Look for Time & Materials Beer, coming to you straight from a Reading garage Itâs in this garage that Brian Shirley tinkers with imaginative beers heâll soon sell more regularly to the public. By Gary Dzen Globe Staff,Updated March 2, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Time & Materials beerTime & Materials Packed into Brian Shirleyâs finished garage in the Boston suburb of Reading are four fermentation tanks that, officially, make up an entire brewery. Time & Materials Beer Co. is licensed to brew and sell beer by the state of Massachusetts (so long as the taxable goods are kept under lock and key, which they are). Itâs in this garage that Shirley tinkers with imaginative beers heâll soon sell more regularly to the public. Shirley has no intention of moving into a bigger space, or opening a taproom; this is the brewery, and one of the main reasons â besides raising a family â that he decamped from Cambridge.