Week eight The game: Patriots at Bills The beer: Wachusett Green Monsta India Pale Ale The result: Win, 25–6 Week nine The game: Packers at Patriots The beer: Urban Chestnut Zwickel German-Style Lager The result: Win, 31–17 Week ten The game: Patriots at Titans The beer: Tuckerman 6288 Stout The result: Loss, 34–10 Week eleven […]
Week five The game: Colts at Patriots The beer: Campanology For Whom Imperial Mexican Stout The result: Win, 38–24 Week six The game: Chiefs at Patriots The beer: Ballast Point Indra Kunindra Stout The result: Win, 43–40 Week seven The game: Patriots at Bears The beer: Ipswich Dark Ale The result: Win, 38–31 The commentary: […]
The game: Dolphins at Patriots The beer: Peak Organic Fresh Cut Pilsner The result: Win, 38–7 The commentary: My cousin (the one on the right) got married in Maine on Saturday and, until a couple of months ago, the plan was for A. and me to make a grown-up getaway weekend out of it, complete […]
Week one The game: Texans at Patriots The beer: Clown Shoes Rexx Imperial Red Ale The result: Win, 27–20; Titans/Jarrod lose (times four), 27–20 Week two The game: Patriots at Jaguars The beer: 603 NH Ale The result: Loss, 31–20 Week three The game: Patriots at Lions The beer: Riverwalk Cash Bus Pale Ale The […]
The beer: Montauk Session India Pale Ale The commentary: “Bitter? Nah.” A little, actually. We almost missed training camp and that would have been a shame. The Patriots only release the open-to-the-public portion of the schedule a few dates at a time with little notice (shocker) and the lack of joint sessions with another team […]
The game: Patriots vs. Eagles The beer: Collective Arts Stranger Than Fiction Porter The result: Fuuuuuuck The commentary: There I was, chain-drinking bombers with the first setting up a presumed—upon winning—deep dive into socialized literature. Said plans, though, were scrapped early when our defense declared “No more!” So what better time to revisit a Super […]
The beer: Great Divide Hibernation English-Style Old Ale The commentary: An excerpt from the—by god—forthcoming “Don’t gimme no affliction: 25 years of ‘Moonlight on Vermont’ and other bush recordings.” During the summer of 1993, which fell between my freshman and sophomore years of college and would prove to be the final extended stretch of time […]
The game: Jaguars at Patriots The beer: Gun Hill Void of Light Foreign Style Stout The result: Win, 24–20 The commentary: Complacency is a bitch but also a defense mechanism and that’s how a fourth-quarter, two-score deficit keeps the terror-sweat at bay, however barely. You’ve got it good when your six-year-old declares with certainty—in the […]
The game: Titans at Patriots The beer: Mayflower Oatmeal Stout The result: Win, 35–14 The commentary: I would never have read Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry were it not for the Ladies. From the book club’s first meeting—back when the Pats had won a game more than it lost—and nominations were flying […]
The beer: Maine Mean Old Tom Stout The commentary: In honor of the MBTA refusing to look forward—with excuse-ridden complaints of “last week’s historic tidal surge” delaying and outright canceling countless commuter trains ever since—and also of Commissioner Rico finally paying out, here is the closing set of knockout-pool statistics that interest only me… and […]
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