Buttonwoods Brewery in Cranston .
Buttonwoods Brewery
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The Cranston brewery specializes in European-style lagers and uses local farm ingredients in farmhouse-style ales and saisons , served with a side of comedy .
Brewer Morgan Clark Snyder Jr . sits at a vintage booth inside the Annex retro-styled tasting room of Buttonwoods Brewery wearing a hat that says “ Lager , Lager , Lager , Lager ” and a shirt that declares 2021 Summer of Lager . He clearly loves lager . He doesn ’ t have to tell you . He ’ s the poster child for it .
The Buttonwoods Brewery owner and part-time Instagram TV comedian with a penchant for phony accents , karaoke-singing sock puppets and playfully shotgunning two beers at once ( with messy side effects ), Snyder was once the guy repairing draft lines for a beer distributor before he was finally hired by a brewery to formulate the brews that flow out of them . Now he owns his own brewery with his dad , Morgan Snyder Sr .
Whenever Snyder releases a new beer , he uses Instagram IGTV to promote it via videos in his “ Barrel Corner ” series . These always-amusing clips tell the stories behind the beers through candid conversation , entertaining editing effects and costumed characters , such as a beanie- , “ Pizza and Pounders ” windbreaker- and yellow short-shorts-wearing German intern named Lieben . Snyder ’ s talented brother , Max Snyder , who also works in the tap room , films and edits the vignettes .
“ Barrel Corner ” was born from the idea behind Franklin Roosevelt ’ s fireside chats . “ I used to | | CONTINUED ON PAGE 96
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