Monthly Archives: March 2014

Mar 16 2014
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Beer, In the Name of Science

The Yankee Beer List

Casey Butler Harwood's avatarWater, Water Everywhere And Not A Drop To Drink

This is what happens when you don’t eat dinner before a Friday night at BK Brewery. Photo: Ms. Megan Whitney Moore

In my five legal (and absolutely zero illegal) years of beer swilling, I’ve had quite a few American-made concoctions. I feel it would be painful to retroactively track down each and every one of them, so I’m just going to start anew and add as I imbibe/recall. As usual, they’re in vaguely alphabetical order and the newest additions will be in bold. Enjoy…

  1. 16 Mile Brewing Company Harvest Ale
  2. 16 Mile Brewing Company Inlet India Pale Ale
  3. 21st Amendment Brewery Hell or High Watermelon
  4. Abita Amber
  5. Abita Purple Haze
  6. Allagash Black
  7. Allagash White
  8. Anchor Brewing Co. Steam Ale
  9. Anchor Brewing Co. Liberty Ale
  10. Anchor Brewing Co. Summer Beer
  11. Anchor Brewing Co. Our Special Ale (Merry Christmas 2012)
  12. Atlantic Brewing Company Bar Harbor Real Ale
  13. Ballast Point Big Eye IPA

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Mar 16 2014
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People, Snow

Five Questions with Colin Boyd and Jackie Paaso

Casey Butler Harwood's avatarTHE FIRST CHAIR

You might think that something with “free” in the name seems out of place in our Competition Issue, but in the case of the Freeride World Tour, you’d be sorely mistaken. The FWT is one of the most intense competition circuits—and competitors ride some of the most extreme faces—on the planet: Chamonix, Revelstoke, Verbier… the list goes on.

Jackie Paaso, 31, who finished third overall last year and just won her favorite event at Chamonix, started skiing at age 4. At Sunday River. Colin Boyd, 27, managed to qualify for the FWT this year with no sponsors to speak of and banked a solid eighth-place finish at his first event. Both are graduates of Gould Academy and the Sunday River School of Awesome, which totally exists, so we asked them to tell us a bit about life on Tour and, well, life in general. They happily obliged (as…

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Mar 16 2014
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Ship Shape, Snow

Tough Mountain Challenge Does. It. Better.

Mar 11 2014
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People, Snow

Simon Dumont. Go Bigger: Go Home.

Casey Butler Harwood's avatarTHE FIRST CHAIR

What does a guy whose nickname is the “Godfather” of freestyle skiing aspire to? Bigger and better, of course. Simon Dumont has arguably done more for halfpipe skiing than any other, and he’s got 10 X Games medals and an AFP world title to prove it. While Dumont mostly splits his time between Colorado and Florida, home will always be Maine. Six years ago, Dumont created The Dumont Cup at his home mountain, Sunday River, which also happens to be where he set the world quarterpipe height record—just sayin’. After a knee injury in late January, he’s on the mend at Olympic facilities in Park City, Utah. Come March, though, he’s returning to Sunday River for his annual event, and he’s bringing grand designs of designing the grandest terrain park in the East and, just maybe, in North America.

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