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Co-founders Bob and Nancy Bixby brewed this versatile Berliner Weisse for their taproom guests who sought something other than beer.

After a bitter fight to stay in Lancaster, Bull Spit Brewing Co. is finding a warm reception in Winchendon.

By Matthew Tota Timberyard Brewing Co. spent much of 2020 pivoting and belt-tightening. The East Brookfield brewer furloughed all five of its part-time servers last March, then tried for the better part of the spring and summer to find the hours to piece its staff together again. This year, though, Timberyard has already hired six new servers and a kitchen assistant. Production has increased by 200%, as the brewery signed a new distribution deal and hired on its first assistant brewer. Area breweries were rebounding from the pandemic well before the state lifted all COVID-19 restrictions. Now...

Stories of misogyny, sexual harassment in craft beer hit close to home, spur reckoning in industry

Matthew Tota Correspondent The first time Andrew Woodward handed me one of his beers, his brewery only existed on paper. In June 2019, the 90-year-old barn at Oakholm Farm in Brookfield looked worn and dusty, an enclave for spiders, and had not yet transformed into Woodward’s handsome taproom. A broken concrete foundation occupied the spot where his 10-barrel brewhouse now sits. And instead of a beer garden, wild grass grew into the woods. We stood under a tent, drinking beers from a trailer Woodward had rigged with taps and a cooler for kegs. I visited the farm to write about the idea of O...