Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project

Client Brewer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2008

Closed in 2015

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Cambridge, MA, United States
Description
Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project began on a shoestring budget in 2008. We exist to allow 20 year professional brewer Dann Paquette to make an honest living while giving his imagination free reign. We brew our beers in other people's breweries because we can't afford our own. We enjoy the up-at-dawn lifestyle and the freedom to brew beers of our own imagining. We brew all our beers ourselves: Dann brews and formulates, Martha mills in. We dream up our beers together, inspired by Europe, by history, and by BEER and all it can be. We are based in Somerville, but brew mostly in Westport, MA, hence the early mornings. Cheers!

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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at the Other side. Pours deep copper-tinged amber into a snifter. Off-white head recedes leaving spot lacing to hug rim. Mild pine aromas. Thick sweet caramel upfront turning to an oaky hot resin bittersweet lasting treacle and toffee finish.
Tried from Draft on 02 Dec 2010 at 15:43

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
A hazed amber saison with a thick receeding off white head, creamy and translucent. In aroma, pleasant herbaceous hops with light catnip, coriander, spices. In mouth, a creamy smooth saison with coriander, curacao, silky and well balanced, very old world indeed. Spot on. Bottled in May 2010.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2010 at 15:08

6.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
22oz bottle pours a hazy, nearly opaque dark yellow with a frothy white head. Nose is sweet, perfume, coriander, flowers. Flavor is sweet, malty, honey, hay, spices, flowers. Full bodied, very heavy carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Nov 2010 at 12:05

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
22 oz. bottle (from Gerry- thanks!), split with manuchampions, pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, smooth oats and cereal. Flavour of burnt, roasted malts, with the hops kicking in at the end. Smokey and bitter / hop finish. Excellent.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2010 at 02:21

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
On tap at the Stags Head. Pours a dark ruby coloration with frothy head. tastes of middle earth, plums and other dark fruits, bubblegum, nutty, hoppy withs some booziness on the end. pretty thing this little beer is.
Tried from Draft on 27 Oct 2010 at 17:02

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
bottle pours light yellow with a medium white head. Aroma is grassy, wet grass, hay, grassy hops, some wheat. Flavor is mildly sweet pale malts, some wheat character ends crisp and dry with hay and peppery hops.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Oct 2010 at 15:06

2.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
Rich barley malt aroma for a saison and rubber cement. Clear amber, thin head. Tastes like it smells with the barley morphing into rubber cement. Kind of off.
Tried on 21 Oct 2010 at 16:14

6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
Hazy gold, stark white head.Salty spicy hop nose.Light sweet start, spicy hop bitterness, slight fatty overtones. Long spicy hop end
Tried on 17 Oct 2010 at 20:42

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottle shared by Kyle, thanks! Poured a cloudy light brown with a gray head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma had notes of sweet grain with some spice and a hint of hops. Flavor was sweeter with lots of bread, cereal and grain with a bit of nuttiness.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Oct 2010 at 10:39

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle @ Papsø-Grand-Tasting, September 2010. Pours black with a small creamy head. Coffee roast. Dry with notes of chocolate and mocha. Dry and smooth. A nice stout.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Oct 2010 at 12:57