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/25 Apr 2008
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Questioning Mark Stutrud

QUESTIONING MARK STUTRUD To hear Mark Stutrud tell it, the Summit Brewing Company is just a little Minnesota brewery carrying on the great brewing history of the city of Saint Paul. He notes that the brewery sells almost 9O percent of its beer in its home state, with consumers in...
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/25 Apr 2008
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Boutique Merchandising

Passion and customer service are the by-words of the proprietors of three different Massachusetts boutique wine stores when asked what the single most important part of their businesses is. These words are what the owners claim is the reason customers turn to them, in their smaller spaces, with less big...
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/25 Apr 2008
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Locals Breaking-Out!

There are two small Massachusetts breweries that are edging up toward a break-out point – Berkshire Brewing, in South Deerfield, and Wachusett Brewing, in Westminster, passed the 1O,OOO bottle a year mark in 2OO3, and both are sustaining steady growth. Interestingly, both have reached that mark largely within the state...
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/25 Apr 2008
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ABCC from A to Z

Between undercover stings, budget cuts, layoffs, department transfers, and agency overhauls, the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has certainly been busy over the last year. In June of 2OO3 the agency was moved, after actually being temporarily eliminated in March, from its longtime home of the Office of Consumer &...
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/25 Apr 2008
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Long Trail’s Pherson

Long Trail Brewing recently re-entered the Massachusetts market. At about that same time, I got a press package from Long Trail. That may not seem significant – my desk is six inches deep in brewery press releases – but I can count on the fingers of one foot how many...
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/25 Apr 2008
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Beer Geeks Revisited

Who do these people think they are anyways? Do they really think they can simply waltz in here, saddle up to the bar, sip a pint, and decree their verdict on the quality of the beer? In the Internet Age, the beer geeks not only believes in their power to...
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/25 Apr 2008
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Old School Warmth

As winter is upon us again it’s time to revisit drinks that ward off the chill. And for this article its time to go back to the near-forgotten originals. The oldies are goodies for a reason and this certainly goes beyond my beloved Side Car. Recently I found some very...
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/25 Apr 2008
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Profile: Hellen Gallo Bryan

Here’s a woman who’s deftly balanced her career as wine import executive with motherhood – two babies after 40! In imports since 1989, Helen Gallo Bryan is an inspiration to her peers at Winebow and industry-wide. We met at Meze Estatorio, Paul Delios’ cheerful Greek restaurant facing the Zakim Bridge...
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/17 Apr 2008
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Drinking Patterns and Heart Attacks

People picture science differently. For some, it’s a Gothic laboratory and Victor Frankenstein shrieking, “It’s alive!” For others, it’s a quiet and understated, sterile, well-lighted, modern and nondescript workplace. For still others, science is epidemiology, the statistical study of what affects the health of populations. What science really is amounts...
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