Cult-followed Massachusetts brewery Tree House Brewing Company returns to Boston's Prudential Center this August with an exclusive pop-up beer garden series. Every Thursday this month, Tree House will bring to the mall and office tower's South Lawn a selection of its world-class IPAs, lagers, stouts and other beers alongside the company's own non-alcoholic seltzers. Live music and lawn games are planned for each event.
Tree House first popped up at the Pru for a beer garden series in 2019. At the time, Tree House was still relatively new to its 55,000-square foot production facility and tasting room in Charlton, where it moved from much smaller digs just west of Worcester. The Charlton spot continues to draw long lines of fans who often leave with dollycarts full of cases of coveted beer.
The highly acclaimed and much-hyped brewery has since grown even more exponentially: In recent years, Tree House has opened destination-worthy taprooms in South Deerfield, Sandwich and Tweksbury, Mass., as well as Woodstock, Conn., where visitors will find not only great beer but also touring musical acts (South Deerfield), beachfront property (Sandwich), 18 holes of golf (Tewksbury) and anidyllic farm and craft cider operation (Connecticut). Tree House now also makes spirits and liquers as well as hard cider, roasts coffee, carbonates seltzer and fires up bespoke food offerings at all its locations.
The Back Bay pop-up will not offer can sales, but it will otherwise likely invoke the scene Tree House cultivates among fans and the beer-curious. The pop-up Tree House beer garden at the Prudential Center starts at 3pm and continues until sundown on Thursdays in August.
At noon on Thursdays throughout the summer, the South Lawn at the Prudential center hosts live music performances by Berklee affiliates, and it shows outdoor movie nights on select Saturdays.