April 21st, 2008
CBC
CBC Birthday Celebration
Hey There,
It’s almost time to celebrate CBC’s Birthday!!!
We’re turning 19 this year, and although this gets tougher and tougher each year, Brewmaster Will Meyers is gonna dig deep into the Top Secret CBC Beer Vaults and pull out—
Nineteen Years Nineteen Beers!
Of course Brian in the Kitchen is also doing nineteen dinner specials for the evening but that doesn’t rhyme with ‘years’.
So, let’s just call it Nineteen for Nineteen.
Now, you know by now that we’re always looking for a reason to drink more beer, but this year we’ve really got a lot to celebrate.
For one thing we’re kind of celebrating two anniversaries this year. CBC is of course turning 19. Owner Phil Bannatyne founded CBC (The oldest craft-brewery in the greater Boston area) in late 1988 and after 6 months of personally piecing together the restaurant, kitchen and brewery with his bare hands (I’m told he was literally by himself for the first 4 months painting, cleaning, fixing, building etc.), he opened the CBC, officially, on the first Friday of May, 1989.
(I’m not gonna tell you the part about how CBC actually opened a month earlier on April Fools Day with no beer to serve because Phil would get very angry at me if I told you about that)
But there’s another anniversary this year. Brewmaster Will Meyers is celebrating his 15th year with the company. He started brewing at CBC in 1993 under the tutelage of the original CBC brew crew Darryl Goss and Phil Bannatyne. So he’s given 15 years of his life to CBC and craft beer. (That You’ll Never Get Back, Will!!! )
So I hope you’ll join us to celebrate with these two Craft-Brewery Pioneers.
To be honest, I don’t know much about the beer or food yet. These creative types in the Kitchen and Brewery always like to do things on the fly. I can tell you that there will be a s##t-load of beer. In fact our biggest problem this year is deciding what NOT to serve. (Too bad we’re not turning 24)
I’ll be getting together with Will soon to discuss/arm wrestle over what beers to include and what beers we will have to leave out.
Please feel free to send us your opinions. If there is one beer that you absolutely must see on the beer menu that night, let me know.
As soon as I find out more info I’ll let you know.
Cheers,
Chris
Oh Yeah, P.S. here’s the ‘Save The Date’ info.
CBC Anniversary Celebration
Nineteen Years/Nineteen Beers
Friday, May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd 2008
5:00pm-1:00am
Cambridge Brewing Company
1 Kendall Square, Bldg 100
Cambridge, MA 02139
No Cover/No Tickets
Tables and Barstools available on a first come/first serve basis
Come early/stay late