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A FITTING BOTTLE FOR THE CHAMPAGNE OF BEERS

Champagne dreams but a beer budget? Miller High Life has the solution to that. Sort of. The self-proclaimed “Champagne of Beers” will be available nationally through the holiday season in limited-edition 750ml Champagne-style bottles. Suggested retail price is just $3.49, significantly cheaper than virtually any sparkling wine. The bottles, which...
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PABST BLUE RIBBON EASY

      This crisp and refreshing session beer from Pabst has 11O calories and is 3.8% ABV. Available in 12-pack cans and 6-pack 16-ounce cans AVAILABLE FROM Atlas Distributing, Burke Distributing, Colonial Wholesale Beverage, Commercial Distributing Company and Merrimack Valley Distributing.

ENDANGERED COCKTAIL OF THE MONTH: THE OLD PAL

Valentine’s Day arrives this month, the first holiday to officially call for eating and drinking since our New Years’ shenanigans were put to bed last month. It’s said to be the busiest day of the year in restaurants with couples arriving in droves, turning an otherwise sleepy winter evening into...
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LOIRE VALLEY SAUVIGNON BLANC

ORIGINALLY FUELED BY EXCITEMENT over the wines from the Marlborough district of New Zealand, Sauvignon Blanc’s multi-year surge in popularity has only accelerated over the past year or two. Once shunned, the grape is now a fashion statement. It’s understandable that consumers have also shown a renewed interest in the...
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A DRINK WITH SHAWN WESTHOVER

BEVERAGE DIRECTOR • PAPA RAZZI-BURLINGTON + NEWPORT RESTAURANT GROUP SHAWN WESTHOVEN of Papa Razzi Metro in Burlington is what you’d call a beverage academic. Not only does he study classic Italian brands and cocktails, he teaches his staff and guests how to appreciate them. Rooted in reviving the traditional Italian...
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AFFORDABLE CÔTES DE BORDEAUX

IN KEEPING with the theme of last month’s column about the Médoc’s Cru Bourgeois, here is a look at another group of affordable Bordeaux wines – the Côtes de Bordeaux. These châteaux produce wines with unmistakable Bordeaux character. In fact, sometimes they might be preferred to their more celebrated, and...
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The American Craft Beer Industry

FROM HUMBLE ORIGINS of homebrewing in California garages to selling to a multi-national corporation for a cool billion dollars, the American craft beer industry offers the unlikeliest of underdog stories.  For more than 3O years, a small cadre of upstart brewers slogged in an unlikely fight against a system built...
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