So Come with Me and We’ll Go See the Big Rock Candy Mountain…

Ah, paradise. Where the Hobo is Lord!

Speculation has been rampant amongst tattered itinerant beer tramps: Lord Hobo, a mythical 40 tap beer bar owned by Daniel Lanigan (of Moan & Dove fame, and less impressively The Other Side) may in fact be opening at the site of the old B-Side in Cambridge. At some point. Maybe.

Thanks to Andy Crouch’sbeerscribe.comwe are now one step closer to… uncertainty.

Perhaps more importantly, Brother Crouch has also graciously supplied a link to the nascentmenuwhich includes such mystery items as “Pretty Things we’ll see” and “Dogfish Head surprise,” but all in all looks pretty freaking awesome, everybody.

And the food… oh man. If they can pull this off, a choir of angels will descend from hobo heaven to sing its praises. Lord Hobo has the potential to rival Allston gastropub (and my current favorite),Deep Ellum. And the fact that they intend to offer chips and curry might just put them over the edge. This is a standard pub fare that no Boston beer bar seems to understand should be a mandatory menu item (unless you countStone’s Public Housein Ashland).

So we have the who, the what, the where, and the why. We’re just waiting on the when, Lord Hobo. We don’t care about the how.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There’s a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around ‘em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

I’ll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains