A Beer Works, apparently. Which was, of course, met with the requisite NIMBY treatment: http://www.wickedlocal.com/somervil...nts-slam-Beer-Works-proposal-for-Davis-Square
As a Davis resident, I'm happy to hear the NIMBY response. We need more retail spaces. Square is oversaturated with beer spots IMHO.
As a BA, another BBW doesn't get me excited. It's too bad there's a dearth of appealing alternatives...I think the options thus far have been either continued vacancy or relatively snooze-worthy stuff like World of Beer, BWW, BBW, etc.
The way I see it, the BBW empire isn't going to last forever, and when they start to fail, there might just be a walk-in ready brewpub for someone else to take over.
I wish local folks had protested 5 Horses and Foundry... That Social Security office brought some interesting customers to Davis Sq! They wanted checks, not organic produce
I actually like Beer Works. I believe the brewers get to brew some of their own recipes in addition to the company staples. I had a coffee bock at the Salem location that was pretty fantastic. That brew gives me hope that it wouldn't be just Back Bay IPA coming out of the place. I bet all these people against Beer Works going in sure would love their property value to keep climbing.
Could be worse, they could be building a 5 story low-income housing in your backyard, blocking sunlight, view of the boston fireworks, adding noise & air population as well as an increase in traffic & population. I wouldn't complain if I was in Davis Square as a property owner. I was walking to work one day, saw a single family for sale and said, I'll look it up, maybe I can afford it.. Nope.. 4x what I paid for a 4 floor single family next town over in Medford!
Haha, so true. I hate those two places. I'm hoping they'll eventually close because their prices are so outrageous. I heard a rumor that the empty space across from Painted Burro is either going to become a Petco or a Tavern on the Square. I hope it's the former. I went to the Tavern on the Square in Porter for football last Sunday. Atrocious. The Allagash White must have been on a dirty tap line, all "pints" were short poured in a false bottom shaker pint, and the Guinness was in one of those miniature flared tulip shaped pint glasses. Not the 20 oz. tulip pint, like a 12 oz., MAYBE 14 oz. glass. Any bar serving false bottom shaker pints immediately goes on my list of bars I don't return to (ahem, Foundry).
Been a while since I've been to Tavern Porter, but I've encountered dirty tap lines there more than once. Distinctly remember sending back a Troegs Hopback Amber and something 21st Amendment.
FWIW, the one in Central is fine. Tavern in Davis would be kinda nice actually. Doesn't Wormtown brew their house beer?
Yeah they brew a west coast IPA which is served colder than ice but still good. Not sure if they still do since I haven't gone to the one in central since April or may.
I suspect the only way residents in that part of town could negatively affect their property values would be by bringing in a rendering plant. And values would probably still climb if it were an *artisanal* rendering plant. That said, I'd have a hard time voting against a brewpub of any kind, be it new startup or BBW franchise. Beer doesn't have to be the very best if it's always available fresh.
