Mayflower Brewing Company will close its brewery and taproom on Resnik Road on Dec. 31, ending nearly two decades at the industrial-park address it has used since 2007. Production is moving to Hyannis. The new owner also says the seasonal beer garden on the Village Green will stay open, while the company looks for a new home for the brand's taproom.
Plymouth's oldest craft brewery will have no brewery in Plymouth. After New Year's, the only Mayflower location in town confirmed for next year is the lawn near 3 Village Green North, a few steps from Book Love and The Market. That spot already sets the rhythm of the Green's calendar from late spring into fall.
Why the brewery is leaving and the beer garden is staying
The Plymouth Independent reported the closing on Sept. 29. Mike McNamara, owner of Orleans-based Hog Island Beer Company, bought Mayflower in 2025. He told the paper that Mayflower beer will now be brewed in Hyannis at the Cape Cod Beer brewery, which he bought at the same time.
He gave two reasons. On the Resnik Road building, he told the Independent, "The space is just far too great for what we need, and the cost associated was pretty grand." On where craft beer is heading, he said, "Industrial park or corporate park breweries are challenged right now. People are really looking for more of an experience."
That second quote helps explain why the Pinehills location stayed. The Village Green garden comes with live music, a rotating food truck, artisan pop-ups on some Sundays and a signed parking lot at Meeting Way and Purchase Street. Visitors get the full afternoon McNamara describes without making a trip to a business park.
The pressure behind the decision goes well beyond Plymouth. The Independent cited Massachusetts Brewers Guild figures showing 179 breweries in the state as of July, down from 236 in January 2025. Plymouth still has six other breweries: Vitamin Sea, Untold Brewing, Second Wind, IndieFerm, Llama Nama and Sour Not Sorry.
The season got longer, and only the weekends are left
Mayflower's own beer garden page still lists a Memorial Day through Columbus Day season, and the Plymouth Independent's Oct. 5 events roundup called Oct. 9 through 12 the final weekend. The Pinehills beer garden page now says the season has been extended through Sunday, Nov. 1, on Saturdays and Sundays only. Thursday and Friday sessions ended Oct. 9.
As of Thursday, Oct. 22, four afternoons remain on the Pinehills calendar:
| Date | Hours | Food truck listed |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, Oct. 24 | 2 to 8 p.m. | Lobsta Love |
| Sunday, Oct. 25 | Noon to 6 p.m. | Kogi on the Gogi |
| Saturday, Oct. 31 | 2 to 8 p.m. | Kogi on the Gogi |
| Sunday, Nov. 1 | Noon to 6 p.m. | Alden Park-ed |
Weather has already canceled at least one Sunday session this fall, on Sept. 27. Before heading over on a gray afternoon, check the Mayflower Beer Garden calendar at pinehills.com, where the garden posts cancellations and music lineups.
Five weeks without the garden
Between Nov. 2 and Dec. 5, the beer garden is closed, but the Green still has events on most days of the week. Each one is small and comes from a business with a fixed address on the Green. On the November calendar, the week looks like this:
- Sunday: Cinnamon Roll Sunday at STUZZi, 9 to 9:45 a.m. STUZZi is the café and sweet shop at One Village Green North, Suite 114. Christina and David Bunda opened it in 2024, and it sells family-recipe chocolates, gelato and espresso.
- Monday: Senior discount at Mamma Mia's Pinehills, 4 to 9 p.m., at 3 Village Green North, Suite 312.
- Tuesday and Thursday: The Market's chef-made hot dinners, 4 to 7 p.m. or while supplies last, at 6 Purchase Street. The menu is posted on The Market's Facebook page.
- Wednesday: Book Love storytime for ages 1 to 4 at 10 a.m., and a veterans discount at Mamma Mia's from 4 to 9 p.m.
- Saturday: Book Love storytime for ages 3 to 6 at 10 a.m.
Friday is the one gap. The November calendar has nothing listed for Nov. 6, 13, 20 or 27, which until Oct. 9 were beer garden nights.
The Market's hot dinners carry a lot of the weeknight schedule. The Market has been on Purchase Street since 2008, and its Tuesday and Thursday dinners are on the calendar every week through November and into December, including Thanksgiving Day itself, Nov. 26. Since those dinners are served while supplies last, a call ahead that day is a good idea.
The monthly fixtures
Book Love, at 7 Village Green South, adds the events that come around once a month. Its Book Club meets on the second Monday, which is Nov. 9 at 5:30 p.m. Its Book Swap is on the third Saturday, which is Nov. 21 at 11 a.m. The store is co-owned by Katie Mannix, and its full schedule is on the Book Love events page.
Before November, the store has three evening events left this month. Book Bedazzling runs Friday, Oct. 23, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. A release party for A Court of Splintered Harmony starts at 11 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 26. A Tarot Pop Up with Lucy Cicero runs Friday, Oct. 30, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Mirbeau Inn & Spa is just off the Green. It hosts a Jane Iredale Evening on Tuesday, Nov. 10, from 4 to 6 p.m.
The farmers market won't be on the November calendar. Book Love's market in the Rowen Public Courtyard held its last 2026 session on Oct. 11, and it returns for one day in December.
December 6, when Mayflower comes back for the holidays
The quiet weeks end on Sunday, Dec. 6, with Jingle All the Way to The Pinehills Village Green, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The save-the-date lists:
- Book Love's Holiday Farmers Market, sponsored by Rowen at The Pinehills
- The 20th Annual Reindog Parade, benefiting Plymouth Helping Hands for Animals
- A Mayflower Brewing Winter Beer Garden
- Santa
- Food trucks, plus activities and shopping at Village Green businesses
The Winter Beer Garden on Dec. 6 falls 25 days before the Resnik Road taproom closes. After Dec. 31, the Green is the only Plymouth location the company has committed to, until it announces a new taproom. The Pinehills page says more Jingle details will come closer to the date, so check it again for the parade schedule and the vendor list.
The Reindog Parade turns 20 this December, and the Village Green beer garden is set to stay open after the Resnik Road brewery closes on Dec. 31. If a Pinehills home is part of your plans for next year, or you are wondering how the Green's calendar shows up in what a home here is worth, Selling South of Boston is glad to talk it through over a cinnamon roll at STUZZi or a pint in the beer garden before Nov. 1. When you're ready, ask us for a Free Home Valuation.
