Brewery Rowe: Raise a glass to New England’s beers and baseball

Brewery Rowe: Raise a glass to New England’s beers and baseball

Re: craft beer, East is East and West is best? Maybe not. My West Coast chauvinism crumbled during a recent tour of New England beer and baseball. San Diego’s David Jay led a six-person party on an epic expedition: five states, 12 breweries, four ballgames, all packed into six days. For a California beer snob, there were revelations galore. Vermont’s Hill Farmstead Brewery was named the world’s best small brewery by RateBeer.com readers. (Peter …