Lord Hobo (2020)

I had a can of Baccarat at encore casino this past week. It was pretty good. Terrible value @$12 compared Night Shift Santilli cans ($9) or a free heineken draft ($1 tip) but what can you do. Id drink it again.

 

Concur, the taproom remake is really nice. A long way from when they opened with just some barrels and only free tasters. But it comes with a busy crowd scene now. Still this is my favorite spot when in Boston.

 

I think what they're doing at the moment is being the only brewery in the area.

Winter Hill is the closest brewery 8 miles away in Somerville, and Essex Brewing in Peabody is 15 miles away.

Which is odd because it was brewed specifically for the casino.

Were you gambling and they charge you for craft beers but not Heineken?

Really?

I've been to the "new" Lord Hobo tap room. I like it a lot, but what makes it your favorite spot in Boston?

Specifically regarding tap rooms, it's not all that unique compared to say, Nightshift's Everett location. And I still like the Everett location more too. More space, food trucks, pull down screens in each room, their coffee cart with their own roastery's coffee and desserts, Bone Up Brewing across the street and Short Path...etc. And I think Lovejoy is way better than either spot.

Just my opinion obviously, to each their own. But I was just curious.

 

What do you mean?

 

Agree that the beer prices have creeped up from the "semi-bargain" range to "Boston" level over the past year.

Nice place, still tons of seemingly similar IPA's and Pale Ales on tap. But IMO the food is not good and entirely overpriced.

 

Oh ok, that's what I figured. I wanted to clarify before responding to your previous post.

I think they could have left things as is and still got SOME traffic, but not nearly the kind of traffic they have now.

Even if you're the only game in town, you still need a proper tap room. And of course Lanigan is a good businessman, and probably realized how successful the current tap room model is, and upgraded it accordingly.

And you also make a really good point, if/when another tap room opens up nearby, they'll be able to remain competitive.

 

While gambling they were coming around with certain options. I was told anything outside of that would not be free. It was Bud light, Heiniken, a wine, water, and a few cocktails.

That's either the rule or I had a lazy cocktail waitress. Either way Heiniken is good for me.

 

Well then...just saw on facebook LH is about to expand their taproom from capacity of 180 to 500 with full kitchen. Have to think they needed some sort of improved parking plan to go with it, the few times I've been since the last expansion the parking has been sketchy.

 

I've seen one mention on this thread but...how's the food in Woburn? I have a double date planned at the choice of the other couple at Lord Hobo. Any dishes I should avoid or need to try?

 

I thought the food was pretty sub par but like they say in Wedding Crashers, its good pizza, bad pizza, doesnt matter its pizza baby

 

Fun fact, Lanigan, isn’t the actual C.E.O. He was voted out a few months prior. Even his distributor for the brand knew about it before he got the news. What you see now is just a face for the media.

 

You joined BA just to say that ? Kinda weak dude

 

You’re right. I’ve been trying to have the bravery in the last few months of exposing local brewers such as Lord hobo and others, that are connected to a particular distributor (who owns a portion of two local breweries that don’t sit right) that is ruining the culture here. But not everybody can be strong as Dann Paquette. Oh well.

 

Wow that’s crazy. Can you elaborate - where is here?

 

No need to be coy. Please share what you know. We enjoy melodrama but not suspense.

 

Define "strong", strong as in a drunken twitter rant that didn't necessarily call out anyone other than a few bars and shot his brand int he foot as his own distributor was guilty of it? I assume you are you talking about the pay to play stuff? I was there that night, left right before the tweets as I remember being chastised by Paquette and his wife about my brewery choices for an upcoming Extreme Beer Fest so I left. Not the way I wanted to kick my birthday off. Also, you posting anonymously and being vague doesn't help at all.

 

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought Lanigan said in one of his Tony Robbins talks or articles (yeah, the founder of Lord Hobo is a Tony Robbins acolyte) that he gave up day-to-day management of Lord Hobo after he sold a chunk to private equity? Wanted to focus on strategy, living his life, hanging with other successful people, etc.