Mighty Squirrel opens sprawling seasonal beer garden at Gore Place

Mighty Squirrel Brewing Co. has turned Gore Place into a new warm-weather draw for Greater Boston drinkers, opening a sprawling seasonal Biergarten on the Waltham-Watertown line that stretches across roughly 60,000 square feet and runs through October.

The setup is built for more than a quick pour. Visitors can expect a rotating lineup of Mighty Squirrel beers alongside hard seltzers, hard smoothies, nonalcoholic beers and other drinks, with a food truck on site to turn the space into a full outdoor hangout rather than a simple service window. The scale and variety make the new beer garden feel closer to a destination than a pop-up, especially as Greater Boston’s beer-garden scene keeps getting more competitive.

The operating schedule is designed for regular return visits. Gore Place’s Biergarten opened May 8 and is open Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., then Fridays through Sundays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Parking is available at 52 Gore Street in Waltham, with accessible parking at 249 Waltham Street in Watertown and overflow parking at the Jewish Community Day School. Local event listings also describe the space as using a large tent and operating rain or shine, which gives it a practical edge when summer weather turns unpredictable.

The location matters as much as the pours. Gore Place traces its history to 1806 and says the Gore Place Society was founded in 1935 to preserve the estate. Today the 50-acre property functions as a museum, working farm, green space and community resource on the former country estate of Christopher and Rebecca Gore. Its annual Sheepshearing Festival has already shown the site can draw a crowd, with live music, more than 100 craft and fiber artists, shearing demonstrations, herding dogs, historic reenactors and hands-on activities filling the grounds at the 2026 event on April 25.

For Mighty Squirrel, the beer garden adds another high-visibility on-premise channel to a portfolio that already spans Waltham, Fenway and Arsenal Yards in Watertown. The brewery launched in Boston in 2015 and opened its Waltham taproom and brewery in December 2018, helping establish what local coverage has described as Waltham’s only production brewery and taproom. In a season when outdoor hospitality, mixed beverage options and family-friendly settings are driving more beer decisions, Gore Place gives Mighty Squirrel a setting that could change where Greater Boston plans its next patio stop.