Best Boston Brewery Taprooms

Beer-curious visitors and locals can use this guide to build a brewery crawl across Boston's inner metro, drinking steps from where the beer is made. Taprooms sit in the Seaport and Fort Point, Jamaica Plain, Dorchester and Brighton, plus Cambridge, Somerville and Everett.

Harpoon's Seaport beer hall pairs long tables with a flight of IPAs and a giant soft pretzel. Samuel Adams pours small-batch releases in Jamaica Plain's old Haffenreffer brewery complex, where Boston Lager was first developed. Remnant Brewing sits in the Bow Market courtyard in Union Square, with lagers and session beers suited to hanging out. Dorchester Brewing Company has an in-house kitchen and a rooftop deck made for warm afternoons, and Notch in Brighton pours Czech-style lagers from side-pull taps. Tours run most days at Harpoon, and Night Shift in Everett brings food trucks and games on weekends.