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About us
Children: Families with children are absolutely welcome. We simply ask that families stick together and parents/caregivers be respectful of other customers and that children remain supervised and stay in their parent’s/caregiver’s reach.
Dogs: Given that we have a full kitchen, we are not allowed to have dogs in our taproom and, while it broke our hearts to do so, after a series of very negative experiences, we’ve been forced to stop allowing dogs within our outside space as well. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Policies:
- Children: Families with children are absolutely welcome. We simply ask that families stick together and parents/caregivers be respectful of other customers and that children remain supervised and stay in their parent's/caregiver's reach.
- Dogs: Given that we have a full kitchen, we are not allowed to have dogs in our taproom and, while it broke our hearts to do so, after a series of very negative experiences, we’ve been forced to stop allowing dogs within our outside space as well. We apologize for any inconvenience.
History & Tidbits:
- Bog Iron Brewing is a full production brewery (with a decent-sized brewing operation located in the back of the building)
- Legally, we can not serve any alcohol other than what we produce ourselves within this building (wine and cider would be separate licenses that would be extremely difficult for us to hold)
- Established in 2011, our first beer was produced, in this building, on Jan 1, 2013
- The entire original brewery was housed within 399 sq ft within this building and was started by three homebrewer friends who, at the time, had a combined 50+ years of brewing experience under their belts.
- “Bog Iron” is a raw iron ore commonly found throughout southern New England. It was mined and smelted in the foundries of the original colonies starting in the 1600's. Remains of the Chartley Iron Works, which was built in the late 1600's are still standing about 2 miles from our location.
- Almost everything you see in our taproom (bar, bar-back tap-box, floor, etc.) was built by hand, in-house, by our staff. Any furniture in our tap room that uses barrel staves was made in-house using barrels from our brewing process. With any tables you see with “inlaid boards”, every one of those boards were recycled from pallets that were used to deliver materials to the brewery.
- Our current tap room, up until December of 2021 was still “temporary” space occupied during COVID shutdowns (and not very pretty at all). Since then, it has become our long-term space and we continue to improve it as we go for the comfort and enjoyment of our guests.
Favors:
- Please enjoy our products responsibly.
- There is no smoking anywhere in our taproom or beer garden. We do have a stand-up ashtray by the entrance for smokers to use and we ask that you please use that rather than our planters.
- If you are able to pay your tab in cash, it would be greatly appreciated. We desperately try to keep our prices as reasonable as possible and credit card fees are taking an increasingly large chunk, making it more and more difficult to keep our prices where they are.
- Everything we do is geared towards providing a friendly, relaxed, and fun atmosphere for our guests to enjoy among friends (ones they know and ones yet to be met) to the greatest extent possible. Please help us all by contributing to that kind of environment.
- If you see a white and black cat in the parking lot, that's Jax, our brewery cat. Please do not run him over. He is fine outside and anything he is doing is simply tricking you into giving him attention (he's super sketchy).
- Our parking lot can be a bit crowded and we do try to avoid filling the bank's parking lot, especially when they are open. If our lot is a bit crowded please consider using the free public parking lot next to CVS (behind the Trent Memorial).