Drunken Rabbit Brewing Background Bruno Coelho and Dave Smith opened Drunken Rabbit Brewing in December 2017. The pair has been friends/co-workers for almost 20 years. Bruno has been home brewing for many years and has won some home brewing competitions. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Background Three friends Michael Oxton, Mike O’Mara, and Rob Burns began home brewing in a Somerville, MA kitchen in 2007. They called themselves “Night Shift Brewing” – desk workers by day, home brewers by night. In 2010, the trio began …
Background Jack’s Abby was founded in 2011 by three brothers, Jack, Eric, and Sam Hendler. Jack is the head brewer. Jack’s Abby is loyal to lager, a German style that requires a longer fermenting process. The Jack’s Abby brewing team travels …
Background – Remnant Brewing Across the river from Boston, Somerville’s Union Square is home to a new brewery started by David Kushner and Joel Prickett called Remnant Brewing. Kushner who gained brewery experience at John Harvard’s Brewery & Prickett who spent …
In 1986 Dan Kenary, Rich Doyle, and George Ligeti received Brewing Permit #001 for Harpoon Brewery. They had a warehouse on the Boston waterfront and the brewing equipment, and then found Russ Heissner as head brewer. Russ started formulating the recipe for Harpoon Ale in …
Background – Samuel Adams Brewing The Boston Beer Company “AKA Samuel Adams Brewing” was founded in 1984 by James “Jim” Koch as a limited liability partnership. Koch’s father and great, great grandfather were both involved in the brewing industry. Koch brewed …
