Wormtown, Table Talk collaborate as both companies grow
Courtesy/Wormtown Brewery
Ben Roesch of Wormtown Brewery removes a Table Talk pie from its package Wednesday.
One of Worcester’s oldest-running businesses is collaborating with one of the city’s fastest-growing businesses to please our pumpkin-craving palates this fall.
On Wednesday, brewers at Wormtown Brewery tossed pumpkin pies from Table Talk Pies into a lauter tun to begin cooking up a fall brew.
It’s the second year of the informal collaboration between the two companies, according to Wormtown.
The collaboration is hardly an agreement, said Wormtown Managing Partner David Fields.
“They get to come have beers with us and we get to eat some of their pies,” he said. “It’s a good old-fashioned American bartering system.”
The innovation between businesses comes as both companies are expanding. Wormtown is expanding at their current 72 Shrewsbury location and also planning to open a location in New Hampshire while Table Talk will soon be opening a 50,000-square-foot facility in the South Worcester Industrial Park.
According to Brewmaster Ben Roesch, the beer -- dubbed the Table Talk Pumpkin Pie Ale -- is brewed basically like any other beer, expect for the tasty ingredients added along the way. Most notable of those ingredients, of course, is the pie.
The brewery posted photos and videos to its Facebook page of the process, which literally involved taking a pumpkin pie out of a Table Talk box and dumping it in with the brew’s mixture.
The brewery also makes a pumpkin beer, but this beer will taste like a pie, which means capturing the sugars and sweetness associated with the fall treat.
Roesch said he called the nearly century-old pie makers last fall to inquire about a collaboration.
“It was just one of those things that reminded me of being a kid in Worcester,” Roesche said about the company and the pies he would devour as a child.
“Table Talk is right there,” he said. “They’re not only growing, but they’ve been around forever.”
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