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ROC Brewing Solid After Two Years By Mark Tichenor When Jon Mervine and Chris Spinelli opened the ROC Brewing Company in 2011 on the outskirts of Rochester’s East End, they didn’t have a ton of commercial brewing experience, but they did...

The Rochester Area’s Smallest Commercial Brewery Just Got Bigger By Mark Tichenor The one-year-old Fairport Brewing Company, which produces its beers one half-barrel at a time, is renovating the old Pure Oil service station at the corner of...

by Mark Tichenor Now that the warmer weather is being forcibly dragged out into the open, maybe it’s time we sit down on a sunny patio and consider what the perfect summer beer might be. The answer, of course, is pilsner, a historic and much-revered...

Lambics, More Macho Than You Think by Mark Tichenor I’m writing this column from deep within the man box–you know, that narrowly defined range of emotions and interests that shows the outside world that one is truly deserving of being considered...

The High-Alcohol Switcheroo by Mark Tichenor There’s something in the American psyche that makes so many of us gravitate to the grandiose. Some view it as a great national trait, others a curse. No matter where we are, no matter what our tastes,...

Double IPA Still Rules The Roost by Mark Tichenor With low-alcohol session beers and delicate, lacey sour ales as its most recent fads, you could be forgiven for thinking the craft beer scene was mellowing out, losing it’s cojones, taking...

Three Heads Brewing Is Rochester’s Ambassador To America by Mark Tichenor Here in Rochester, we haven’t exactly been hurting for great beer. We’ve always had the humongous Genesee Brewery perched on the edge of our river gorge, and since...

New Beers Here From East and West By Mark Tichenor It’s gratifying to see how many great breweries take our tiny slice of Western New York seriously enough to distribute and market their products in Rochester. It says a lot about us as beer...

By Mark Tichenor Rochester’s latest craft brewery is… Genesee? It feels weird just to type those words but it’s true. Over on Cataract Street, in the recently opened Genesee Brew House, ex-Wagner Valley brewer Dean Jones is making...

There’s Nothing Wrong With Having A Big Head By Mark Tichenor The beer scene is all about pushing the envelope. Each new beer is bigger, stronger, hoppier or more sour. But sometimes the way to grow is to take a step back toward the fundamentals....