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Welcome to Balefire where we provide you with the best in hand-selected wines and beers!
We're not a beer bar, and we're not a wine bar. We're both. We like to say that we specialize in fine fermentables. For years we've had to go to one type of bar for one beverage and another type of bar for another. That simply doesn't make any sense, so we built a bar to treat both equally. We hand-select the best beverages in terms of value and quality to give you the best experience possible.
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Schedule
To see a lineup of scheduled musicians, check out our Music Calendar page.
To see our scheduled Wine Tastings and Brewer's Nights, check out our Wine and Beer Events page.
Beer
As homebrewers, judges, beer-journalists, and discerning consumers we know beer! We know that quality, variety, and rarity are what get us to come to bars and keep us coming back. So while we only have 12 taps at the moment, we try hard to keep them eclectic, fresh, and interesting, and back that up with a large bottle selection (which you can buy to go).
Our goal is to not carry any draft beers that you can get anywhere else in the North End. We also try to keep 2 Belgians on draft at all times and fill that out with the best craft and imported seasonals we can find.
If you aren't for the Taplister thing, check out the tap list here.
Food
You can't have great beer and wine without food. Balefire is proud to present a New Food Menu, full of selections to please any appetite, from small to large. Try pairing your wine with one of the new cheese plates or other small nibblies, or have one of our new hearty sandwiches, washed down with one of the 12 great beers on tap.
You'll also find your new and old favorites in full meal fashion with 1 of 3 side dishes.
Check out our menu.
Wine
20 years ago, Coopers made Time magazine by putting 20 beers on tap. 10 years ago, Fred's was voted one of the 10 best beer bars in the country for carrying Belgians on tap. Now, there is hardly a bar without 12 well-maintained taps and at least a few selections for craft beer lovers.
Sadly, despite the latest resurgence in "wine bars," wine service and selection have not kept up to speed. We set out to rectify that by building our very own cruvinet to serve 24 wines on tap, under atmospheric and temperature control.
At Balefire, we work with a number of distributors and winemakers to hand select wines that meet our criteria for both quality and value. Then, we treat these wines with care.
In fact, once a bottle is opened and put under argon gas in the cruvinet, it's more inert than it was in the bottle! This means every glass from that bottle will taste exactly the same. And this also means that we can put on rare and expensive bottles for you to try that you may never otherwise get a chance at.
Check out our list.