http://www.beerencounters.com Beer Encounters - A place for serious New England beer lovers! Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:28:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Week 4 - November 2008 Our pick of the week for beer of the week is an extreme beer from the Samuel Adams collection! Samuel Adams partnered Felchlin, a renowned Swiss chocolatier, to develop a unique innovation, Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock. It is a complex selection of roasted malts combined with ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/11/chocolate-bock-boston-beer-company/ Four guys from Nashua are spending their free time traveling New England to drink beer – and tell you about it. Mike Rego, one of the founders of BeerEncounters.com, runs the Web site with three of his friends: Matt Zukowski, Jim Messier and Dan Archambault. The four travel all ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/11/pals-have-close-encounters-of-their-favorite-kind/ Week 2 - November 2008 Week 2 calls for a little Northern Light Ale from our friends at the Sebago Brewing Company located in Portland, Maine. Northern Light Ale is crisp light body all malt beer. ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/11/northern-light-ale-sebago-brewing-company/ Week 1 - November 2008 Mayflower Brewing Company is a craft beer brewery that is located in historic Plymouth, MA. Pale Ale which is their flagship brew is our pick of the week. This is a traditional English pale ale with a mild malt character and aroma offset by ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/11/pale-ale-mayflower-brewing-company/ Week 4 - October 2008 And so October comes to close with a brew from Mercury Brewing Company out of Ipswich, MA. Stone Cat Octoberfest is our beer of the week! This malt-accented, amber-colored lager is brewed in the Munich Festbier tradition with all Vienna maltfrom Germany and is the ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/10/stone-cat-octoberfest-mercury-brewing-company/ Week 4 - October 2008 Hoptoberfest by Hops Grill and Bar located in Newington, Connecticut is our pick for the beer of the week. This casual dining microbrewery restaurant offers excellent brews made fresh on location. Among these great beers is Hoptoberfest. It is a medium bodied, reddish-golden, classic ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/10/hoptoberfest-hops-grill-and-bar/ Week 3 - October 2008 One of the best pumpkin ales around! Great Pumpkin Ale by Cambridge Brewing Company located in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA lives up to the name! This one is Cambridge Brewing Company's most sought after seasonal beer, Great Pumpkin Ale flows from the taps all autumn ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/10/great-pumpkin-ale-cambridge-brewing-company/ Week 2 - October 2008 The beer of the week is The Big O "Oktoberfest" from the P[ennichuck Brewing Company located in Amherst New Hampshire. It is a dark amber Oktoberfest style lager that pours with a lacey tan head, has aromas of Vienna malt and caramel which pair nicely ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/10/the-big-o-pennichuck-brewing-company/ Week 1 - October 2008 As we begin October, and get ready for our 2nd Annual Great Pumpkin Beer Tasting Halloween party. What better beer to feature this week? Halloween Ale by Gritty McDuff's Brewing Company out of Portland, Maine is our pick of the week. The legendary Halloween ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/09/halloween-ale-gritty-mcduffs/ Week 4 - September 2008 As September comes to a close we end with a nice Bock from Narragansett Brewing Company located in Providence, Rhode Island. This traditional dark lager beer that delivers a uniquely delicious flavor experience. It's a well-done dark lager with mocha and caramel notes that ... http://www.beerencounters.com/2008/09/narragansett-bock-narragansett-brewing-company-2/