Hello! My name is Bob, and I am still in a great mood because of how the Super Bowl went (Go Birds!!)! To keep this giddy feeling going, I am writing the first Amory’s Tomb Brewing Newsletter of 2025! It’s been a couple of months, so let’s get caught up:
#MASSBEERWEEK Beer Garden Opening on Saturday, March 1st and March 8th from 12-6pm
Fire up the trash barrels, the Tomb is reopening!
Amory’s Tomb Beer Garden is reopening on Saturdays starting March 1st and will be open again on March 8th, both days from 12-6. Allen would only commit to those 2 days when I talked to him. But hey, Saturday the 15th is right before St. Patrick’s Day, and surely the Beer Garden will be open for that! Then it’s Spring, and they might as well start opening every Saturday!
Remember how things in the Beer Garden shut down last November and December? First the taps were turned off, then at some point Perico’s taco truck closed for the season. Somewhere in there, tragically, they even ran out of Underbergs. And eventually Amory’s Tomb closed for the season.
I’d expect that all to happen in reverse. Bottles-and-cans only at first, then sooner rather than later there will be taps in. At some point, the tacos will come back. One mystery is whether the Underbergs will return on March 1st or some later date!
I know what you are thinking. “Wait, Beer Garden??” Yes, Beer Garden. Maybe that isn’t ideal, but I’m ready! It’s above freezing again, and only going to get warmer in March. The snow is melting, and probably the only place outside that won’t totally be mud is the Beer Garden itself.
Our long (ok, 2 month) nightmare is over! It’s time to once again enjoy a farmhouse ale, porter or Man Bun Pilsner at the Tomb!
But if you need additional incentive to stop by, read the next item…
#MassBeerWeek Passport Program
Amory’s Tomb is participating in a passport program with 3 other local breweries - Dirigible Brewing, Rapscallion Brewery and True West Brewery for Mass Beer Week, which runs from March 1st through March 8th. Pick up your passport at one of the four breweries starting on March 1st, then collect stamps at all four breweries by March 8th to win a prize!
Four breweries in 8 days is totally do-able, especially since these 4 are in relatively close proximity to one another.
Here’s a tip for you, though. Amory’s Tomb is going to be the toughest of the 4 stamps to get because Allen and Rick are only going to open the Beer Garden on March 1st and 8th from 12-6pm. That’s a 12 hour window period in which to get the coveted AT stamp on your passport!
See? Subscribing to this newsletter isn’t just informative. It helps you win stuff!
RE: Spring Beer Garden Hours
A note from the editor’s here - We are watching the weather and working with our food partners to establish a Spring opening schedule. We’ll start Saturdays 12-6 and expand as the weather allows.
New Amory’s Tomb Beer Exclusively on Tap at All Evviva Trattoria locations!
Evviva Trattoria describes itself as featuring “modern Italian food served in a comfortable and casual atmosphere.” There are multiple locations, including Maynard in the Market Basket Plaza (I am sure this plaza goes by some other name but, come on, we all know it as the Market Basket Plaza). I’ve been there a few times and the food is really good!
Evviva Trattoria's tagline is “Italian Inspired, Locally Made”, but until now the “locally made” part didn’t apply to the Italian Pilsner it offered on draught (you can probably guess which one it was). Well that inconsistency has been fixed! Evviva Trattoria has partnered with our very own Amory’s Tomb Brewing Company to create a locally-made Italian-style Pilsner, Evviva Pils!
Some of you may recall drinking an Amory’s Tomb Italian pilsner called Midsummer Bitcrusher. Midsummer Bitcrusher, a fine beer in its own right at 4.3%, was brewed for drinking in the Beer Garden in the hot summer - it’s right there in the name!
Evviva Pils, on the other hand, is a tad stronger at 4.7% and is a pilsner brewed to be light and crisp while still holding up to the great food at Evviva Trattoria. I can personally attest to the fact that Evviva Pils pairs very well with the Bolognese!
You won’t find this one in the Beer Garden, though. Evviva Pils is available exclusively at all Evviva Trattoria locations, even the ones in New Hampshire.
That’s right! With Evviva Pils, Amory’s Tomb has officially crossed into New Hampshire and has already begun sending out some favorite offerings to accounts across the granite state. Live Free and Drink Great Beer!
Taproom Update
Last week, Allen caught me pressing my nose against the glass of the taproom to see what things looked like. You might think his response would have been to burst out the front door and start throwing empty beer bottles at me while shouting “Gitouttahere!” That isn’t what happened at all! Allen was kind enough let me come in and have a look around.
The place is really coming together! No it isn’t ready yet, but it is very easy now to envision what it will look like when it is ready. The bar itself looks terrific. Some of the new furniture has been delivered. The sound system has been installed.
Right now, they’re working on some of the finishes. For example, the walls will have sconces on them. Sconces! Classy! Remember the old place? I think the only thing on the wall there was a ladder!
One of the bigger challenges left is that work needs to be done on the sprinkler system, and in contrast to many of the other remaining tasks the sprinkler system is something that requires a third-party contractor. Some of the other remaining items really cannot be done until the sprinkler system is handled, so the timing for an opening is a bit uncertain at this point. More to come…
Allen and Rick Kara Bought Us a Foeder!
In addition to working on the taproom over the winter, the brewery acquired a 10bbl American White Oak foeder from Caius Farm Brewery thanks to the help of our favorite taproom hero, Kara!
Some of the best Amory’s Tomb beers have been barrel-aged farmhouse ales, and, at the risk of offending foeder makers everywhere, I think of a foeder as essentially a massive level up from regular barrels. The foeder is in storage right now, but eventually it will allow Allen and Rick to produce even more flavorful farmhouse in the future! As you may know Kara has a bit of a soft spot for Saison Classic, so I would expect the first beers to come out of this magic wooden vessel to be based off of that recipe.
And I learned something while talking about the foeder with Allen. I always thought the first syllable of foeder was pronounced “foad”. Allen corrected me that it is actually pronounced “food”.
So if you are in the Beer Garden and want to sound like you know what you are talking about when it comes to brewing beer, be sure to congratulate Allen and Rick on their new “fooder” not their new “foader”!
That’s about it. Allen and Rick also have a bunch of beer sitting in tanks right now. The first new brew we’re likely to see is a special porter to be released in April. More on that one in next month’s newsletter.
For now, it’s time to celebrate the end of winter and the reopening of the Beer Garden! See you there! I’ll be in line to get my passport stamped!
