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Today finds us smack-dab in the middle of American Craft Beer Week.  Hankering for an artisanal brew? Perhaps you should be. A craft beer is like a love child — passionately conceived, nurtured to life, coddled, unique… or maybe I’m just getting carried away? 

In any event, Monday marked the start of this literally nation-wide celebration of craft brews, with all 50 states participating in some form or fashion in hailing the fine art and science and quaffable product of this proudly American industry.

Tonight, in locales throughout Rhode Island, are organized craft beer tastings and dinners, while here in Boston you can head to any one of the city’s fine drinking establishments for samples. In addition, you can head to any licensed Whole Foods to see what they’re selling by way of locally crafted beers. For example, the River Street (Cambridge) store is featuring High and Mighty out of Holyoke, MA, and Nantucket’s Cisco Brewers. And that’s just the start…

Stay tuned for PRK’s upcoming interview with Julia Herz of the Brewers Association! We’re hoping to get the skinny on the canned beer trend.