Life imitates art as beer company with ‘Storrowed’ IPA experiences truck-to-bridge collision

It may not be Boston’s biggest move-in weekend of the year, but it sure felt like it as two separate ‘Storrowings‘ caused traffic, delays, and the usual social media chatter on Friday.

Around noon, karma appeared to find Trillium Brewing Company, as one of its trucks reportedly hit the Longfellow Bridge on Storrow Drive — six years after the Massachusetts-based brewery teased an apparently Photoshopped image of a ‘Storrowing’ before naming a Double IPA after the infamous truck-to-bridge phenomenon.

Trillium even touted the beer as a “public service announcement” in 2018. Six years on, it appears that one of its drivers didn’t get the memo.

The incident affected eastbound traffic, but was cleared by around 1:30 p.m., according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

Earlier in the day, around 7 a.m., a tractor-trailer struck the Bowker Overpass on Storrow Drive, MassDOT posted on X. This impacted westbound traffic.

NBC10 Boston shared multiple photos of the incident on social media and its site, warning of delays as officials cleaned up the scene. Lanes reopened by early afternoon, according to MassDOT.