by Shawn Hakimi | Feb 13, 2020
Last year, a team of four sustainability graduate students in Sweden conducted research on five active Venture Café sites around the world for an international masters Thesis. The findings were laid out in terms of programming and operations and offer a set of...
by Venture Café Cambridge | May 13, 2011 | Beverages
Many Venture Cafe guests have inquired at the bar as to how we choose the beers on tap and how we procure them. It’s not always a straight-forward process, so I thought I’d enlighten guests on the byzantine world of craft beer keg retail. In order to choose beers, we...
by Venture Café Cambridge | Sep 12, 2010 | Beverages
I’m not a huge fan of the “seasonal beer,” but I have been looking forward to seeing the various Oktoberfest beers on the shelves. Oktoberfest beers are officially known as Maerzens. The name comes from the time of year historically designated for brewing in Bavaria,...
by Venture Café Cambridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Beverages
I set aside time this past weekend for some more very serious beer research. With Carrie slaving away on her thesis, I attended Julio’s Liquors Belgian Beer Fest with a group of beer enthusiasts. You may ask, as I did, what makes Belgian beers Belgian? I imagined...