Come when you can, leave when you must! Some people drop by for a drink and a quick hello on the way home from work. Some people come after dinner and stay late. Some people come right at 7:30 and stay the entire time. The evening is populated by introverts and extroverts, but everyone likes new friends and good conversation, so if we’re not fast enough introducing you to folks, nobody will blink if you grab the nearest person and ask them for their story. You’re welcome to spread out across our living room/porch/yard to enjoy whatever conversation is clicking.

Barring the rare reschedule, it's always the last Friday of each month, from 7:30pm to 10:30ish (or whenever the last guest gets tired!). You can always contact us if you’re unsure whether it’s still happening.

Preferred: Join the Facebook Group; we update this most often with date changes, menu details, etc. and periodically ask for input on both.
If you’re not on Facebook or don’t check it much, request a calendar invite using the link above. We try to email that group each month with a roundup of the info from the Facebook group.

Brian and Christina Brown’s house in the Old North End. Contact us for the address (using the button above) if you don’t have it or aren’t in the Facebook group.

We ask that you bring a small cash contribution to put in the jar to help defray costs (most people bring $10 per person). It’s expensive to make 30+ fancy cocktails a night; we’re happy to lose some money on it but your gifts keep this sustainable for us. Besides, how exotic the menu gets depends on how much we have to spend! You are welcome but not required to bring munchies. If you’re super-serious and have questions about pairing with the drinks, just ask--otherwise things like crackers and cheese, chips and hummus, and baked goods are usually a good bet!
Don't carry cash? You can also make a contribution toward the cost of happy hour via Google Pay (blbrown07@gmail.com), Venmo (username @brian-brown-4), or Paypal. (We also never say no to a bottle of something you recommend!)

No, but as this is a very expensive thing to host, we deeply appreciate your contributions of a suggested $10 per person:

• Venmo (username @brian-brown-4)

• Paypal

• We also never say no to food, or a bottle of something you recommend!

10-20 other people who love deep conversation, community, laughter, and (most of them) great cocktails. There are artists and engineers, stay-at-home parents and entrepreneurs, priests and atheists, young and old.

If we’ve invited you, or you’re on the email list, or in the Facebook group, or friends with anyone who said you should come, you and anyone in your family are welcome. We also find it’s a great place for meeting new people--so if you have a friend who loves good conversation and good drinks, by all means bring them along. Some of our most fun regulars are people who were total strangers who turned up on the doorstep at a friend’s invitation.

We’re a bit countercultural on this. We have a nice yard to play in during the warm months, and babies and kids of any age are welcome. But we also think it’s normal and healthy for children to spend time with adults, listen to (and even engage in) adult conversation, and see adults consuming alcohol not only responsibly but well--they can pick up wonderful experiences, and build images of what having fun can look like for grownups. It’s not just about staying out of the way; it’s about being invited into the adults’ world. Bottom line: kids are very welcome, but this is adult time, and kids who come should expect to do so on the adults’ terms (especially if they’re indoors).

If you’re not a cocktail person (yet?), fear not. The community’s the point, not the cocktails. We’ll find you something you like; it’s one of Brian’s favorite things to do. And if you don’t drink, we always have something non-alcoholic up our sleeve—just ask Brian what he’s got off-menu and we’ll hook you up.

We’d like to take care of that too.

Well, Christina and Brian are Anglicans. So we like this article as a good starting point. Also, there’s a little backstory in this article Brian wrote a while back. Ultimately, we like to think we’re following in the great tradition of western civilization in enriching and strengthening our community by “thinking and drinking” together. This isn’t a “party” in the sense that you complain to the neighbors about--good drinking happens in good company, and we have plenty of both, so we’ve never had problems with intoxication at happy hour.