• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • NEWS+OPINIONS
    • NEWS TO US
    • COLUMNS
      • APPARENT HORIZON
      • DEAR READER
      • Close
    • LONGFORM FEATURES
    • OPINIONS
    • EDITORIAL
    • Close
  • ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
    • FILM
    • MUSIC
    • COMEDY
    • PERFORMING ARTS
    • VISUAL ARTS
    • Close
  • DINING+DRINKING
    • EATS
    • SIPS
    • BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU
    • Close
  • LIFESTYLE
    • CANNABIS
      • TALKING JOINTS MEMO
      • Close
    • WELLNESS
    • GTFO
    • Close
  • STUFF TO DO
  • TICKETS
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT
    • MASTHEAD
    • ADVERTISE
    • Close

Dig Bos

The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source

BEER-Y TRAVELER

Written by KAREN CINPINSKI Posted August 5, 2014 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Honest Pint

Sure, there are only a few calendar weeks left of our precious summer. No matter though. The craft beer festival season is still on an intoxicated rampage around New England, so here are a few to keep in mind in order to get the most suds out of your drinking season.

LOBSTAH BOIL AND BREW FEST | AUGUST 3

Newton’s first-ever commercial brewery, Hopsters, will be hosting their inaugural lobster boil and brew fest this Sunday. The training ground for home brewers won’t be offering brewing sessions during the party, instead swapping them for boiling sessions. Their copper kettles will be employed as scalding death baths for cooking the large crustaceans to a crimson hue, and you’ll get various sides and specialty draft ales brewed just for the occasion. Creepy yet wonderful.

HOPSTERS. 292 CENTRE ST., NEWTON.

BREW AT THE ZOO | AUGUST 16

Featuring more than 30 local breweries, food from several area restaurants, and live music, it’s the only reason you should ever be blitzed among zebras and other incarcerated animals. Connecticut’s Two Roads Brewing and Somerville’s Pretty Things will be on hand, along with national favorites (New York’s Brewery Ommegang, Green Flash Brewing from California). Warning: May result in drunken arguments with some monkeys.

FRANKLIN PARK ZOO. 1 FRANKLIN PARK RD., BOSTON.

PORTLAND BREW FESTIVAL | AUGUST 29 – 30

Forty breweries, mostly regional, will take over a combined 35K-square-foot space this month in Portland. Custom sampling glasses for sampling more than 110 varieties of choice suds (Portland’s beloved Allagash Brewing, local powerhouse Harpoon and New Hampshire’s Smuttynose), cider (think: Bantam and Downeast out of Massachusetts) and even mead from the likes of Fat Friar Mead and Maine Meadery. You’ll have live brewing sessions and a whole head-load of beer education. Which may be lost the next day should you overdo it.

THE PORTLAND COMPANY. 58 FORE ST., PORTLAND, ME.

HOP JAM | August 30

If the name is any indication, expect a strong musical contingent, but also a serious beer focus highlighting mostly the Green Mountain State. The brag-worthy lineup includes coveted Hill Farmstead Brewery, Zero Gravity Craft Brewery, the Alchemist, Lost Nation Brewing, and Lawson’s Finest Liquids, as well as a killer round-up from beyond the state. Expect about 20 rotating drafts, with special limited releases tapped between music sets, and a cask selection for VIP ticket holders. It’s the Bonnaroo of beer.

BOLTON VALLEY RESORT. 4302 BOLTON VALLEY ACCESS RD., BOLTON VALLEY, VT.

FT_Beer_Tab

FT_Bowtie_Tab

FT_GTFO_Tab

FT_Massage_Tab

FT_Outdoors_Tab

FT_Rosebud_Tab

FT_Wine_Tab

FT_YACHT_Tab

FT_ZIP_Tab

KAREN CINPINSKI
+ posts
    This author does not have any more posts.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Honest Pint

WHAT’S NEW

Massachusetts Bill, Victim Advocates Call For Coordinated Date-Rape Drug Response

Massachusetts Bill, Victim Advocates Call For Coordinated Date-Rape Drug Response

Report: Fewer Youth Transition Out Of Massachusetts Foster Care System

Report: Fewer Youth Transition Out Of Massachusetts Foster Care System

State Wire: Activists Urge Congress To Raise Debt Ceiling, Resist Spending Cuts

State Wire: Activists Urge Congress To Raise Debt Ceiling, Resist Spending Cuts

Dancing On Banana Peels: Life On Lifetime Parole In Massachusetts

Dancing On Banana Peels: Life On Lifetime Parole In Massachusetts

Justice Department Completes Vetting Of Rachael Rollins

Justice Department Completes Vetting Of Rachael Rollins

AG Investigating BPD To Determine If “Gang Unit” Engages In “Unconstitutional Policing”

AG Investigating BPD To Determine If “Gang Unit” Engages In “Unconstitutional Policing”

Primary Sidebar

LOCAL EVENTS

AAN Wire


Most Popular

  • AG Investigating BPD To Determine If “Gang Unit” Engages In “Unconstitutional Policing”
  • Over Yondr: Are Cell Phone Pouches At Shows Liberating, Dangerous, Or Annoying?
  • Deep Cuts Brings Sandwiches, Craft Beer, And Live Music To Medford
  • Family Of Woman Killed By Commuter Rail Sues MBTA For Crash Records
  • Daring Greatly: TikTok Star Alden McWayne (aka Gucci Pineapple) On Scheming And Dreaming

Footer

Social Buttons

DigBoston facebook DigBoston Twitter DigBoston Instagram

Masthead

About

Advertise

Customer Service

About Us

DigBoston is a one-stop nexus for everything worth doing or knowing in the Boston area. It's an alt-weekly, it's a website, it's an email blast, it's a twitter account, it's that cool party that you were at last night ... hey, you're reading it, so it's gotta be good. For advertising inquiries: sales@digboston.com To reach editorial (and for inquiries about internship opportunities): editorial@digboston.com