May I use this moment to RECOMMEND the Brewery Tour at the Sam Adams Brewery in Jamaica Plain. Now, I had been a Boston Resident for most of my 65 years, and that area of Jamaica Plain was a real mess when I was growing up. It got worse when hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed by Eminent Domain in order to build the I95 Extension that never happened. After looking like post-war Dresden for a number of years, the devastated community began to struggle back to its feet. The Founders of The Sam Adams Brewery took over a small abandoned building and began to brew a craft beer, long before it was in style.
Now the community is blossoming, and some of that prosperity can be directly attributed to The Sam Adams Brewery. The Label has been purchased by a big beer company, but the original brewery in Jamaica Plain still designs and makes the beer.
The tour, which costs a whoppin’ $2.00, takes you through the process, tasting and sampling along the way, and then ends up in a beer hall where you are guided through several tastings and get to keep your glass.
Exit through the Gift Shoppe (of course) and back into the Boston Sunshine.
It used to be a “dangerous” area, but now I feel perfectly safe there.
The town of Somerville (known locally as SLUMerville) could use a Sam Adams Brewery to perk it up.
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I concur, and might I suggest that the Sam Adams brewery is among the TOP tourist spots in the Boston Area (kinda like the Guinness factory in Dublin Ir).
Around here, that major won’t put one dent in the sales; it’s the brew of choice throughout New England.
I bet a six pack that Major will be downing a Sammy before the end of the first Pat’s game. or the last our of the ALCS
My parents grew up mostly in JP, and my older brother told me stories about the old Haffenreffer Brewery as some sort of a hangout. I was too young to recall the area attractions except for perhaps the Children’s Museum which was once not far.
My Dad was evicted from his apartment because of the demolitions along Columbus Avenue, and He had to move some distance away from his boyhood Chums.