Lord Hobo Reopening

Yeah, to be clear, I wasn't implying that the list was barren. There were still gems. And this is not to me personally but from looking around the bar when I was there, it felt at times like an extension of the tap room with LHBC taking 20% of the taps and flights and et al offered.

And if I wanted to be at a taproom, I'd head down the street to CBC.

 

I did enjoy the mix of Kendall folks(I took once worked in tech there) bike messengers, punks, Indy, hardcore kids, beer folk, weirdos, hobos and general sludge occasionally. I’d say it was less hipster and a more dangerous or unpredictable group. As I was part of and around them 90’s and later after 21 in the bars. The hipster term and being a “beer hipster” thing came after heady blew up. Or in much greater numbers. Though they did travel single file, to hide their numbers

 

LOL

 

I’m looking at it from the context of tap list first, food second. So I realize food may have more weight for some people.

So for me, Lord Hobo’s tap list is likely the “worst” out of all the bars I mentioned. It’s still good, no problem grabbing a beer there. I’ve admittedly barely eaten there though, so there’s that too.

 

I agree with that assessment. The other places have definitely surpassed Hobo (Publick House might've always been ahead).

I think convenience usually wins out for me. I could walk to Hobo. I can't say that about the others. I don't have platinum status with Uber like you, either.

 

Early 2000’s I’d put sunset up there against them as well. And the argument about the college kids only goes so far. We always went there after 8 and normally by 8:30 they were moving on to white horse or the sorts. We’d have the small side bar to ourselves the rest of the night. And I really did enjoy the selection of Belgium, seasonal, smoked beers, pallet wrecker ipa’s and twice, free pours of utopias. Which yes, was way overpriced if you paid. I really enjoyed my times there. Many birthdays in my 20’s. Never really went post hazy ipa craze. Which makes me happy. Marc was always kind to us.

 

Aw man, bringing up the old Sunset hit me right in the feels.

Sunset was the start of my beer journey. Got exposed to Pretty Things for the first time when Eleni (? Crap I can't remember her name for sure--greek bartender there in the 2000s) brought us a sample. Ordering flights back then was such a good way to try new beers in a budget. FBS, BCBS, Maine peeper. We became regulars with her for brunch or early dinners on the weekend, then the wife had to switch to soda for a while until my first son was born.

It was the first restaurant he went to, sleeping through brunch at four weeks. We had to switch to getting a table to accommodate the high chair which is when we made friends with Shannon. She loved seeing him, used to take him up to pick songs on the jukebox from her tips once he started to talk. She even had a Christmas present for him one year, wrapped matchbox motorcycles.

It was sad when the service started to decline. I remember when a new manager denied our request to sit in Shannon's section, then Shannon left to become a cop. And Brian, who used to take care of me when I'd escape work for a weekday lunch, moved away, and the service started to slide further. The beer flight prices went up and up while the selection became IPA after IPA.

Somewhere I have a pic of the chair with my mispelt name from filling up the loyalty card multiple times...

 

Yes!!!! I absolutely remember her! Elani I thought it was! Bought me a few bday beers ha. She was always so sweet and I can picture her voice and accent right now!

I know I have some old menus and one scanned!

 

Ha yeah I Uber everywhere, so distance doesn’t really matter to me (up to a point).

To be fair, I do walk a lot. ~10 miles a day on average and it’s not uncommon for me to walk 15 miles in a day.

I walked to Lu Lu’s one Sunday morning during the pandemic which is about a 10 mile round trip walk.

 

It will be interesting to see what the tap list looks like now that the Shelton Bros imports are largely out of the equation.

 

According to Lord Hobo's social media, it will be 14 Lord Hobo beers and 10 other rotating beer lines. Seems like a big departure from 12+ months ago.

 

Wow, had heard a veiled reference to something like this from a former employee, but this is very disappointing.

 

They kinda had to do this, right?

 

Was it really necessary with the brewery in Woburn and the new beer garden in the Seaport? It's gone from a beer bar with a diverse tap list and a few LH taps to a LH beer bar with a few guest taps. The latter is much less of a draw in my opinion, all else equal.

 

Beer garden was our let down of 2020. I don’t mind the beers and selection in Woburn. And that space for Woburn is fucking awesome. But the seaport was just a corner looking at new giant ass building they didn’t expect being built and large porta potties in the middle.

Saddens me that OG Hobos tap list may be the sad of 2021

 

I thought they said they had seating for like 500+ at the seaport? Figured it would be huge. Maybe Lanigan can park one of his AMGs in front to attract more people

 

"Founded in 2015, Lord Hobo is one of the fastest growing breweries in the United States. We distribute in 15 states and will brew 50,000bbls in 2020. Our brewery and taproom is located in Woburn, MA and is expanding in May, 2020 to 500 person capacity."

 

If out the suburbs absolutely no reason to head to this bar rather than go to the the brewpub in Woburn which has every LH beer available. But - deal with the cafeteria-style pizza at that joint.

 

Right, but the seaport patio alone was supposed to have seating for like 240 people last fall when it opened. I assumed that was a Covid adjusted number too. I haven’t been and will never go, my point was that Lanigan described it as the “taj mahal” with 23k sq ft but here it was described as just a corner jammed between buildings.

 

Four of us said “this is it, wtf”

The aesthetic and set up of trillium fort point is better and that’s literally jammed in between buildings