Early in July, Massachusetts and New Hampshire came together in agreement that New England is handling the pandemic pretty well - get your shit together Georgia and Florida - and lifted the mutual mandatory/suggested quarantine for visitors from the other state (take a hint Maine). For me that means more hiking in my favorite spot - The White Mountains - as well as opening me up to New Hampshire breweries.
Breweries are back open - Awesome! However, if you were expecting to gather the gang up and congregate at the bar like it was 2019, things have changed.
Once again, I got up earlier than anyone on vacation ever should, and headed to my next hike in Acadia National Park. When I first heard about the Precipice Trail heading up Mt Champlain, I was thrilled - it just sounded like a ton of fun. After reading some blog posts saying that if I found the Beehive easy, the Precipice trail should provide a healthy challenge, I was...
I arrive in the charming village of Bar Harbor and quickly check into my airBnB. The room I was renting for the weekend was in a beautifully restored old house, just a few blocks from Main Street. After spending some...
A little over an hour after leaving Cushnoc in Augusta, ME we arrived at Masons - located in the aptly named Brewer, Maine, just across the Penobscot River from Bangor. If I lived in a place called Brewer, I’d probably would open my own brewery too. Masons was actually an unplanned stop...
Here commences my first review of hopefully many to come. If you’re reading this, I will make the assumption that you - at the bare minimum - occasionally enjoy craft beer. Please note, that I will not pretend to be a beer sommelier - a hoplier(?) - or the “final word” on a beer or brewery. I am just a person who enjoys craft beer. That being said...