Session Beer

Should a low-ABV beer be high on your brewing schedule? Here, brewers who are crafting “mid-strength” ales and lagers—in the neighborhood of 3 percent ABV—weigh in on whether they might thrive among stronger and nonalcoholic options.

Despite recent health-focused headlines, we have an opportunity to position beer as the alcoholic beverage of moderation and a healthy social lifestyle.

In Massachusetts, Notch has carved a niche for traditional lagers and ales of modest strength and for bar service that honors those traditions—and, along the way, its confident approach has had an outsized influence on the industry.