october

Ah, October. Pumpkin stouts, uber-hoppy seasonals, and Germany’s month to rack up some beer-goggled sexy points for gifting us Oktoberfest. While cities around the US tap into their most highly reputed beer buffs to say Guten Tag to beer fests, Pat Sargent, a recent Bryant College grad, brewed up a different plan, making him our first official Friend With Beer.

One of the best parts about Oktoberfest is that, in many places, it starts in September. A festival of this magnitude refuses to abide by some silly Pope's calendar. Gregory XIII...more of a "Zima" kind of pope.