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Sebago Lake Distillery Debuts Range Of High End Craft Rums

Sebago Lake Distillery is proud to announce the official opening of their Maine-based distillery and the successful launch of three distinctly different and innovative, handcrafted rum brands, with another set to debut later this year. Sebago Lake is Maine’s only distiller focused exclusively on producing rum. Sebago Lake Distillery represents...
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Newcastle Summer Grilling Recipe Series

Just in time for summer, Newcastle Brown Ale is releasing a series of grilling recipes in partnership with MasterChef Season 7 champion, Shaun O’Neale. Before appearing on the hit FOX cooking competition show, Shaun was a DJ performing at some of the biggest music festivals and nightclubs around the country....
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ENDANGERED COCKTAIL OF THE MONTH: THE TIPPERARY

EVERYONE feels a little Irish this month, what with St. Patrick’s Day being one of Massachusetts’ favorite drinking holidays! It also happens to be a for-real holiday in the Bay State: Evacuation Day, established to commemorate the day when British troops evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War. It ended an...
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STOUT

AROUND St. Patrick’s Day, one of the Holy Grails of beer sales holidays in the United States, thoughts turn to Ireland and beer. In writing about Irish beers over the last decade, the story used to be that brewing was a dying trade. The modern day story has long been...
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TAMING TANNAT IN THE LAND OF PAINTED BIRDS

ASKED to explain why wine can capture and hold the interest – even the fascination – of so many and so disparate a spectrum, I thought that, after the good tastes, social lubrication, food enhancement, and health promotion, it must be the infinite variety.  There is always another vineyard, another...
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CHABLIS

IF YOU’RE looking for classic Chardonnay that tastes bone dry, minerally and understated in flavor, there is little to compare with the wines of Chablis. While the historic village technically lies within greater Burgundy, it is a terroir unto itself, separated from the rest of the illustrious French wine region...
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CARMIGNANO – WINE of the MEDICI

ALTHOUGH, as Tuscany’s smallest, Carmignano is not a well-known wine appellation, by history and quality it stands high in the pantheon. Officially honored for hundreds of years, it was among the first to receive the DOCG. Carmignano may be viewed as having anticipated the Super Tuscans nearly 5OO years ago...
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