tap room hours
Monday 3pm-9pm
Tuesday 3pm-9pm
Wednesday 3pm-9pm
Thursday 3pm-10pm
Friday 12pm-10pm
Saturday 12pm-10pm
Sunday 12pm-8pm
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Notch Brewing
525 Western Avenue
Brighton, MA 02135
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Dogs in the Biergarten Only.
Outside food allowed.
21 PLUS after 8pm.
TAP ROOM, BIERGARTEN, BREWERY
Full pours for on-site consumption (1/4 liter, 1/2 liter and liters) and cans to go. Communal tables, counter and table service, it's a place to socialize with friends or meet new ones.
Open year-round (snow, sun, whatever), our 2000 sq ft Biergarten has a seating capacity of 250. Communal tables, heaters in the winter, umbrellas in the summer.
We hope that our brewery will provide customers a way to see the unique brewing processes and equipment we use - a traditional decoction brew-house, open and closed fermentation, horizontal lagering tanks, German gravity cask dispensing, and a Lukr draft system imported from the Czech Republic – tools, process and equipment that will allow a wide variety of lager and continental beer.
CURRENTLY ON TAP
As of August 31st, 2026
CZECH PIVO
TENNER
Czech Pale Lager || 4.0% || Czech Mug || 10° P
Taste: Lemon, Crispy, Black Pepper
Notes: The most widely consumed beer style in the country that consumes the most beer in the world. Brewed with floor-malted Czech barley and Saaz hops. Triple decocted, open fermented, naturally carbonated, lagered forever.
The standard
Czech Pils || 4.4% || Czech Mug || 12° P
Taste: Lemon, Malty Sweetness, Bread
Notes: Classic Czech pale lager, brewed with floor-malted Pils malt and Sterling hops. Double decoction, open fermentation, and extended lagering time bring a bit of Plzen to Brighton and Salem.
poloTMAVÝ
Czech Amber Lager || 4.2% || Czech Mug || 11° P
Taste: Toast, Caramel, Bread
Notes: Polotmavy is Czech for “half-dark,” this 11° Plato Czech Amber Lager is brewed with Czech floor malted pils Vienna and Munich malts for notes of toast, caramel and bread. Czech Sladek hops balance out the malt and provide a spicy finish. This beer also undergoes a unique mashing schedule known as an enhanced double decoction for a more complex malt flavor. Open fermented, naturally carbonated, lagered forever.
TMAVÝ
Czech Dark Lager || 4.5% || Czech Mug || 12° P
Taste: Sweet Dried Fruit, Toasted Dark Bread, Dry Finish
Notes: Tmavy is Czech for "dark". Double decocted, open fermented, naturally carbonated, lagered forever.
GERMAN & austrian BIER
DUNKEL WEIzen
Bavarian Dark Wheat Bier || 5.2% || Weisse Glass
Taste: Bread pudding, Clove, caramelized banana
Notes: Caramelized banana notes and strong clove aromas with hint of vanilla. This full bodied, low bitterness beer is delicious and creamy yet with a refreshing finish from high carbonation. Dunkel = Dark, Weizen = Wheat
GErman Afternoons
German Pils || 4.5% || Willi Becher
Taste: Crisp, Dry, Hoppy
Notes: Brewed with 100% Bavarian heirloom Pils malt, Perle, and Spalter Select hops and fermented with a classic bavarian yeast strain. German Afternoons has an upfront malt fullness that quickly leads to a pleasant drying balanced bitterness. The floral hop aroma comes from Notch's favorite German variety - Spalter Select. Named for the John Prine album, a German Afternoon is a spontaneous afternoon spent enjoying yourself, with a beer or two, instead of doing the errands or chores you "should" be doing.
Sommer Keller
Franconian Pale Lager || 4.5% || Willi Becher
Taste: Bright, Clean, Subtle Sweetness
Notes: Kellerbier, Zwickel, Ungespundet and Landbier are often used interchangeably in Bavaria, and the designation is usually determined by region or the brewer's whim. But these beers share similar traits in that they are not filtered (or fined),which results in a slight haze, and they are mostly served on draft. Our Kellerbier is a pale version with a slightly higher ABV than our Zwickelbier, and carries a bigger, firmer maltiness.
BAVARIAN RADLER
Lager + Lemonade || 2.5% ABV || Willi Becher
SALZBURG RADLER
Lager + Grapefruit Soda || 2.5% ABV || Willi Becher
OTHER BEER STYLES
THE MULE
American Corn Lager || 4.4% || Willi Becher
Taste: Pepper, Floral, Mild sweetness, dry
Notes: The Mule uses the Valley’s Malt Standard Pilsner malt and malted Maize from Hadley Massachusetts. Hopped with American Sterling hops and also dry hopped post fermentation with Crystal hops for an earthy, woody spice and subtle floral notes.
DOG & PONY SHOW
New England Pale Ale || 4.5% || 0.5L Willi Becher
Taste: Bright, Kiwi, Pink Grapefruit
Notes: Brewed with wheat and pils malt, and hopped with only Citra.
GLUTEN FREE
BLOOD ORANGE RADLER
Gluten Free w/ Blood Orange Juice || 5.0% || 14oz Willi Becher
Taste: Citrus, Orange, Lemon
Non Alcoholic Drinks
NON-ALCOHOLIC: BLONDE ALE
Dry Hopped Blonde Ale || 0.5% || Can, Willi Becher
Taste: citrus, spicy, bright
Notes: Hop forward blonde ale, 0.5% ABV
NON-ALCOHOLIC: CRAFT PILS
Pils || 0.5% || Can, Willi Becher
Taste: Bright, Crisp, Refreshing
Notes: Full-flavored, easy-drinking 0.5% ABV
NON-ALCOHOLIC: NE STYLE IPA
NE Style IPA || 0.5% || 12oz Can, Willi Becher
Taste: Tropical, Juicy, Full-bodied
Notes: Full-flavored, juicy 0.5% ABV session beer
MINERAGUA
Sparkling Mineral Water || 12oz Bottle
GUS Soda
Lemon, Grapefruit, Cranberry Lime, Ginger Ale, Cola
BEER TO-GO
AVAILABLE WHENEVER THE TAP ROOM & BIERGARTEN IS OPEN. ORDER AT THE BAr.
LOJKO - 16oz 4-pack
Polish Lager || 4.5%
Taste: Crisp, Bready, Earthy Hop
Notes: Triple decocted pale lager, dry hopped with Polish Lubelski hops. Salem had a long history of Polish immigration, particularly the area around Notch, and the beer is named after our head brewer/founder Chris’ family (Lojko, from Warsaw Poland).
We are a nation built on the backs of immigrants, cheers to us! Na Zdrowie!
THE MULE - 16oz 4-pack
American Corn Lager || 4.4%
Taste: Pepper, floral, mild sweetness, dry
Notes: The Mule uses the Valley’s Malt standard pilsner malt and malted maize from Hadley, Massachusetts. Hopped with American Sterling hops and also dry hopped post-fermentation with Crystal hops for an earthy, woody spice and subtle floral notes.
KOLSCH - 8.4oz 4-pack “stange” Cans
Cologne-style Kolsch || 4.5%
Taste: Bread, fruit, biscuit
Notes: Medium in body with a soft mouthfeel and a straw yellow or pale gold color, Kolsch has a spicy, herbal Noble hop bitterness that is medium to slightly assertive—less than a Pilsner, but not by much. A somewhat fruity or vinous (grape—y from malts) quality and a crisp, dryish finish make up the rest of the flavor profile.
RYE moon - 16oz 4-pack
Amber Rye Hefe || 5.0%
Taste: Clove, Banana, Earthy Spice, Fruity
Notes: Our 2026 collaboration with Die With Your Boots On was inspired by the red moon solstice. Rye Moon is based on our Hefe recipe but substitutes the wheat malt for rye malt and fermented with our house hefe yeast to give this beer an earthy-spicy backbone from the rye to complement the clove/banana aroma and flavors that comes out in our hefe beers.
BLOOD ORANGE RADLER - 12oz 4-pack
Gluten Free w/ Blood Orange Juice || 5.0% || 14oz Willi Becher
Taste: Citrus, Orange, Lemon
NON-ALCOHOLIC: BLONDE ALE - 12oz 6-pack
Dry Hopped Blonde Ale || 0.5%
Taste: citrus, spicy, bright
Notes: Hop forward blonde ale, 0.5% ABV
NON-ALCOHOLIC: CRAFT PILS - 12OZ 6-PACK
Pils || 0.5%
Taste: Bright, Crisp, Refreshing
Notes: Full-flavored, easy-drinking 0.5% ABV
NON-ALCOHOLIC: NE STYLE IPA - 12oz 6-pack
NE Style IPA || 0.5%
Taste: Tropical, Juicy, Full-bodied
Notes: Full-flavored, juicy 0.5% ABV session beer