Longtime Cambridge Brewery To Shut Down For Good

WBZ NewsRadio's Chaiel Schaffel reports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
They've had thirty five years of business, but Cambridge Brewing
Company has reached the bottom of the glass. The Landmark
Group Hub is closing up shop this week.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tons of feelings, I mean wistful, a little sad that
it is in fact coming to an end.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
That's founder Phil Bennettine, who wants to retire. He says
the craft beer scene was almost non existent when they
started in nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Most people in America understood beer to be Budweiser, Millerer cores.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now there's thousands of craft breweries across the country, and
CBC is one of the pioneers. Matt is one of
the regulars around here since nineteen eighty nine, coming for
the beer and the atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
We'd have lunch meetings with vendors on Friday, which would
start at lunch and then just go well into the evening.
Thanks to the magic of the barley wine.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
So many customers wanted to keep sipping Phil's beers. After
the closure that he sold off his recipes. Castle Island
Brewing will now reproduce some of them. Kyle Schaffele to
be busy Boston Shows Radio