Boston area thread

[pjl44]

Non-mobile link.

Weird. I can access it from my phone.

 

[JCastle1]

Weird. I can access it from my phone.

Brian fixed your link because the one you posted was mobile and doesn't look right on computers.

 

[pjl44]

Brian fixed your link because the one you posted was mobile and doesn't look right on computers.

Ha. Well that explains why I can access it from my phone.

 

[tehzachatak]

Hope this works out well, I really do. I am skeptical. Last time a really awesome beer bar did this, it ruined (IMO) one of my favorite spots.

 

[Auror]

Hope this works out well, I really do. I am skeptical. Last time a really awesome beer bar did this, it ruined (IMO) one of my favorite spots.

Was that a bar turning into a brewpub kind of thing? Hobo's brewery is in Woburn, I believe, so might not be the same kind of thing.

 

[tehzachatak]

Was that a bar turning into a brewpub kind of thing? Hobo's brewery is in Woburn, I believe, so might not be the same kind of thing.

Yeah, Lions pride. But they'll still start putting their beer on tap at expense of others, etc...

 

[BostonHopHead1]

Went to Lion's Pride, now Ebenezer's and was really not impressed. Only a handful of mediocre beers on tap, food took 45 minutes to get the cheese board, and we ended up leaving after an hour and no entree. Hope they figure that **** out.

 

[tehzachatak]

Went to Lion's Pride, now Ebenezer's and was really not impressed. Only a handful of mediocre beers on tap, food took 45 minutes to get the cheese board, and we ended up leaving after an hour and no entree. Hope they figure that **** out.

Right? That used to be my favorite bar in the world. How times have changed... Chris needs to lay the smackdown on that place.

 

[bearsonacid1]

Is lord hobo going to brew some $4 pints of house beer to replace the cheap Haverhill tap they used to have? Sometimes I just want to crush beers there but not $10 glasses of Bink blonde

 

[BobCobb1]

Boston very fortunate to have Hobo in its vicinity, but always got a kick of their over the top antics on FB. They posted one time about this amazing, melt your face (paraphrasing) set of beers that just got tapped. Predictably, they don't post what they are. So, I go in...and it's like 4 Belgians or something I'd never heard of. They might've been good beers, but just something of a disconnect between the FB post and what was actually on. Then, when I commented to that effect, they asked if I was expecting unicorn piss or something. Good times.

 

[Aaron from the Wood]

Boston very fortunate to have Hobo in its vicinity, but always got a kick of their over the top antics on FB. They posted one time about this amazing, melt your face (paraphrasing) set of beers that just got tapped. Predictably, they don't post what they are. So, I go in...and it's like 4 Belgians or something I'd never heard of. They might've been good beers, but just something of a disconnect between the FB post and what was actually on. Then, when I commented to that effect, they asked if I was expecting unicorn piss or something. Good times.

I love the discussion that's happening on their Facebook page, BTW.

 

[pjl44]

I love the discussion that's happening on their Facebook page, BTW.

Wow. A few dudes have managed to achieve full rustle.

 

[tehzachatak]

I love the discussion that's happening on their Facebook page, BTW.

Hoo boy.

EDIT: I also am super amused by the fact nobody's called them out for occupying two of their limited tap handles with Devil Dancer and Bolt Cutter at the moment so they can be sure to get KBS next year.

 

[Apetaster]

Hoo boy.

EDIT: I also am super amused by the fact nobody's called them out for occupying two of their limited tap handles with Devil Dancer and Bolt Cutter at the moment so they can be sure to get KBS next year.

I'm curious about this - are they pouring Bolt Cutter now (and how will that help with KBS?) Thanks.

 

[JCastle1]

I'm curious about this - are they pouring Bolt Cutter now (and how will that help with KBS?) Thanks.

Pushing more Founders product will earn some points with the distributors in the future I'm guessing.

Also, Bolt Cutter is awful.

 

[tehzachatak]

I'm curious about this - are they pouring Bolt Cutter now (and how will that help with KBS?) Thanks.

What Jose said. Just an assumption on my part, of course. But I just find it a bit hypocritical to be all high and mighty about the beer they're pouring and then have those two (******* awful) beers occupying handles. Jimmies remain unrussled, tho.

 

[Apetaster]

Thanks guys. That makes sense (I didn't know if something more nefarious was going on.) This guy seems to be cut from the same cloth as the fat umlauts.

 

[BobCobb1]

What Jose said. Just an assumption on my part, of course. But I just find it a bit hypocritical to be all high and mighty about the beer they're pouring and then have those two (******* awful) beers occupying handles. Jimmies remain unrussled, tho.

They have had KBS the past several years, though that's not to say the distributor isn't requiring more Founders stuff each year in order to keep receiving it. But I would think that would be in the form of stuff like All Day IPA, Red's Rye, Pale Ale etc. and not Bolt Cutter which, while polarizing, is still a limited (and fairly highly rated) brew.

 

[Ataraxia1]

Bolt Cutter which, while polarizing, is still a limited (and fairly highly rated) brew.

Hah

amirite tehzachatak?

 

[tehzachatak]

Hah

amirite tehzachatak?

I mean, I guess he's right if you look at like aggregate BA ratings, but BA ratings (and for that matter, RB ratings, untappd ratings, etc.) are BS. but neither the time nor place for my rant about that...

 

[BobCobb1]

Hah

amirite tehzachatak?

I wasn't particularly fond of the one bottle I had awhile back. But if I had been at Hobo and seen it on tap, a feeling of "are you kidding me" or "awful" would likely have not crossed my mind. In fact, I probably would've ordered a glass to see how it's doing with some time.

 

[tehzachatak]

I wasn't particularly fond of the one bottle I had awhile back. But if I had been at Hobo and seen it on tap, a feeling of "are you kidding me" or "awful" would likely have not crossed my mind. In fact, I probably would've ordered a glass to see how it's doing with some time.

Yeah, fair enough. What, three out of the six of us at Hobo on Tuesday ordered one... so you make a fair point. But that's not really what I'm trying to say - I'm saying they're verbally jerking off about how much better it is that they have Thirez on the draft list over your classic Dupont somewhere else, etc., and then they have Bolt Cutter and Devil Dancer on. I find that kind of intellectually inconsistent. Not trying to make you agree with me, but do you see what I'm saying?

 

[BobCobb1]

Yeah, fair enough. What, three out of the six of us at Hobo on Tuesday ordered one... so you make a fair point. But that's not really what I'm trying to say - I'm saying they're verbally jerking off about how much better it is that they have Thirez on the draft list over your classic Dupont somewhere else, etc., and then they have Bolt Cutter and Devil Dancer on. I find that kind of intellectually inconsistent. Not trying to make you agree with me, but do you see what I'm saying?

Yeah, sorry got a bit sidetracked there. I see the point and more or less agree, which is why I began to ignore most of their posts in that vein.

They're clearly calling out Sunset, right?

 

[pjl44]

Yeah, sorry got a bit sidetracked there. I see the point and more or less agree, which is why I began to ignore most of their posts in that vein.

They're clearly calling out Sunset, right?

I don't think they're calling out anyone in particular. Just beating their own chest and talking ****.

 

[BobCobb1]

I don't think they're calling out anyone in particular. Just beating their own chest and talking ****.

Perhaps, but this is what made me think so:

"We are not speaking of the Publick Houses, Armsby Abbeys, Threepenny Tapeooms or Deep Ellums of the world. It's the in betweens. The bars that would boast hundreds of drafts on their menu only to deliver 170 of them all purchased by InBev to pour their select line of mediocre beers."

 

[Don2]

Perhaps, but this is what made me think so:

"We are not speaking of the Publick Houses, Armsby Abbeys, Threepenny Tapeooms or Deep Ellums of the world. It's the in betweens. The bars that would boast hundreds of drafts on their menu only to deliver 170 of them all purchased by InBev to pour their select line of mediocre beers."

Yard house came to mind as well. Not sure which one pours more BMC.

 

[bearsonacid1]

Perhaps, but this is what made me think so:

"We are not speaking of the Publick Houses, Armsby Abbeys, Threepenny Tapeooms or Deep Ellums of the world. It's the in betweens. The bars that would boast hundreds of drafts on their menu only to deliver 170 of them all purchased by InBev to pour their select line of mediocre beers."

Sounds more like the Tavern or other places that boast tap lists full of bro-craft. Sunset definitely gets more in depth than these places but the place is sort of like the ruins of a TGIFridays. If you aren't swinging from Bink's nuts like lord hobo they probably wouldn't consider you their "peer"

 

[pjl44]

Perhaps, but this is what made me think so:

"We are not speaking of the Publick Houses, Armsby Abbeys, Threepenny Tapeooms or Deep Ellums of the world. It's the in betweens. The bars that would boast hundreds of drafts on their menu only to deliver 170 of them all purchased by InBev to pour their select line of mediocre beers."

Yard house came to mind as well. Not sure which one pours more BMC.

Sounds more like the Tavern or other places that boast tap lists full of bro-craft. Sunset definitely gets more in depth than these places but the place is sort of like the ruins of a TGIFridays. If you aren't swinging from Bink's nuts like lord hobo they probably wouldn't consider you their "peer"

Yup and yup. You could add British Beer Company to that list. Whenever they go off like this, it's more about pumping up their friends than going after anyone specifically.

 

[sparged]

This Lord Hobo Brewery thing (I thought Daniel was going to call it Paragraph XI?) is going to be right next to my work, so I'm psyched on that... whatever it winds up being.

I think it's too early on to assume what the labor division (contract brews vs. brewpub brews) is going to be at this point though.

 

[housepants]

Finally got around to picking up some Publick House IPA from Trillium. Good, but probably the worst hoppy offering I've had from them. I like the resiny flavor, but it seems a bit sweeter than their other hoppy stuff.