Well, it's been 20 years for Boston's oldest brewpub. On Friday May 8th and Saturday May 9th, 2009 Cambridge Brewing Company will celebrate their 20th Anniversary with an epic keg party. 31 kegs to be exact. And these kegs? Well they're full of some of the best craft beer that Boston (and Cambridge as well, obviously) has to offer! To help with crowds, it looks like they're turning the patio area outside the building into a Beer Garden, which should increase the capacity and ensure nobody is waiting too long for a beer.
Jeff from DrinkCraftBeer.com will be there on Friday evening so come on by and say hello!
Oh yeah, remember those kegs I was talking about? CBC's Head Brewer Will Meyers told us what will be in them:
INSIDE
1) Regatta Golden (Kolsch) 4.2%
2) Cambridge Amber 4.7%
3) Tall Tale Pale Ale 5.8%
4) Charles River Porter 6.0%
5) Spring Training IPA 6.3%
6) Blunderbuss Barleywine 11.0%
7) Reckoning (Anniversary Beer #1 -100% Brett beer, barrel fermented and aged) 8.6%
8) Benevolence (Anniversary Beer #2 -Barrel-aged beer with raisins, dates, cherries) 11.5%
9) Sgt. Pepper (Anniversary Beer #3 -Saison with four peppercorns) 6.0%
10) YouEnjoyMyStout 2006 (Barrel-aged Imperial Stout) 10.5%
11) Kriek du Cambridge 2009 (Imperial lambic-style ale with cherries, spontaneous fermentation) 9.5%
12) L'amour du Jour 2007 (Unhopped herbal beer with jasmine, lavender, orange blossom) 4.7%
13) Weekapaug Gruit (Unhopped herbal beer with traditional gruit spices) 6.0%
14) Tripel Threat 2008 (Abbey-style strong blonde ale) 9.5%
15) Arquebus 2007 (Experimental beer with local honey, wine grapes, chardonnay barrel-aged) 10.5%
16) Bannatyne's Scotch Ale 2007 (Cask-conditioned vintage strong Scotch ale) 9.0%
17) Tall Tale Pale Ale with Palisades dryhops (Cask-conditioned pale ale) 6.0%
18) CaCow! (Chocolate Milk Stout - Moo!) 6.4%
19) Red God 2008 ('Nuff said) 8.75%
20) Heather Ale 2008 (Herbal beer with handpicked fresh heather flowers, lavender, sweet gale) 5.0%
21) Audacity of Hops (Belgian I.P.A.) 8.5%
BEER GARDEN
1) Regatta Golden
2) Cambridge Amber
3) Tall Tale Pale Ale
4) Charles River Porter
5) Spring Training I.P.A.
22) Golden Ring 2008 (Belgian abbey pale ale) 6.0%
23) Bitchin' Bitter (English-style ale) 4.0%
24) Berliner Kendall (Berlin-style tart wheat ale) 4.2%
ON-DECK BEERS
25) Abbey Normal (Abbey-style dubbel ale) 8.6%
26) Never Mind The Bollekes (Belgian-style amber ale) 5.5%
27) Biere de Miel (Belgian-style saison with local honey) 8.8%
28) The Colonel (Barrel-aged 18th Century-style "vatted" sour porter) 6.5%
29) Bannatyne's Scotch Ale 2008 (strong Scotch ale) 9.0%
30) Resolution 2007 (Belgian brown ale with spices and gruit herbs) 7.75%
31) Spinal Pumpkin (Pumpkin barleywine with spices) 11.0%
So swing on by either Friday May 8th or Saturday May 9th, 2009 and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of a Boston/Cambridge Craft Beer fixture! It's been a good run so far, and this just begs the question... what are they going to do for their 21st next year?!?!