There are usually a lot of things that change from when a business is first conceived to when it first opens its doors. Brewers are not immune to this, and most will tell you that what they finally opened with was far from the original hopes. For the founders of Lamplighter Brewing Co. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this is certainly true—all except for one thing: the location.
From the start, Founders Cayla Marvil and AC Jones knew that they wanted their brewery to be located in Cambridge. At the time, they were living in the city, just west of Boston. They had started to put down roots and saw a need for a second brewery in the crowded metropolitan area. (Cambridge Brewing Co. had been in town for more than 2 decades, and a John Harvard’s Alehouse had stopped brewing but was still serving beer.)
“Even our real estate broker, whom we still use, wondered, ‘Why not Everett, or Medford, or someplace else,’ where the rents are cheaper and we could actually get some space,” says Marvil. “But we knew we wanted to be here. We wanted to be part of this community.”
The taproom is appointed with comfortable accomodations for socializing over coffee or beer.