Lauren Vigdor

I spent more than a decade working in bars, and I had the opportunity to meet and serve all sorts of people with all different tastes. When I moved from a position as the beverage director of a craft beer bar in a city to bartending on a rooftop in a small resort town, I […]

I’m going to confess something that feels like an industry secret. I used to make a lot of money selling Victory Sour Monkey. I was the beverage director for a couple of bars in Boston, including a beer bar that offered 32 drafts and over 50 bottles and cans on any given day. I chose

When I lived in Boston, I had a superpower. Every time I moved out of an apartment, within a few years (and sometimes less), a brewery would open up within a block of that apartment. In my early 20s, I lived on a dead-end street in Somerville. Shortly after I moved out of that apartment,

I’ve never officially lived in Baltimore, but it has become something of a home away from home for me. My partner grew up there, and we have a lot of family in and around the city. One of our favorite things to do in any city is to check out local breweries, and since he

I’ve had a lot of opportunities to drink beer and visit breweries. I used to work as a beverage director and bar manager, which means that tasting new beer types and styles was actually part of my job! The craft beer scene in America is no joke, and it’s only grown in the last few