Butters’ Tavern, Butter’s Fine Food & Wine, and Tavern Ale: Connected More than You Think

Butters Fine Food & Wine | March 19, 2012

Butters’ Tavern, Butter’s Fine Food & Wine, and Tavern Ale (White Birch Brewing): Connected

Top 10 Most Memorable Beers of the Year -2010

Butters Fine Food & Wine | January 7, 2011

As a contributor to Butter’s Fine Food and Wine’s food blog, I can’t help but think that writing about beer for a well known, high end, gourmet food store can’t be a bad gig. I get to try all kinds of beer from all over the world and hope that someday, the beers I enjoy the most, will pass the NH liquor bureaucrat’s sniff test and that those bureaucrats will bless those beers onto the shelves of fine NH craft beer outlets. There is a bottle-neck bringing new beer labels into the state right now because of an immense cost to the brewery per label, but let’s not go there today.

Today, I’d like to focus on my Top 10 Most Memorable Beers of 2010.

Butter’s Fine Food and Wine Defines “Hop Head” with Michael Kuderka- How to Find the IPA that’s Right for Me

Butters Fine Food & Wine | December 9, 2010

Butter’s Fine Food and Wine recently sat down with Michael Kuderka, Managing Partner of MC Bassett, LLC- the company that publishes the ultimate guide to beer known as “ The Beer Bible”   (http://www.thebeerbible.com/home.php).  We sat down to discuss and define “The Hop Head- Finding the right IPA”. “Not all IPA fans are Hop Heads, but IPA consumers are definitely [...]

Butter's Fine Food and Wine Explores Pilsners with Michael Kuderka

Butters Fine Food & Wine | October 17, 2010

 ”If you had told me when I first starting drinking craft beer and home brewing 20 years ago that I would ever be seeking out and enjoying pilsners, I think I might have laughed at the assertion. However, with more craft brewers adding the pilsner style to their brand line up, and pushing the flavor [...]