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Origin Stories: Rob Dunn of Granite Coast Brewing – VIDEO
Origin Stories is a series featuring Creative Collective Business Members telling the story of where they’ve been, where they’re going, and some advice for those of us who are just getting started. Rob Dunn is the co-founder of Granite Coast Brewing Company. Listen to him tell how he caught the brewing bug in his early 20s and hasn’t looked back
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Bent Water Beer 101: What’s a Wet Hop Beer?
This month, we’re highlighting local businesses as part of our #StayLocal2020 campaign. Scroll to the bottom for more information. From Bent Water Brewing Recently we released a small batch Wet Hop IPA that we brewed on our innovation pilot system. Since it’s such a small batch, it’s not a beer we’re canning. Instead, we released it in kegs to a few
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Originally Crafted Events Review: Night Shift Brewing
By Valerie Bruno / Originally Crafted Events What started off as a nocturnal passion for homebrewing between three friends, quickly turned into a remarkable independently run business. Rob Burns, Mike O’Mara and Michael Oxton started Night Shift Brewing on the mindset of “create better,” and that is exactly what they did. Night Shift opened their doors in Everett MA, for the
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True North Ale Company • Run the World
By Valerie Bruno / Originally Crafted Events True North Ale Company Run the World Hazy Tropical IPA 2020 Pink Boots Brew 5.9% abv True North Ales has collaborated with the Pink Boots Society to create “the 2020 Pink Boots Society hop blend [which] offers additional citrus as well as floral, grassy, and fresh wood tones” This tropical collaboration is definitely one
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Abolitionist Ale Works
By Valerie Bruno / Originally Crafted Events Abolitionist Ale Works129 W Washington St. Charles Town, WV West by Quad, Wine Barrel Aged Dark Ale 9.5% The Abolitionist Ale works describes their West by Quad, Belgian strong dark ale in the simplest way, “A Dark Strong Ale aged in a wine barrel.” Simple, sweet and to the point. That’s just what it was,
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Stay-at-Home Order • Variety Pack #2!
By Valerie Bruno / Originally Crafted Events Looking to stay connected while staying at home? Trying to find a way to give back during this pandemic? Enjoy drinking beer from Local Breweries? The Stay-at-Home Order competition Variety Pack # 2 is here! HOW DOES IT WORK Originally Crafted Events is offering a fun and creative way to keep you connected
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Stay-at-Home Order Brew Competition
By Valerie Bruno / Originally Crafted Events Bringing people together is more challenging than ever given the sudden arrival of COVID-19. The Stay-at-Home Order Competition is here to bring breweries, distributors, and consumers together while adhering to the stay at home advisory and social distancing restrictions currently in place. A portion of the proceeds from kit sales will be going
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Eat Drink North Shore – Granite Coast Brewing
Via Eat Drink North Shore In this season-ending episode, Phil (along with guest host Anthony Angrisano) sits down with Rob & Jeff, the owners of Granite Coast Brewing. Listen as we talk about how they got there, where they got started, some of the obstacles they have overcome, and of course, Rapid Fire! Also, join us as we walk through
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Drink Beer, Support Youth Art Programs with Bent Water Brewing’s Harvester
by Joey Phoenix Bent Water Brewing Co. released its new Taproom Exclusive can this past weekend. It’s called Harvester, a down-to-earth brown ale that would probably pair quite well with turkey, and it’s come out just in time for Thanksgiving. Harvester is the first in a series of can releases that the brewery will be producing over the next few