Western Mass ideas for a Sunday

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  1. mrmattosgood

    mrmattosgood Maven (1,301) Nov 6, 2010 Canada (BC)

    Have a pretty nice early afternoon window for some craft beer on Sunday. Maybe a brewery, maybe a bottle shop, maybe both.

    I will be driving west to east, so any place along the way from Springfield to northeast Mass will do. Honest Weight? Stone Cow? My preference would be for a place I (a) can't get out east and (b) is available in a non-growler format. That said, I can do growlers. Just my preference for cans/bottles.
     
    #1 mrmattosgood, Nov 3, 2016
  2. Gastone

    Gastone Crusader (490) Feb 27, 2006 Massachusetts

    Honest Weight is open 12-5 but samples, pints and growlers (which you would need to purchase) only. Check their website Thursday for a tap list. I go here or Brick and Feather (not open Sunday) most weekends.
     
    #2 Gastone, Nov 3, 2016
  3. bittym87

    bittym87 Initiate (0) Mar 1, 2011 Massachusetts

    If you are thinking Honest Weight and your trip takes you up past Amherst, Amherst Brewing Co. has been doing some really solid stuff lately with Jess and Juliette and their wet-hopped variants, as well as their coconut porter. Not sure what's on this week but they have cans in 4-packs to go. It also doesn't hurt that they are now cohabitants of the restaurant with the best boneless chicken wings on the planet. (/biased UMass alum)

    (edited - just saw B&F is closed Sundays, too bad)
     
    #3 bittym87, Nov 3, 2016
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  4. RedEcho

    RedEcho Devotee (394) Oct 23, 2012 Massachusetts

    B & F only has two beers on tap at a time at their shop. If you're heading that way at some point I'd suggest calling ahead to see what's on draft.

    Amherst Brewing has an interesting "pay by the ounce" sample station. LOTS of beer on tap but you hitch your credit card to a machine and watch your balance increase. I don't remember it being super expensive, though. Second on good wings there, it's the same company as "Wings over (Somerville/Lowell/etc)" if you've ever had theirs - or if you want to try the wings in eastern MA.
     
    #4 RedEcho, Nov 3, 2016
  5. jomobono

    jomobono Savant (1,148) Mar 12, 2012 Massachusetts

    Check out Five Eyed Fox in Turner Falls if you in the area, Brick and Feather is generally always on-tap.
     
    #5 jomobono, Nov 4, 2016
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  6. thatbentleyguy

    thatbentleyguy Initiate (0) Jun 11, 2012 Massachusetts

    Iron Duke in Ludlow is open Sundays 12-4. Not all styles are hits IMO, but worth sampling your way through.

    Five Eyed Fox tends to have Honest Weight and Brick and Feather virtually always on tap and other good selections of course. Honest Weight is worth a stop this weekend. Their Everything is Everything imperial pale is on and it's an incredible beer.
     
    #6 thatbentleyguy, Nov 6, 2016
  7. papposilenus

    papposilenus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,232) Jun 21, 2014 New Hampshire
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    I was there yesterday and they had three on, In Absentia, Positively 11th Street and Laughter and Forgetting.

    The website carries a Twitter link which shows what's pouring... http://brickandfeatherbrewery.com/tasting-room.html

    But, yes, they're closed Sunday and, yes, it's too late to help the OP anyway.
     
    #7 papposilenus, Nov 6, 2016
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