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Experience what life was like in Colonial New England’s public houses, “ordinaries” and taverns-past - complete with tastings and irreverent drinking songs!
To work up a good thirst, enjoy a short stroll and guided tour around Monument Square to discover other historic pubs that once ‘watered the horses and brandied the gentlemen’. Learn how the existence of taverns was actually required by law in Puritan Massachusetts, how they shaped Concord’s history and even hosted soldiers from both sides of the American Revolution.
Then, head to the celebrated Colonial Inn where you’ll find Abijah Toddy fiddling around the Punch Bowl - drinking Rum and talking Revolution! He’ll ladle out a cup of Liberty Punch from Paul Revere’s Bowl and tell the fascinating story of the Liberty Song while toasting every verse!
a little irreverent. a lot of fun.
Delve into one of the greatest social inventions in history - the tavern!
Rum Punch – dark rum with ginger beer, ladled from a punch bowl and accompanied by song!
Grog – same rum with water and scurvy powder!
Sipping rum – an 18 year old rum as would have been used in a ‘Hum Glass’
Ginger beer – non-alcoholic soda with an amazing history
Birch beer – another soda with long history in the colonies
Sassafras – soda that was thought to cure - of all things - gonorrhea!
Madeira – the wine of gentlemen (Washington drank a bottle every night!)
Flip – Beer with rum, eggs, cream and a hot poker (not surprisingly, this one’s kinda messy)
The Village Forge Tavern @ Concord’s Colonial Inn
And what drinks shall be drank...?
An evening of fun doled out in historic proportions!
This event requires a minimum of 10 people, ages 21 and up. Price on request.
Sing along to the original drinking version of the Star Spangled Banner and, among other things, learn why George Washington named his house after the ‘Admiral of Rum’ and... toasted Ben Franklin’s elbow!
Check out Ben Franklin’s list of 228 ways of saying “drunk”, first published in 1737. It should go without saying that our favorite is “halfway to Concord”.
