Bet you thought we’d just gone and disappeared! Well, we did, actually—to Belize for an awesome, much-needed vacation of unplugging completely. But we’re back and going to attempt cramming in a bunch of posts in today. There are news bits, events and other industry stuff we’ve been catching up on.

We’re still trying to figure out what crashed the blog the last few days. Sorry about that. WordPress froze our account due to “extensive site traffic.” That’s not a bad thing at all, but considering we weren’t even posting new content, who knows what was causing all that.

Also, apologies to everyone who came to the Smuttynose tasting in anticipation of meeting someone from the brewery. Kevin Love, VP of Sales/Marketing, was indeed in town, but had to catch an earlier flight, so he missed the tasting. We regret the unintentional false advertising.