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"I like Amesbury for my own reasons," says
Bareford. "It's got a lot of mill city charm to
it, and we love the locals." If the mission is
making the best beer possible, then maybe
the incentives are the people they make the
beer for and the places they make the beer in.
ere's nothing quite like feeling welcome.
Asking your average craft beer geek to
name their favorite brews is asking a lot. e
craft beer market grows by leaps and bounds
even from one year to the next; there's a ton of
great beer out there for die-hard beer lovers to
sample, so narrowing down the ones we like
best is naturally a daunting task. But asking a
craft beer brewer to name their favorite brews
is an even bigger ask. ey're the people tink-
ering with recipes, sampling new beers made
in classic styles, pushing the definitions of
what craft beer can be. If anyone needs to take
a pause when considering the beers that they
like best, it's a brewer.
riverwalkbrewing.com,
barewolfbrewing.com, silvaticusbeers.com
Top, Silvaticus co-owner
Mark Zappasodi (left)
and co-owner/brewer
Jay Bullen (right) took
an Old World approach
to their brewery. Left,
beer names are rooted in
Latin; Zappasodi (shown
here) cleans the brewery.
