It won’t be easy: if you don’t live within driving distance of Massachusetts, you’ll have to have someone pick up a few cans at the brewery and FedEx them to you, because that’s how things work. But why not see if you can get hold of some authentically New England “New England IPA,” like Julius from Tree House Brewing or (available as I wrote this) Trillium’s True New Englander Double IPA. If you like your IPAs cloudy, “juicy,” blazingly aromatic, and not overly bitter, you could argue that any “New England IPA” type beer could fit the bill. (It is even proudly served at Gillette Stadium.) There’s also a movement now in some beer circles called Flagship February, where folks go out of their way to drink the classic craft beers that got this movement started, so some Boston Lager on Super Bowl Sunday would be doubly appropriate! Harpoon IPA also fits right in with that idea, and is widely available along the East Coast. Plus, you know you can always find Sam Adams no matter where you are in this great country. There are plenty of great breweries here, both new and well-established. Pats fans know that beer in eastern Massachusetts is a different story. ![]() There is now no dearth of breweries in greater Los Angeles but they’re young and mostly small. If you’re going to be watching the game in Cali, you have the aforementioned Three Weavers as well as Beachwood BBQ, Smog City, El Segundo and Monkish. It’s up to you but that Wolf Pup sure drinks pretty good. It is one of the craft breweries that was bought by Anheuser-Busch InBev over the past few years, and many ardent beer fans are steadfast in their resistance. The only thing is, like the halftime show with Maroon 5, there’s controversy with Golden Road. Their deliciously aromatic Wolf Pup Session IPA makes friends wherever it pops up, and at 4.5-percent alcohol by volume it’s got the long-haul combination of flavor and sessionability you’ll need to keep going through at least three hours of gridiron glory. You may find some Three Weavers up the coast if you’re lucky, but for Rams fans anywhere other than California, you’ll have to make do with some Golden Road. (The oldest packaging brewery in the area, Eagle Rock, is celebrating nine years this month.) Los Angeles came to the craft beer game a bit later than most American cities, and it is still catching up. Unfortunately, if you want to get behind the Rams and baby-faced Jared Goff, the pickings are slim, unless you’re actually in L.A. (Atlanta, for better or worse, has even extended bar closing time by 90 minutes to 4 AM for the whole Super Bowl week.) ![]() And if you can’t decide or you’re actually going to be at the game, you’ve got Atlanta beers, too. Naturally, you have your pick of Boston-area beers and Los Angeles-area beers. No doubt, New England fans already have some celebratory beverages on hand just in case they snag another Lombardi trophy.Īnd speaking of drinks, let’s talk about what I consider the most important part of the game: the beer. An exaggeration, sure, but with five Pats appearances in the past ten years, it’s not that far out. It’s Super Bowl weekend, that contentious time of year when some lucky team gets to meet Tom Brady and the Patriots in the season’s biggest football game.
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