time!

This event will be held at the Amesbury Mass Town Hall parking lot next to Maggie Sundae. The brewfest will cost $25, but the moeny will go directly to the 2011 Amesbury Days Festival and Fireworks display. Not sure what that means… Beerfest!!!

For more information go to www.amesburydays.com

2010 marked the third year of the American Craft Beer Fest, and again it did not disappoint.  I found the lines to be somewhat long this time around, as the word seems to have gotten out amongst the city.  Not like 2008 or 2009 had poor attendance, but some of the lines this year were ridiculous.  Dogfishead and Pretty Things led the way with lines backed up to the bathrooms, while others such as Harpoon watched from near-empty booths.

Beeradvocate, you did a great job.  Please, please host your other yearly events at the Seaport – The Cyclorama events seem to fall very short after this event.

High & Mighty Beer Company began in 2006 as an offshoot of Shelton Brothers beer importing company. Will Shelton took his idea for a novel German-style ale to Paper City Brewery in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and Beer of the Gods was born, to extraordinary commercial success, critical acclaim, and unabashed adoration from beer geeks the world over. Eventually, Will discovered that he enjoyed selling the beer he made even more than he did the splendid beers that Shelton Brothers imports, and in June 2008, he abandoned his brother to focus on making American beer that added an American attitude to the best of European beer styles.

High & Mightly beer is currently made at Paper City, but look for High & Mighty to open a brewery of its own in 2010.

As you know, nobody does a celebration of life, beer, and music quite like Harpoon. The city of Boston will be in attendance, so make sure you are too!

Tickets will be sold at the door, starting at 5:30 on Friday, and 2pm on Saturday.  Free shuttles will run from South Station to the waterfront brewery regularly.

A peak into this years event from the Harpoon website:

What is Harpoon St. Patrick’s Festival all about?

• Kick off the St. Patrick’s Day Holiday season in Harpoon style!
• What better place to begin the season than inside the largest brewery in Boston?!?!?!
• Food vendors selling Corned beef & cabbage along with other delicious food
• Cash bars offering a selection of fresh Harpoon and UFO beer featuring Celtic Ale
• Featuring live Irish and Rock and Roll bands from the Boston area
• Come dance the jig, enjoy Harpoon beer, and celebrate St. Patrick!

Honest Town Brewery’s year round beers include Padraig’s Irish Red, a dark ale with a unique red color and a crisp finish from malted barley; S.O.B or Southbridge Ordinary Bitter, the brewery’s lightest offering which provides easy drinking and a light malt aroma and crisp hop finish; and Blueberry, a light, refreshing ale with a taste of blueberry. Seasonally, Honest Town Brewery offers an American Pale Ale, Hefe Weizen, Antul’s 80 Shilling, Imperial Sturbridge Coffee Roasters Stouth, Honest Town Uberraschen Hefeweizen, Honest Town IPA, and Carpall Dorche Stout. Its present seasonal offering is the Capall Dorche Stout, which is black and velvety smooth with a rich, creamy feel. It contains mild roasted flavors and a cocoa and milk chocolate finish. It contains Nugget and East Kent Goldings hops.

Honest Town Brewery is a part of the 12 Crane complex, located at 12 Crane Street, Southbridge, Masachusetts. Its phone number is 508-764-1100. There, one can enjoy Honest Town Brewery offerings at the Dark Horse Tavern.

Visit http://www.12crane.com/honesttown/index.php to learn more.

Some of the beers brewed by Opa Opa include Opa Opa Light, which is a crisp malt with a low-calorie pilsner style lager; Kix Brew, which is a light bodied ale with low bitterness and a smooth finish, and Opa American Wheat, which was a Silver Medal Winner at the Great American Beer Festival in 2006. Other beers of Opa Opa Brewing Company that have won awards include the Honesty 57 Pale Ale, which won the Silver Medal at the 2007 Great International Beer Festival; and the Opa Opa Red Rock Amber, which won the Gold Medal at the Great International Beer Festival in 2005 and 2007. Opa Opa also creates many seasonal brews such as the popular Opa Blueberry Lager.

The success of Opa Opa has spread around the country. Many restaurants and bars on the east coast have began to sell their brews including Massachusetts, Florida, and Connecticut.  They have also been featured in various local publications such as Business West and The Republican, as well as on CBS 3 Springfield.

The Opa Opa Brewing Company is located at: 162 College Highway Southampton, MA 01073.  They give weekly brewery tours, and can be contacted at 413-527-8282.

For more information, visit http://www.opaopabrewing.com.