Tree House (2025)

For sure. Tree House pricing isn’t bad. $9 a draft is definitely a fairly common thing in MA, especially near the Boston area. In fact I’m seeing $10-11 more common lately.

 

Anyone try the new stout yet?

 

10th Anniversary and King Machine are 100% Fantastic!

 

Chatted up I guy from Clifton Park yesterday: said that Saratoga had been a mob scene, parking lot at capacity and a line of cars down rte 50, fyi

 

I gotta say Pizzeria Pils is really fucking good. I like it way more than Trail, at least as far as their German lagers go.

 

At this point Nate and L could just do the Locust Reign approach and be approved to build, build, open, collect insane juice box sales and if it starts to die down. Just move to the next of the 50. And reign on the local brew scene parade.

 

I'm staying at the hotel directly next door and have been there since before they opened the taproom. Since opening the taproom, the first Saturday was the only day I have observed cars lined up on RTE 50. With exception to this one day, the parking lot has been mostly full to full, but no cars lined up off premises.

 

I got a big ol' stein sidepull of this from Deerfield a few years ago and I still remember how much I loved it.

 

I cannot wait for beach season and flipping on my little can lager switch. I live off of those on the weekend and vacations. The dry hopped versions add so much variety too but aren’t taxing for a few days on the beach.

Not that I don’t drink them through the year. But my purchase habits certainly shift.

 

Curiosity 7 tastes like the oldschool profile I think we're all looking for. Worth getting

 

Indeed, I posted a pic and write up as well in the New England beer thread. Amazing stuff

 

I bought a 4 pack earlier in the week. The can I had was slightly under carbonated, but otherwise really good and true to the American stout style. Medium body, appropriate citrus/pine hop profile, earthy dark chocolate malt profile. Nowhere close to a black ipa in terms of hoppiness. Not too bitter or sweet for the style. I find their typical stout offering way too sweet or strong so hoping they keep this in the rotation.

 

AB has finally ceased brewing operations at the Portsmouth, NH old Redhook/Cisco brewing space. This would literally be turnkey for Treehouse with tons of parking, space, outdoor space, a city 5 minutes away, right off two highways, and access to ME, NH, MA all within 10 minutes. The part about keeping the “canning line” going there means nothing if you’re wasting space. Money will talk.

100% chance @DigitalNate will be looking into this. Even if just looking at the details.

We could ride our bikes to it or even walk. It would be epic.

Now, would the wack ass NH alcohol laws prevent them from wanting too….?

 

I wonder if that would negatively affect breweries in Portsmouth.

For example, if Tree House was in Portland, why would tourists go to Bissell, Goodfire, Lone Pine, Belleflower…

 

Spoken as a tourist with a brother-in-law who lives in Portland, it wouldn't affect my behavior. Maybe Portland gets a lot of tourists who fly in but I'd bet more than 50% are driving from somewhere in New England or New York (I'm sure their chamber of commerce has a stat to prove me wrong ) and those people would in large part have to drive by some other TH location to get to Portland (personally, I drive by 2 of them and I make a stop at one on the way home whenever I make the drive). I'd keep my Portland visit to Portland breweries (except the obligatory check of the theoretical TH space once it opens).

Maybe I'm a small sample ...

 

It would possibly, but, we really only have 3 left in Portsmouth. They are also small enough and pull in the local crowd. They also don’t do a ton of business comparatively and most likely could ride it out.

But, it isn’t Nate’s obligation to worry about that. Tough call for sure but it’s a small population to consider.

Honestly, Portsmouth really isn’t a beer destination these days.

There is however a market in this whole area who travel to TH. Also, every person heading north from May-October would be stopping there on weekends. Also they would be slammed daily from late June - early September, when our true tourist season kicks in.

Also, that statement essentially mean that treehouse makes better products than all of them. So it seems they earned it.

 

TH creeping ever closer to me....

 

I'm pretty much an hour and fifteen minutes / an hour and a half from three different Tree House locations, it's frustrating. They just need to do the right thing and buy Tanglewood so I can have my Tree House Berkshires outpost.

 

Not necessarily. Tree House also offers incredible tap room spaces that are part of it. For example, Bissell is typically slammed on weekends while Sacred Profane is less busy. But I’m not going to suggest Bissell makes better beer than Sacred Profane. Plus, their Biddeford location does quite well.

But Bissell has a great restaurant, larger space, and more diverse tap list. With the latter Tree House crushes just about everyone.

And while it’s not their obligation to not move into a space, you can also help other breweries in the area. Backbeat in Beverly helped Gentile next door set up their cask engines, and they collaborate regularly with beer crawls in that area to promote the others close by.

I fully realize Tree House’s tap rooms aren’t terribly close to other breweries. But I would like to see some type of assistance or collaboration given the tight margins for breweries in the current landscape. Heck, even Sam Adams helped the little guys years ago during the hop shortage.