Background Owner and brewer Bill Goldfarb started Lefty’s Brewing Company in 2010. Bill or Lefty home brewed for years as he worked as a commercial roofer. Goldfarb spent his life savings and borrowed from his grandfather to open a 2,000-square-foot facility in …

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Tin Bridge Brewing Background Joe and Nick Cocchi opened Westfield’s first visitable craft brewery, Tin Bridge Brewing, in October 2017.  Joe Cocchi, guitarist for a popular local band and his brother Nick who has spent several years on the road working for …

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Background Matt Tarlecki, owner & brewer, opened Abandoned Building Brewery in 2013. Tarlecki, who is from the Philadelphia area has been home brewing since his college days at California Polytechnic State University. After college Tarlecki returned to the Philadelphia area and worked …

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Background – New City Brewery Sam Dibble began brewing small batches of mead in his carpentry shop in 2006. When friends were looking for help with their new kombucha business in 2007, Sam became their first employee and worked to increase …

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Background Trillium Brewing Company was founded by JC and Esther Tetreault. They opened the first retail store in March 2013 in the Fort Point area in South Boston. At the time it was the only place where you could buy Trillium beer. …

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Background Cambridge Brewing Company opened its doors in 1989 at a time when Sam Adams reigned supreme and Harpoon had just moved into the Seaport area. Owner Phil “Brewdaddy” Bannatyne spent his “formative years” in San Francisco. There he acquired …

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Background Lamplighter Brewing Company AC Jones and Cayla Marvil are transplants from a small town in Vermont where they enjoyed the several town breweries and were avid home brewers. After moving to the Cambridge area they were amazed at the …

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Background The idea of BrewLAB started in 2012 by three home-brewing friends, Rob Peed, Peter Goldammer, and Steve Jarmie. The opportunity for the space soon came up and the trio began piecing together the brewery. Everything in the tasting room …

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Background Fieldwork Brewing Company is a craft brewery founded in Berkeley, CA in 2015. Brewmaster Alex Tweet & businessman Barry Braden partnered up to open Fieldwork. Tweet, who had worked at both Modern Times and Ballast Point, is the man who …

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Background Central Coast Brewing George Peterson opened Central Coast Brewing in 1998. They started very small and worked up to a five-barrel brew system — the one that adorns CCB’s logo. Then Brendan Gough arrived as an assistant brewer. After …

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