At the end of this summer, MillerCoors plans to roll out bottles of Miller Lite with the original white labels. The last time such plans were under way was 40 years ago, right before the early 1975 launch of the iconic brand, with that same white label on the bottles, which created a niche that... View Article
There is a story, at least partly apocryphal, of Charlie Papazian, co-founder of the American Homebrewers Association, telling the great English beer critic Michael Jackson that he and some other Yanks were thinking of launching something called the Great American Beer Festival. “That’s a great idea, Charlie,” Jackson said. “Only what will you serve for... View Article
On Tuesday, June 2, 1987, two bars in Boston tapped the first kegs of Harpoon Ale. Commercial breweries had returned to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Rich Doyle and Dan Kenary delivered the kegs tapped at Doyle’s Café in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood and at the Sevens Ale House in Beacon Hill. The pair, along with... View Article
