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Northshore October 2025
Salem’s historical background and year-round fondness for skeletons, spirits, and haunts offer up a freebie concept for any brewery mulling over the town as a possible location: Lean into the spookiness when designing the space and developing a tap list. Lafayette Street’s Couch Dog Brewing, which opened doors last June, pays tribute to The Witch City’s character with Portergeist, one of two dark beers on the menu.  But the brewery actually draws more personality from the Korean-American heritage of one of its cofounders. Adam Shoemaker and his partner, Alli, got their start home brewing, as many brewery owners do, experimenting
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