Fridge Door Rankings

Marcus Hsu

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These are the Boston-area beers I keep coming back to, the ones that survive my ruthless spreadsheeting and my even more ruthless Sunday pick-up hangovers. It’s a mix of comfort lagers, hazy juice bombs, and one West Coast troublemaker — basically my drinking life in eight data points. If you’re building a local rotation, start here and then we can argue over what I snubbed.

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Fridge Door Rankings — 6 items
Name	Style	Brewery	ABV	Best For	My take
1Samuel Adams Boston Lager	Vienna-style lager	Boston Beer Company	5.0%	Backyard cookouts and introducing your macro‑lager friend to flavor	Baseline Boston beer. If my night were a box score, this is the reliable 18‑5‑5 starter: never the wild highlight, but it quietly holds everything together.
2Harpoon IPA	American IPA	Harpoon Brewery	6.0%	Post‑game beers near the Garden or Seaport when you want classic, not experimental	Feels like the NESN of IPAs: it’s just always been there. Clean bitterness, citrusy hops, and a throwback vibe that still totally works.
3Night Shift Whirlpool	Hazy pale ale	Night Shift Brewing	4.5%	Summer porch sessions and low‑key weeknights when you have emails at 8 a.m.	Crushable without being boring. Like a point guard who scores 12 but racks up 15 assists — all soft peach and citrus, zero palate fatigue.
4Lord Hobo Boom Sauce	Double New England IPA	Lord Hobo Brewing Company	7.8%	Pre‑game nights when subtlety left the chat two hours ago	This one is a hop sledgehammer. Juicy, dank, and a little chaotic — like that friend who is either the MVP of the night or the reason you order late‑night dumplings.
5Lamplighter Birds of a Feather	New England IPA	Lamplighter Brewing Co.	6.8%	Cambridge bar crawls and low‑light vinyl nights	Soft, citrusy, and slightly tropical — like Congress Street’s artsy cousin who moved across the river and got really into album cover aesthetics.
6Aeronaut A Year With Dr. Nandu	West Coast–style IPA	Aeronaut Brewing Company	6.3%	Palate resets when you’re over haze and want pine and bitterness back	Spiky, resinous, and proudly old‑school. This is the IPA equivalent of full‑court man‑to‑man: aggressive, honest, and weirdly refreshing after too many soft zones.

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