Left of the Dial IPA
What does “IPA” mean? Really? Beyond the acronym for India Pale Ale, what does it stand for? And how has that changed over the last 10 years, or over the last 100? Beer styles evolve, change, disappear and then sometimes reappear. None are authentic, and at best some are traditional, but only if we know the [...]
Černé Pivo!
Černe Pivo is back! Our Czech-style black lager is here to help you through the long, cold, cruel Massachusetts winter. Our blog post from last year pretty much covers all the basics, but we’ve added a few new pictures and edited out the bombast (well, not really). Call this a living blog post, or us being [...]
Valley Malt BSA
Valley Malt BSA hits the shelves this week, taps next week, and you can catch us at the release party at Clover in Inman Sq Cambridge on October 4th. You may have noticed the name of the beer has changed, but the foundation of this beer remains the same – supporting Massachusetts agriculture. The Brewer [...]
JP Music Fest Beer!
A quick blog hit about the Squirrel Brew that Notch brewed for the JP Music Fest, as you’ll start seeing it pop up at bars all over Jamaica Plain this weekend. The beer is a very short run of 13 lucky kegs that will be used for fundraising efforts for the fest. I cut my [...]
Notch Polotmavý
Another hard to pronounce beer from Notch! Our Notch Polotmavy is a brand new beer from us, and a limited release available in draft and 22 ounces bottles (specs and deets here). It’s yet another style from the Czech Republic that gets very little exposure in the US, and is a wonderful alternative to the [...]
Notch Tafelbier
I already get the fair share of quizzical looks with my beers (”No IPA?!”), and the new Tafelbier will ensure that continues. This is a Belgian influenced table beer of 2.8% ABV that relies on subtlety and created with a pretty simple idea in mind – a refreshing yet interesting thirst quencher for the heat [...]
Black Bitter – cask only series #3
The cask only series returns with Notch Black Bitter. Black Bitter? Yes, Black Bitter. It’s an odd (we love odd), yet intriguing little beer from Notch, born of my long desire to make a hoppy mild. But Black Bitter was a better reflection of the recipe, and it has a cool alliteration. Other than that, [...]
Spring Beer Releases
Notch Saison Six Packs. Workers unite! Our funky little farmhouse friend, Notch Saison, hits six packs in mid-March for year round consumption. This was always the intent, but the 22oz release was to test out the reception of a Saison brewed to its original, workers beer strength. I was a bit humbled with the response [...]
BSA Harvest Ale
Notch’s second limited release, our new BSA Harvest Ale, was previewed at the Gulu Gulu in Salem during North Shore Beer Week last Thursday, and we’ll do the same tonight, October 7th at Clover in Harvard Square at 8PM. So it’s time for a bit of background on our first beer with an acronym in [...]
Notch Cask Series – #1: Dark Mild
May kicks off Notch’s cask only series, where a one-off batch is brewed for cask only. May is also CAMRA’s Mild Month, and while this is a British thing, Notch will be participating stateside by releasing the Notch Dark Mild. This is something I’ve wanted to brew for a while, but would never release in [...]