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/20 Aug 2019
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Quality Beverage Buys Williams Distributing

Quality Beverage of Taunton is buying 69-year-old Williams Distributing, the Budweiser and Yuengling distributor in Western Massachusetts. The deal, which needs the approval of Williams Distributing’s suppliers, will make Quality Beverage the state’s leading supplier of Anheuser-Busch InBev brand products. The transaction is expected to close in October, according to...
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/30 Jun 2017
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BURGUNDY 2O14

by HARVEY FINKEL HAVING HEARD increasingly positive word about the recently arrived 2O14 Burgundy vintage, an enthusiastic coterie of members and aspirants of the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin were drawn on an evening in April to the upstairs room at La Voile, the sweet little brasserie on Beacon Street...
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/30 Jun 2017
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Canadian Whisky

by LEW BRYSON “OH, IT’S . . . just the Canadian.” That’s a line from the pilot episode of “Due South,” a 9Os TV show about a Mountie who winds up working with a Chicago cop. His boss at the Canadian consulate is explaining how he overhears secrets and gathers...
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/30 Jun 2017
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STOUTS and PORTERS for HOT SUMMER’S NIGHTS

by ANDY CROUCH WHEN THE WEATHER turns cold, thoughts in the beer world turn immediately to dark beers.  Pints of warming, inviting black pints of stout are what is needed to combat snow piles awaiting the shovel.  Light hefeweizens, airy witbiers, and quenching Berliner weisses remain excellent selections when the...
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/01 Jun 2017
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Decoding the Genetics of DRINKING

by HARVEY FINKEL, MD ALCOHOLISM TENDS TO cluster in families.  Observers have long wondered whether this destructive addiction, or at least susceptibility thereto, is inherited, however difficult it is to imagine the intricate individual steps required for genetic determinants to be translated into complex behavior. Studies aiming to uncover human...
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/01 Jun 2017
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PHILADELPHIA FISH HOUSE PUNCH

PINK LADY’S ENDANGERED COCKTAIL OF THE MONTH RUM is a delightful sip, and with our most patriotic holiday on the horizon it seems fitting to familiarize ourselves with a great recipe for a rum punch to raise in celebration.  Philadelphia Fish House Punch is older than America itself and was...
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/01 Jun 2017
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Carmenere

by SANDY BLOCK, MW THE CARMENERE STORY has mythical overtones (a star grape in 19th Century Bordeaux, believed extinct, then rediscovered in Chile in the 199Os) but the reality is that for many years the grape has stirred strong passions, calling forth divisively negative, as well as positive, reactions among...
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/01 May 2017
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DRINKING THE DOURO DRY

by HARVEY FINKEL FOR A SMALL COUNTRY, Portugal is prolific and complex in its wine production.  While it is among the most pleasant places I’ve visited, the difficulties of the spoken language and the unfamiliar legion of indigenous grape varieties can be initially daunting, until meeting the accommodating people and...
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/01 May 2017
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THE LAST WORD

PINK LADY’S ENDANGERED COCKTAIL OF THE MONTH THE LAST WORD 3/4 ounce of gin 3/4 ounce of Chartreuse 3/4 ounce of maraschino liqueur 3/4 ounce of fresh lime Shake ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. SPRING SURE TOOK its sweet time arriving this...
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