Four South Shore brewers, including three with a presence in Plymouth, have once again come together to celebrate the change of season and to support the local restaurants and bars that have buoyed them throughout the years. Now in its fifth year, the Four the Shore project is a collaboration between Second Wind Brewing Co., […]
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From hand sanitizer to bold spirits: How a local distillery found new uses for old beer
This is a story about beer, distilling, and the coronavirus. More accurately, it’s about how Plymouth’s Dirty Water Distillery, teamed up with local brewers to make (yet another) good use of beer and address a critical need during a time full of uncertainty. Studies have shown that alcohol-based hand sanitizers are a pretty good way […]
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Second Wind has been trying to open a Main St. taproom for five years. What’s the holdup?
If you’ve walked past the semi-rundown building at 11 Main St. any time over the past five years, you may have noticed a small handwritten sign in the window proclaiming the future opening of a Second Wind taproom on the first floor. (It already has a popular but tiny brewery tucked into a driveway space […]
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IndieFerm isn’t Plymouth’s highest-profile brewery, but it’s had an outsize impact on the local scene
All seven Plymouth breweries hold Farmer Brewery licenses from the Commonwealth, permitting them to brew, serve, and distribute their beers. Bringing the idea of a Farmer Brewer a little closer to home, Paul Nixon, owner of Independent Fermentation, is the only one of them to grow a portion of the brewery’s ingredients (hops) here in […]
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Serving beer with a distinct point of view
Vitamin Sea Brewing, which is scheduled to officially open on Saturday, May 25, may not need much of an introduction to beer drinkers along the South Shore. In 2019, the year the company opened its first commercial location, in Weymouth, Boston Magazine readers named it the best brewery in New England. Later that year, Hop […]
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Untold is the latest brewer to tap into Plymouth’s thirst for better beer
On the evening of Feb. 2, Untold Brewing announced on Instagram that its Plymouth taproom in North Plymouth on the edge of Cordage Park would open at 2 p.m. the next day in a “get to know us” mode. By 1:45 p.m. on Feb. 3, about 75 people were already lined up outside and the […]
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Local breweries make the ales, and more, for what ails you
The saying adorns T-shirts and bumper stickers: “Life is too short to drink crappy bear.’’ A clear volley aimed by craft beer aficionados at the likes of Budweiser, Coors and Miller Lite. Fortunately, Plymouth has plenty of locally brewed beer that is not crappy. This appealing trend started in 2008 with the debut of Mayflower […]
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Vitamin Sea makes it official: March opening planned for Water St. taproom
It was the worst keep secret on the local beer scene. Now it’s official. Weymouth-based Vitamin Sea Brewing says it will open a taproom on the Plymouth waterfront at 98 Water St., in the building that once housed the Governor Bradford hotel. It will be the second local for Vitamin Sea, which hopes to open […]
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What’s brewing in Plymouth: 4,200 gallons every week
Paul Boyd, a Plymouth resident, is a professor and faculty director of the MBA program at Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island. His research has focused on growth and success in the craft beer industry. To better understand the world of beer, Paul samples an occasional IPA – or two – around town and will share […]