An Appreciation For Great Beer, and ‘Dirty Water’ People always look forward to unwinding over locally brewed craft beers on the weekend at Captain Lawrence, but after last week’s horrors, visitors seemed a little more eager to kick back and relax with friends. And while it...
Token of Appreciation A quick skip through world history suggests that most every revolution began because someone had to start paying for something that they used to get for free. So when Captain Lawrence Brewing introduced a new policy earlier this month--$5 for 5 sample...
In a ‘Sour’ Mood The announcement was a quiet one, just four quick lines. But it sparked an outsize amount of activity. The post hit Facebook at 1 p.m.: The Rosso E Marrone, Captain Lawrence’s brown ale fermented with grapes and aged in oak barrels, was available...
Marching Into April The calendar has been insisting it’s spring, and finally there was another indicator of the season on the last weekend of March—people hanging out on the back patio at Captain Lawrence Brewing, sampling craft beer, tossing the bocce balls, and thinking about the...
The Captain’s Log The waiting, as Tom Petty once said, is the hardest part, while some other big thinker famously noted that patience a virtue. So you’ll need a bit of patience as you wait for the compelling collaboration between Captain Lawrence and the Still the...
Hot Rods & Cold Brews Captain Lawrence has grown at breakneck pace, so it’s only fitting that the brewery’s logo appears on a race car careening around courses up and down the East Coast these days. While Captain Lawrence also sponsors lacrosse teams (see Notes From...
Putting the Sun in Sunday You never really need a reason to pop into Captain Lawrence Brewing, other than the tasty craft beer flowing freely, but Sunday did offer a few bonus ones. For starters, the 50 degree temps were making that surprise snowstorm a distant...
Taking Back Sunday It was a historic day in the Captain Lawrence tasting room—the first Sunday in brewery history in which the tasting room is open for business. In other words, whatever your Sunday routine involves--be it sleeping in, brunch, worship, cleaning, lamenting the pending work...
The Captain’s Log What happens when extreme weather meets extreme beer? Sadly, the weather wins. At least it did this time. Captain Lawrence had planned to make the schlep up I-95 to be represented at the Extreme Beer Fest in Boston this past weekend, but 2 1/2 feet...
Hardly Raven About the Big Game A little over 24 hours before kickoff in New Orleans, the Captain Lawrence tasting room was as jammed as Bourbon Street—the lines for growlers more typically seen on the eve of Thanksgiving and holiday weekends. Interest in filling jugs...