Latino-owned Roundhead Brewing hits the road with a traveling beer garden this summer
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At Roundhead Brewing, the first Latino-owned brewery in Massachusetts located in Hyde Park, it’s all about beer and community. Owners Luis Espinoza and Craig Panzer wanted to create a space where family and friends could gather over delicious food and a cold brew. Now they’re bringing that spirit to the rest of the city with a summer-wide traveling beer garden popping up around Boston.
The program began in June with a pop-up at A Street Park in South Boston. Throughout the summer Roundhead will hit six neighborhoods in Boston including Copley Square Park in Back Bay, Adams Park in Roslindale, LoPresti Park in East Boston, Jamaica Pond Pinebank in Jamaica Plain and the Brighton Common in Allston-Brighton.
Roundhead also has an ongoing beer garden at the former JP Gas station in Jamaica Plain at 561 Centre Street through Sept. 27.
A crowd lines up at the Roundhead Brewing Company pop-up beer garden in Roslindale. PHOTO: COURTESY ROUNDHEAD BREWING
“Boston’s parks are a refreshing place to bring together community members and create opportunities for local businesses,” said Mayor Michelle Wu. “I am excited to see Roundhead Beer Garden travel across our lively parks for a second year as Boston continues to be a fun and family-friendly home for all with public spaces for all to enjoy.”
The Roundhead brews use Latin American flavors and hyper-local Massachusetts ingredients whenever possible. The Peruvian Red Ale is brewed with Peruvian purple corn and notes of caramel and toffee, the Creamy Mango IPA brings fresh, fruity flavors and the Berliner Weisse cheekily claims to be “fermented with 72 hours of reggae music.”
“The Roundhead Brewing Beer Garden series is a great example of how partnerships with local businesses can build community, support public spaces and invite people to enjoy our parks in a variety of ways,” said the city’s Chief Climate Officer and Interim Parks Commissioner Brian Swett.
Boston beer lovers can sample the unique flavors of these brews year-round at the Roundhead Brewing Company at Westinghouse Plaza in Hyde Park. A full schedule of the dates for each beer garden stop is available on the Roundhead website.
The traveling beer garden series works on several levels. It allows Roundhead to bring their beer and their cultural and community-based mission to neighborhoods in Boston. It also creates active, outdoor public space during Boston’s warm weather months. Most of all, Espinoza hopes it brings Bostonians together.
“We are proud to bring people together in our city to celebrate community and spend time together,” said Espinoza, who also founded Roundhead Brewing. “That’s our mission — cerveza que reune!”
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