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2017 Rhode Island Brew Fest

By | February 7, 2017

It was an exciting day for Rhode Island Brewing Society at the 2017 Rhode Island Brew Fest! So many people, with overwhelmingly positive responses, many great new contacts made, friends made, and, of course, there was BEER. Our South of the Wall, Clan MacIntosh, and KettleFrog were the stand-out hits of the day; not to toot… Read More »

Jamboree 16

By | September 22, 2016

It’s only been two short weeks since we got back from attending the New England Homebrewer’s Jamboree and already we’re starting to plan for next year’s jamboree. This was our third year attending this excellent event and we had a bigger crew than the two years before. You know what they say, the more the… Read More »

December Meeting

By | December 2, 2015

The usual monthly meeting for December is cancelled in favor of our annual Holiday party and beer swap for members only. If you would like to attend please check back in with us after the new year. Our next public meeting will be January 14th. Till then, grab some Porter or Scotch ale, light a… Read More »

Rhode Island Brewfest

By | January 30, 2015

We’re back! Our insurance woes have been resolved and we’re ready to pour at this Saturday’s RI BrewFest Winter Edition. Our table will be in the left hand corner as soon as you walk through the door, right next to Crooked Current and Tilted Barn. We’ll have plenty of good homebrews for this session:  … Read More »

Running for Beer

By | August 25, 2014

It’s been quite some time since our last update, we’ve apparently been enjoying summer quite a bit more than expected…. It was a mild and overcast day, very unlike any other July in Rhode Island. We had started our stretching routine and gotten the bibs that would mark us official participants in the Providence Craft… Read More »

A bigger bucket….

By | March 8, 2014

It was over a year ago when we went to that forsaken place…. the kind of place that only the downtrodden and hopeless would congregate. The population was rife with scurvy. Lights barely lit the room and the seats were covered in splinters….. Oh wait that was last night. What I’m really here to talk… Read More »

RI Brewfest 2014 Completed!

By | February 11, 2014

Here’s to another wildly successful Rhode Island Winter Brew Fest! This was our second time in attendance to this wonderful festival and we all had a great time and met a ton of awesome people. We went home with only about 2 kegs worth of beer, after having brought 5 of them. You people all… Read More »

RI Brewfest 2014 (Winter)

By | January 28, 2014

This is it people, the big day is almost here and it is certainly going to be the highlight of your February. February 1st, the RI Brewfest (http://www.ribrewfest.com/) returns to the Pawtucket Armory, boasting 165+ beers on hand for your sampling. If you haven’t bought a ticket already, I suggest you do. Here’s a list… Read More »

December Meeting: Cancelled

By | December 11, 2013

Just a reminder, the December meeting is CANCELLED, so we can do our annual Yankee Beer Swap and Potluck. Sorry, this is a Members only event. If you want to get in on next year’s event, we encourage you to show up to our January (Jan 9th) meeting. See you then!

In Craft Beer We Trust

By | July 4, 2013

Considering the holiday I feel like I should be writing a sanctimonious tirade about how craft beer will save the country and it’s the utopian future for all of us. While I believe it may be those things I wanted to leave you with a simple thought on this, the 237th birthday of our great… Read More »