Best of Boston

2009 Best Pickup Bar, Boho Beer Snobs

The Publick House

At Brookline’s artisan-suds mecca, a vintage Son Volt tour tee will get you further with the aging hipster crowd than any designer finery; let it slip that you grow your own hops, and you might very well seal the deal.

1648 Beacon St., Brookline, 617-277-2880,