Cambridge Brewing Company
Brewpub
in Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
United States 🇺🇸
Owned by
Castle Island Brewing Company
Associated Venue: Cambridge Brewing Company
- Out of business
Established in 1989
1 Kendall Square brewpub's last day of service was December 20, 2024, as Phil Bannatyne (owner) retired. Brand was sold to Castle Island Brewing (Norwood, MA) who will produce the brewery's more iconic beers.
yespr (55501) reviewed Working Class Hero from Cambridge Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From tap. Pours hazy yellow. Small white head. Aroma is mild estery and citrusy. Grassy. Bitter and grassy. Slight herbal hoppy finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange, small white head. Aroma is grapefruity, peach hoppy. Sweet, solid hops fruity. Bitter. Crisp hoppy. Bitter and mellow fruity. Lingering hops fruity. Mellow and fruity finish.
yespr (55501) reviewed Bullpen Hijinks from Cambridge Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From tap. Pours clear and golden orange. Small white head. Aroma is floral. Toasted. Slight soapy. Medium dry, slight sourish. Fruity to floral, soapy finish.
yespr (55501) reviewed Bright Size Life from Cambridge Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
From tap. Pours hazy deep amber. Small off white head. Aroma is fruity, slight wooden, sourish. Mellow, citric. Smooth fruity. Lingering fruity and slight sourish. Crisp fruity finish.
yespr (55501) reviewed The Grateful Bread from Cambridge Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange. Small white head. Aroma is fruity, light sourish. Mellow, slight fruity. Sourish. Mixed sweet, fruity and slight sourish finish.
yespr (55501) reviewed Miles From Nowhere from Cambridge Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From tap. Pours cloudy orange, small white head. Aroma is grainy and slight sourish. Estery. Medium dry, slight fruity. Medium dry and slight bitter finish.
yespr (55501) reviewed Dollars & Cents from Cambridge Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From tap. Pours murky orange. Small white head. Aroma is peach and grapefruity hoppy. Solid hoppy, peach juicy. Bitter, crisp hoppy. Mellow and lingering fruity finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange, small white head. Aroma is wineius, fruity. Funky, sour, fruity. Crisp fruity and sour. Slight sweetness. Funky and fruity finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at City Tap Room Boston. Cloudy pale gold colour lasting white head. Good citrus fruit juice flavour.. Decent carbonation in mouth. I mean it just tastes of lemon and orange and grapefruit and is lovely. Light bitterness on the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught at the brewery, 1/19/18.
Dark copper-chestnut, good clarity and a small, dark beige head that recedes quickly to nothing.
Malty and oaky with not too much residual honey character though certainly lightly spicy phenols and other fermentation biproducts. Sourdough and some light cereal-like grain character perk up on the finish, adding a bit of an acidic character as red fruit esters maybe stem from the malt? Not massively aromatic but rich and clean with little/no alcohol.
In the mouth it's quite toasty with tons of honey-drenched sourdough, vanilla and other oak notes. Pretty nice attenuation, certainly malty enough and soft with fruity melanoidins and moderate residual honey sweetness. What it is severely lacking is carbonation. Not that it's flat, but still much too loose creating wateriness and a somewhat syrupy character at times where there needn't be one had there been tighter, or even just more, carbonation.