Every year on Patriots’ Day, approximately 30,000 runners and half a million spectators appear en masse along the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon route from Hopkinton to Copley Square in Boston.

By the time participants arrive at Mile 24, they have conquered Heartbreak Hill and are realizing how close they really are to that blue and yellow finish line.

Mile 24 is also home to our Coolidge Corner location and mere steps away from the marathon route on Beacon Street. The all-day party that takes over Boston and its suburbs always seems to find its way through our doors in Coolidge. Hundreds of spectators come in on Marathon Monday to fill up on pizza and beer before & after cheering on their favorite marathon runners. This year, we teamed up with Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers for an all-day tap takeover with 6 of their beers on tap and the pizza ovens full ’round the clock.

Check out this year’s Marathon Monday!

On Monday, April 17th, we’re teaming up with our friends from Jack’s Abby Brewing Craft Brewing for a Marathon Monday Tap Takeover!

Join us at our Coolidge Corner location in Brookline, MA for a day of marathon cheers and lots of beers. We’ll be handing out tons of swag and pouring some of Jack’s Abby’s best brews throughout the day. Come join the fun as we carb-load our way through race day from 11AM to 11PM.

There’s something for everyone in this delicious draft lineup:

• SAXONY LAGER – Vienna style – 5% ABV
• LEISURE TIME WHEAT – A wheat lager with spice – 4.8% ABV
• HOUSE LAGER – Bier – 5.2% ABV
• HOPONIOUS UNION IPL – India pale lager – 6.5% ABV
• MOLE BOURBON BARREL-AGED FRAMINGHAMMER – Baltic porter – 10% ABV
• WICKED PHILTHY – NE-style India pale lager (collaboration with Sole Artisan Ales ) – 7.0% ABV

As an added bonus to the festivities, all marathon runners presenting their race bib will receive 10% off their tab!

Cheers to all Boston Marathon runners and supporters!

On the heels of Autohelm, the highly regarded winter collaboration, OTTO and Rising Tide Brewing Company are bringing back their spring collaboration, Oscar Tango Tango Oscar, a crisp, snappy, and sessionable pale ale brewed with rice.

Now available in Maine, diners at all OTTO locations will be able to pair their pie with Oscar Tango Tango Oscar. By mid-April, OTTO diners at our Coolidge Corner, Comm Ave, and Arlington locations in Massachusetts will be able to do the same.

This limited special collaboration will be available exclusively at OTTO and the Rising Tide tasting room.

The brewing process kicked off in early March, with OTTO team members on site to learn how the beer is made. While the Autohelm collaboration was brewed to provide a hearty, hoppy dose of comfort during the harsh New England winter, Oscar Tango Tango Oscar’s citrusy snap goes perfect on our sunny patios while sharing one of OTTO’s spring pies — eggplant, ricotta and basil, or roasted chicken, caramelized pears and fontina.

Oscar Tango Tango Oscar’s profile is sure to provoke an onset of Spring Fever.

Check out brew day behind-the-scenes here!

Aroma: tangerine, orange peel, grapefruit, rose
Taste: tangerine, grapefruit, cereal, crisp with a snappy bitterness
Malts: 2-row, flaked rice, carapils
Hops: amarillo, mandarina, cascade
Yeast: house american ale
Specifics: 4.4% abv, 1.044 o.g., 4 srm, 25 ibu

Cheers!