Favorite Watering Hole?

Buskers in Newport, probably. Great drip of Guiness.

Medusa Brewing.

Jack's Abby.

 

Locally, Cask and Vine. Good food and beer list. Granfanally's. Townie bar atmosphere with a nice beer list and the best Pizza in the area.

 

The Captain Kidd in Woods Hole.

 

Ciro’s Tavern in Woonsocket R.I.
I don’t get out as much as I used to, this is a fine place to have some beers.
Lots of history, an old world look to the inside plus a modern outside area.
Plenty of eye candy, decent food and prices plus my favorite local IPA on tap, Be Hoppy by Wormtown.

 

The Black Birch in Kittery, ME. All day, everyday if I could.

 

Love Eli's - I went to Wesleyan in the early 00's and that place was ahead of it's time

For me - near home probably Stars in Hingham, near the office definitely Stoddard's

 

I'll be lazy and say Conley's in Watertown, MA. I can walk there in 5 minutes and they almost always have Fiddlehead IPA on tap, and usually have Second Fiddle as well.

 

Gulu Gulu in Salem, MA -- fantastic tap list and bottle selection, yummy food, and fun atmosphere.

 

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-Depot St Tavern (Milford,MA)-My go to place for food and beer.
-Dive Bar (Worcester,MA) If I want to go into beer nerd mode.
-The Pint (Worcester,MA) Underrated beer bar with excellent choices and plenty of eye candy on weekends.

 

Publick House in Brookline, Lower Depths after a Sox game to wait out the crowd on the T, and Millwrights in Simsbury, CT

 

Three Penny Taproom is my favorite beer bar by far. They have the most well thought-out draft list. Diverse styles, the occasional vintage surprise, and tons of Hill Farmstead. The food is incredible as well.

 

Blackback Pub Waterbury Vermont taplist is crazy good and the food to match.

 

Fogg Bar Birras and Cheese -- Madrid. Yeah wrong continent/forum, but it's where I live now. And, hey, if any of you head to Madrid, go there, and if I'm there too, and you happen to engage me in conversation, and the conversation is mostly fun, sometimes in that situation I offer a beer. Other times I offer a wine, but that's mostly when the other person wants wine and not beer. Mostly.

 

- Publick House, Brookline, MA -- I've had innumerable excellent beers here, watching the Green Line go up and down the slope outside
- Cambridge Brewing Company, Cambridge, MA -- my all-time favorite for excellent beer, food and patio
- Eli Cannon's, Middletown, CT -- the only thing better than the whacky interior is the "beach" out back
- Strange Brew Tavern, Manchester, NH -- my favorite old haunt whenever I'm back home
- Novare Res and Great Lost Bear, Portland, ME -- I love visiting both of these places when in Portland -- good, but different beer and spaces at both
- Brewer's Fork, Boston, MA -- excellent pizza and beer to match
- Schilling, Littleton, NH -- world-class non-IPA beer in a 200-year-old grist mill
- Black Birch, Kittery, ME -- I love sitting at the bar with a good record playing while drinking a fine beer
- Toad, Cambridge, MA -- best place for local music and beer
- Atwood's, Cambridge, MA -- there was a time when I could put up with hangovers every Tuesday that I'd be there for bluegrass every Monday night
- Ebenezer's, Lovell, ME -- nothing like an excellent Belgian beer sitting out on the porch with Fats Waller playing
- American Flatbread / Zero Gravity, Burlington, VT -- again good beer, pizza and a nice vibe

 

Interesting, I wouldn't think I'd see the upscale Millwright's listed as a "watering hole". I assume you're talking about the Tavern downstairs. What knocks it out of "favorite" contention for me is the limited tap selection and the "cozy" atmosphere often means crowded and a homogeneous crowd at that. But yeah, real nice place to hang out when you can find a place to sit.

I really can't think of a favorite on this side of the mountain, we usually end up at Red Stone Pub by default but the lack of food would knock it out of this race.

 

For me it is Blackback in Waterbury. I've been there solo, with friends, with wife, with brother-in-law, with kids ... middle of afternoon, pre-dinner, dinner, late night ... and every time, I think to myself how much I enjoyed it. (This is nothing against the food and the expansion) but I actually liked it a little better when it was smaller and didn't have as robust a menu. You really felt like you were at home (with a much better tap list). Still is great now, though. I was there two weeks ago and was taken back to remembering how much I like visiting.

 

Used to be Redbones, but the tap list has gone down hill over the years.

Olde Magoun's in Somerville is the one for me. Been there three times in the last three weeks...killer place for Oktoberfest beer.

Awesome food, good tap list with the occasional gem but also solid imports, and probably the best place to watch sports in the Somerville/Cambridge area.

 

Conley's does have a decent tap list with good prices too. My issue with them (esp within the past year) is that they don't seem to clean their lines often enough and only a few bartenders know how to pour a proper pint with a decent head. It's about a 6 minute walk for me...