Men’s Journal’s 50 Best Beers in the World

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEShelton Brothers feel good about themselves again after Men’s Journal hits the stands!Shelton Brothers note with considerable satisfaction the release of the July issue of Men’s Journal, which includes an article on “The 50 Best Beers in the World.” The Men’s Journal panel…

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Shelton Brothers in the New York Times

Chug This? Shame on You By ERIC ASIMOV, published October 13, 2004 I know more than a few beer fanatics, and though they are fine people, almost all have an ax to grind. Why is wine, they want to know, venerated as a complex, sophisticated…

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Interview in the Beverage Business Journal

Reprinted with permission from journalist Andy Crouch. Copyright 2003. Dan Shelton is a purist. In an industry where self-criticism is considered impolitic and counter-productive, Shelton is given to making strong proclamations about the beer market and the products and brewing methods of his competitors. For…

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O Little Town of Belchertown!

Christmas transforms Belchertown, “America’s small town,” into one great festival of lights, and a generous, over-heaped smorgasbord of huge glowing plastic statues – bright figures of dogs, birds, moose, and more, all dressed up to resemble St. Nick, gently bobbing in the cold still air…

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C’mon Get Hoppy!

De Ranke H.O.P. Flower Power!Nino and Guido, meet the Partridge Family . . . That’s what this label looks like, anyway.The quintessential fake-family/fake-rock band’s fake-psychedelic mini-bus makes its way through a veritable shit-storm of what almost looks like marijuana, but is in fact Nino and…

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