Volunteer to Share Beers for the Holidays
This issue of Motif is spotlighting volunteerism and holiday theater, so let’s stretch a bit and suggest that proffer to make a show of your beer geek love this holiday […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Got Beer? Doom and Gloom Clickbait
If you don’t know what clickbait is, then I’d love to know if it’s comfy under that rock you live beneath, if people leave you alone to get work done, […]
Got Beer? New Sips and Fest Tips
This soul- and spirit-draining election season is almost over. If you’re looking for a unique alternative to the major party offerings, consider a write-in vote for Cthulhu. The cosmic creature’s […]
The Great International Beer Fest Celebrates Brewing History
In 2008, Smithsonian Magazine surprised its readers with the following declaration: “The best beers in the world today are being made in the US.” That may have been a shock […]
Got Beer? Watch Where the Gose Goes
I’ll admit, I was pretty skeptical about goses. Not to be confused with a geuze, a gose is wheat beer that originated in Goslar Germany and has sat in obscurity […]
A Slew of New Breweries Are on Tap!
In 2016, the Rhode Island brewing community welcomed Long Live Beerworks to its ranks. We’re already psyched for the new beermakers that are ramping up to start pouring alluring new […]
Go Brew Yourself!
Go on any brewery tour these days and they’ll try to stump you by asking to name the four ingredients of beer. If you slept through Beer 101, it’s barley, hops, […]
Talking Beer with Sean Larkin
For two decades, Sean Larkin has been synonymous with brewing in Rhode Island. From Trinity Brewhouse to Revival to Brutopia to his work with Narragansett Beer on their mash-ups, Lovecraft […]
Build Up to Beervana with Providence Beer Week
So, you may have heard of this thing called Beervana, the Nirvana for beer nerds. But such beer lovers — and food lovers and socialites and human beings alike — […]
Find Bliss at Beervana
Every year since its 2008 inception, Beervana has been charging ahead of the pack of the craft beer revolution. You won’t find Budweiser, Coors, Miller, Pabst, or any of the […]