A Review of Coachella 2011

By Julie Davis / Boston

Empire of the Sun

It was like walking on a dream watching Empire of the Sun.

Amazing performers Their music was perfect, I could definitely find myself swaying back with my mind just all into the music. They sang all the songs that I love from them really well. They had the best performance. The awesome and highly detailed costumes and dancers and choreography were the best part.

Ratatat

I hadn’t heard of them before but going to the performance in the mojavi tent was amazing. We posted up right in the front to get a good place to listen and feel the crazy bass of the beats. I ended up loving them. I am definitely going to go download their album now!

Good Ol’ St. Paddy!

St. Paddy’s Day 2007

By Lexi Boddy / Newport, Wales

Traditionally, St. Patrick’s Day is a religious festival, “All hail the patron saints of Ireland,” but no one is complaining that the world has adopted this day as their own as an excuse to get pissed up*, eat plentifully and don* the green items at the back of the wardrobe every year on the 17th March.

Jameson Whiskey

By Julie Davis / Boston

Sooo, St. Patty’s day is here! Or is it St. Paddy?

All Will Meyers Told Me About Brewing My Own Beer is to be Clean

By Katie Kenny

Check out my next entry to hear about my first brewing experience

A couple months ago, I wrote an article titled “Tapping into Boston’s Craft Beer” and was lucky enough to interview the Cambridge Brewing Company’s brewmaster, Will Meyers. This article was the reason Boston Brew started and Meyers helped me out a little when I made my own brew at home.

The beginning of this interview is in the previous post so if you haven’t read it you best get on it.

Alright, so I hope you know that you have an awesome job title. What exactly does a Cambridge Brewing Company “brewmaster” do? Where do you get your inspiration and what is your process for crafting your brews?

Well, I direct an amazing brewing staff of four, and together we make incredible, award-winning beers! We focus both on traditional interpretations of well-known beer styles and on obscure beer styles, and on experimental brews never before seen on earth.

Boston Brew Returns and She’s got a Brewmaster.

I went back home to Hong Kong for a holiday. Here we see what I did most of the time.

By Katie Kenny / Boston

In the spirit of superhero movies (examples: Batman and Superman) I, Boston Brew returns to the blogerific world. I am a journalist who has always loved beer. Nowhere near as much, however, until I decided to write a 3,000 word article on craft beer in Boston. I hopped from one barstool to the next, pint glass to pint glass and spoke to a few of the big dogs in the Boston beer world in efforts to learn all I could before making my own brew. Having been compared to a mad scientist on a number of occasions when caught in the middle of the brewing experience, I eventually decided to leave it the professionals but I still continue to search for the perfect pint, this time with a whole keg full of knowledge (too cute? I promise I’ll stop).

If you are unfamiliar with this humble Boston beer loving interweb experience you can catch up by clicking RIGHT HERE. Ha blogging humor.

Alright, now that’s out of the way let’s get to it.

I regularly review bars and beers and pretty much comment on anything to do with beer. This time I am giving you an interview with the Cambridge Brewing Company Brewmaster, Will Meyers. I tried cutting it down but the man has so much to say (and all good) so I left as is and will only split the interview into separate posts.

Chase’ing the Russians?

By Lexi Boddy / Traveling Correspondent (currently in Exeter)

We all know where to turn to for the world’s top-notch* vodka; or do we? Who would have thought it would be the UK? As it turns out, this spiffing* country can lay down the fundamentals to produce a ruddy-good* spud! As we know (or should know), vodka can be fermented and distilled from any starch/sugar-rich plant, like grains and surprise surprise, potatoes!

Creaming For Ice Cream

By Jess / London

Londoners love a good ice-creamery/gelato joint and the persistent cold weather proves no deterrent. Currently making a very loud splash in the ocean of all this creamy goodness are The Icecreamists.

Only just officially open at their Covent Garden address, The Icecreamists have managed to sell out of their most in demand and unusual flavour; Baby Gaga.

Yes, Baby as in infant and Gaga as in horn-wearing, egg-hatching ridiculous. The flavour in question is an ice cream made with breast milk. Yep, actual human breast milk from a real-life local mother. The Icecreamists have paired this with a delicate balance of vanilla pods, lemon zest and cream. But at £15 / US$24 for just one scoop, shocking the general public does not come cheap.

With Baby Gaga constantly sold out (I know, right?!) it’s unlikely I’ll be able to taste it, but do I really want to try it…?

See more at http://www.theicecreamists.com/

Sectioning Off

We haven’t launched yet but we are testing out the sections. Take a look at the different pages to find out what we are going to be writing about.