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Today, whether it is New Amsterdam in New York City, Catamount Amber in Vermont, Abita in Louisiana, Lair Dog at the Tap & Growler in Chicago, Reinheitsgebot in Plano, Texas, or one of the 20 regional brews on tap at Cooper's Ale House in Seattle, the appeal of locally brewed beer is akin to that of regional cheeses, breads and homegrown vegetables. "It's the fascination with something unique and handcrafted," says Shelby Meyer, who writes a newsletter for a home-brewers' club...
Back in Vermont in 1984, Mason hooked up with Davis, who was running an artist-in-residence program there for the National Endowment for the Arts. In the mists of the future, they discovered, each could see Catamount looming small. They began to work out financing: stock sold to a few believers and a low-interest community-developme nt loan. Mason was aiming at something close to English real ale, though he knew there would have to be some touch-up carbonation to accommodate the colonials' taste for fizz. Beer drinkers in Vermont and New Hampshire, the intended markets, bought...
Most used equipment available was far too big for Catamount, whose production this month will begin with only about 2,500 cases for its market area of New Hampshire and Vermont. But a yeast tank from a dismantled Stroh brewery in Detroit became a brew kettle. A high-tech Italian wine filter turned out to be ideal. Stainless-steel conditioning tanks were built to order. By September the partners were ready to begin ten weeks of practice | brewing. Mason says there were few surprises. At one point, a daily check of the yeast culture by Consulting Biologist Mike Sinclair showed...
...observer hears all this with interest and growing thirst. Davis is about to pour glasses of Catamount to illustrate a point he is making when a local dairy farmer arrives to pay for a batch of used barley mash, which he feeds to his cattle. Conversation develops, and the beer remains unpoured. Are there not cows to be milked? Perhaps there is some manure to be shoveled? At last the observer gets his glass of Amber. It is red in cast, bread fresh, with the body of a weight lifter: serious beer. A glass of Gold is similarly muscular, though...
...fast team, Vermont will try to skate with the fleet Crimson while relying on Draper to hold Harvard's big guns--Lane MacDonald (25-14--42), Tim Barakett (20-20--40) and Allen Bourbeau (14-20--34)--in check. Meanwhile, Catamount scorers like Jeff Capello (12-12--24) will try to punch a few pucks past McEvoy...