Ned LaFortune, a cofounder of Wachusett Brewing in Massachusetts, remembers the long-ago day when he walked into a Brattleboro pub owned by Ray McNeill (April 26, 1960-December 2, 2022) and drank his first pint of hand-pumped ale. “It tasted like fresh bread,” LaFortune marveled. “It was the most amazing beer I’d ever had in my […]
