Feb 20
We successfully packaged our Barley Wine yesterday (2/19) and will begin delivering it to customers this coming week. It will be available in 22 ounce bottles and will be sold through select retail locations and at the brewery. Mayflower Barley Wine Style Ale is the second release of our Cooper’s Series of limited-batch, wood-aged beers. Brewed with a single variety of heirloom barley malt - Maris Otter - and aged in oak bourbon barrels for 10 months, it is a rich and complex brew that will warm your soul. Cheers!
Feb 12
Today we are racking the barley wine out of our bourbon barrels into a bright beer tank. The beer has been conditioning in these barrels since last April, picking up oak and bourbon flavors and mellowing along the way. The next step is to package in bottles - we’ll let you know when they are ready. Cheers!
Feb 04
Behold our new bottle caps! In an effort to better distinguish our bottled beers from one another, we have upgraded our packaging with a new and distinct bottle cap for each style of beer. All of our caps still share our signature Mayflower ship icon, but the color of each style now matches the color of its 6-pack carton. Besides improving the overall look of each beer, the new caps should help you choose the right one when you’re reaching into your cooler full of Mayflower beer! Below are photos of the four new colors and our first run of Mayflower Pale Ale with the new caps. Cheers and we hope you enjoy the new look!
Jan 12
Happy New Year to all from everyone at Mayflower Brewing Company! We have big plans for the new year and have added a second truck to expand our distribution territory north and west of Boston. If you live in Middlesex or Essex county, ask your local bar or package store for us. With the new truck, we will also now be more consistent with our still-limited deliveries to Worcester and Amherst/Northampton. For your entertainment pleasure, check out this video of the graphics going on our new truck - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kryxB2DkmNo
Cheers!
Dec 14
Given the timing of Christmas and New Year’s this year, we are changing our retail/tasting room hours for the weeks of December 20 and December 27. We will be open on Wednesday (12/23 and 12/30) afternoon of each week from 4:30PM to 6:30PM and will be closed on Thursday (12/24 and 12/31) and Friday (12/25 and 1/1).
Come by and grab some beer for the holidays!
Cheers and happy holidays from all of us at Mayflower Brewing Company!
Oct 22
We packaged our Thanksgiving Ale this week and will soon be delivering it to the market. Unique to Mayflower Brewing Company, our Thanksgiving Ale is a descendant’s take on an English Old Ale. Brewed with a rich array of barley and rye malts and aged on toasted American oak, this full-bodied brew is the perfect beverage for America’s hometown holiday.
As a special surprise this year, we have packaged about half of the beer in 22 ounce bottles. This release is the first of our new “Cooper’s Series”, a line of limited release beers that we will be offering from time to time during the year.
Look for it soon in your local bar, restaurant and package store.
Cheers! — Drew
Oct 15
A quick heads up — British Beer Company and Mayflower Brewing Company have changed the date for the upcomig “Save the Celebration” benefit from this coming Sunday Oct. 18 to the following Sunday Oct. 25 due to expected bad weather.
Hope to see you there!
Oct 02
We will be pouring beer at four great events on Saturday:
– HarvestFest in Somerville — http://www.artsatthearmory.org/
– BBC Walpole — http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122855738890&ref=share
– South Coast Oktoberfest in New Bedford — http://www.myspace.com/nboktoberfest
– American Lung Association Autumn Escape Bike Trek in Brewster — http://www.mrsnv.com/evt/home.jsp?id=2210#aebt
Hope to see you at one of them! Cheers
Oct 01
We would like to thank our friends at French Oak Media in Brookline for putting together a terrific virtual tour of the brewery. Here’s a link to the video at their web site. http://www.frenchoakmedia.com/2009/09/mayflower-beerfour-centuries-in-making.html
Cheers! — Drew
Sep 26
OK, so maybe the Boston Globe is a bit geographically challenged (Mayflower Brewing Company in Portsmouth, NH?), but we appreciate their support anyway. Check out the comments about our IPA in this Sunday’s Boston Globe Magazine. — Drew
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/09/27/better_beer/
