​Hi kids! We've got some spooktacular news that you've probably already heard! Thassright - we got us some new tanks this past week and we are just itchin to fill 'em up with tasty beers for you to enjoy! ​

Staff-favorite Bullhead returns to the taps on Thursday as well! Our twist on a classic style is made to showcase the toasty breadiness of good ol' Blue Ox grains as well as some freshass fruity hoppiness from our friends at Four Star Farms, giving you the overall impression of jam on toast. This crisp, malty masterpiece ain't gonna disappoint - Prost! 

And for those of you who like to look a little farther into the future (or should I say brewture oh god I'm so sorry please don't fire me), at the end of the month we're tappin' a blast from the past with a spooktacular spin: Purple Smoothie Purple IPA!** Thassright, our bag o' misfit hops done filled up again so we cooked up a big ol' bruiser of a DIPA and then somebody - we can't remember who so we'll just put the blame for this on our cellarman Ben - asked "why don't we make it purple?" So we threw in a buncha fun purple stuff! We're releasing this beast on Friday, October 27 at 5pm to kick off this year's Halloween bash*** so come on out and get your purple on!

And! Since our Halloween bash is arch-enemies themed, we've got another beer release - one that's about as far from a purple IPA as you can get - that same dang ol' weekend! It's gonna be a nice 'n' malty (yet still dry and drinkable) brown ale that we're callin' Mo'Biscuits! And as an added bonus - since we like to cram as much stuff as possible into any given weekend - this beer is being released in cooperation with The Movember Foundation! So in a few weeks, you should come on out and twirl your mustache while cackling diabolically and/or contributing to a good cause! 

And to add to this pile o' fun, we're hosting a beer and cookie pairing with Top Shelf Cookies this Friday night! We just got the cookie menu in today and sweet baby Buzzo is it looking scrumptious. Come on down from 5-9 and start your weekend off right proper!

And! In the interest of reminding you about this more than 24 hours in advance, we're a little over a week away from the October installment of our loosely-music-themed trivia night: Audio Triviality! And since it's October, the theme will be exactly the one you'd expect (fifty in-depth questions about Glenn Danzig and only Glenn Danizig). So come on out and answer some ridiculous questions as posed by our ridiculous trivia guy!

And to end this week's post with some feelgoods, we're wrapping up our first contribution to the Black Ale Project with a $500 donation to Team RWB this week! Our beloved black ale, F.A.O., has kicked,  but we'd like to thank you all for your enthusiastic support of the projects and for giving them sweet tallboy glasses loving homes! 

But bringin' it back closer to the immediate term, we gotta tell you about our casks this week! It's Belma! Dry hopped with Belma! And then that same thing again two days later!

Back at home base, we've got another cask of Extra Naked, though this time it's hopped with Michigan Cascade and Michigan Chinook! And if that ain't enough to tantalize your tastebuds, Everett's own Clive's Jams is bringin' the heat with hot pepper jam flights! We've got heat levels rangin' from 1 to 5: Jalapeno, Habanero, Ghost, Scorpion, and Ruxin Reaper! Take that!

​Hello again! There's been a lot of big haps around here (with not nearly enough big naps) and that's just a prelude to September: The Month of Bringin' It Strong. 

We had to Photoshop in ​our cellarman Ben because he managed to get the day off and enjoy the party!

And in keeping with our promise to bring in more fun things as soon as possible, we're rollin' out Big Stupid Cans! Tomorrow! It's something we've been wanting to do since forever, and we've had most of the stuff in-house for a while, but we weren't making enough beer to be able to support such a thing. And now we (hopefully) are! ​

Anyway, if you're like most of the people we've talked to about this, you probably have a few questions. We'll do it up in Q&A format for ya: 

Big Stupid Cans?
Yeah! They're rad! 25.4 oz of fresh beery goodness! Come buy some!

Are these crowlers?
Sort of. Mostly. We went with a slightly smaller size than most Crowlers (25.4 oz instead of 32oz), but they're filled and sealed by hand, one at a time not unlike the humble Crowler (which means they have a similar shelf life to a growler - about a week). Also we can't use the word "Crowler" for legal reasons because it's a registered trademark of the Ball Corporation and they've got some pretty strict rules about how you can and can't use the term. Plus we feel like "Crowler" is an awkward word to say. 

Will you be distributing Big Stupid Cans to stores?
Nope! Sorry! We had to sign something saying we wouldn't do that before they'd let us buy the equipment (I told you their rules were strict). And also the shelf life of these cans makes them impractical at best for retail. 

Are these the same size as the Foster's cans?
They sure are! And it turns out that the people who sell Crowler machinery don't really like it if you ask them that. 

Will you be filling these to order?
We thought about it, but there was no way to make it work. The current plan is to fill a shitload at the beginning of the weekend (and possibly a backup shitload partway through the weekend) and then use that as our can allotment for the week. It might take us a little while to find the balance between not having too many left over (which would be a potential waste of beer) and not running out too quickly (which tends to piss people off), but we'll do our damnedest!

Are you going to stop doing growlers?
Absolutely not! Growlers are sweet!

And even with all this big news, we've still got the fun times rollin' this weekend! On Thursday we're gettin' our cask train rollin' with Fermento-Tainment all up in them pins (dry hopped with Empire), and we've got pimento jalapeño poppers to go along with it! After this week, we're goin' back to our regularly scheduled pizza programming, so come get while the gettin's good!

And on Friday, we've got the first of three empanada-focused installments from our new friends at Buenas! We can't wait to see what they come up with, but we're damn sure it's gon' be good!

We've also got a growler pop up over at Pemberton Farms on Friday evening! If you won't be finding yourself in Everett, be sure to come say hello in Cambridge from 5-7pm! 

And if you're the type that likes to look a little farther into the future, don't forget that in just one short week (on September 7th) we're bringin' in the next installment of our monthly, loosely-music-themed trivia event: Audio Triviality! This month's theme is The Nineties and we're kinda afraid of what that will mean, but on the plus side we went and picked up some sweet (read: remarkably stupid) prizes for the winning team!

And looking ahead a little farther, circa mid-month (on September 16th) we'll be bringin' it strong at the Mass Fermentational in Worcester! It's a fest put on by the Mass Brewers Guild, which has us pretty stoked because they've got it together when it comes to throwing a fun festival. And as an added bonus, they let us invite some out-of-state beer friends which means we'll be pouring right next to New York's own Big aLICe Brewing! This is about as close to Beer Prom as we're liable to get, so come on by and join the good times!

And bringin' things a little (very) closer to home and even more recent, we picked the winners of this month's coloring contest! It was a contentious decision, complete with dust kicking and naps (just like in baseball!), but in the end we decided that this month's winner is Christine! Come get some free stuff with our logo on it, Christine!

And we've got some runners up! You also get some free stuff, only this free stuff is a little smaller. 

And! Unrelated to coloring but still pretty rad - Eater Boston wrote a real nice article reflecting on our first year! You should read it! - Beer & Mortar: Turning One With Bone Up Brewing

And oh dang we didn't even mention beer yet. That's cool, it's not like beer is the entire reason we're here in the first place. Anyway, for the first time ever, you're gonna have eleven options to choose from! Eleven.*** Hot damn. And the list is a doozy, too - we've got our flagships, and Gnasher is still hangin' on, and we've got a couple casks of Gnasher with some cool dry hops, and we set aside a little Cosmic Showers just for Our Special Day (so if you tried to get some after it kicked, now's your chance), and we brewed Fermento-Tainment for the sole purpose of drinking it at this party, and we're releasing FAO: a beer brewed for charity that comes in a sweet new glass (if you're feelin' charitable, that is), and we're bustin' out some kegs of Beer of Truth that have been aging gracefully behind a shelf in our cold room, and we're introducing Jollybringer - our barrel aged tripel that we only have twelve gallons of!****​

A quick word about FAO Black Ale: this recipe's been on the docket for a while, but we were inspired to bring it into existence earlier this summer when we were approached by the Black Ale Project, a craft beer initiative to raise money and awareness on behalf of U.S. veterans! We couldn't think of a better reason to bring this beer to life, and we even got special glassware to go along with the release! If you buy a pint of FAO, you can purchase the glass for $2 and we'll donate it to a charity for veterans (or you can purchase the glass alone for $4 and we'll donate that)!

"This bounty of tasty beer is great and all, but what if I need a pile of snacks as well?" ​Don't you worry. Sillari's gotcha covered yet again, and this time around they're bringin' arancini! Not sure what that is? Just look up "foods stuffed with other foods" and you'll start to get an idea.

Then on Friday, Sillari's is back with more! Fancy! Pizza!

And on Saturday we're puttin' on another o' them triple sec oaked Kelly casks on because the first one will probably be empty within like two hours. 

​Then on Sunday we've got coffee and Union Square Donuts! Fancy donuts! Fancy cold brew! Coffee/beer boilermakers if you ask nicely! Probably!

​Hello again! It's been a week burstin' with bustle around here and we got heaps o' good things to prattle on about, so we gon' cut the shuck and jive and get on with the newsin'!

We weren't planning on leading with more excited rambling about our upcoming birthday party (it's in like two weeks! It's gonna be so much fun!), but we just found out some excitin'-ass news and we can't wait to tell you about it! See, we want this party to (at least partly) be a celebration of all the awesome people we've worked with over the past year, so to keep y'all full of treats during the earlier parts of the day we invited Fat Boyfriend Bakery (for beer ice cream and some pretzel-related treats) and Alex's Ugly Sauce (for hot sauce flights) and Top Shelf Cookies (for delicious cookies, some of which are made with Alex's Ugly Sauce potentially all of which can be used to make an ice cream sandwich with Fat Boyfriend's beer ice cream). We've been pretty stoked to have such a good crew comin' to hang out, and then - entirely unbeknownst to us - Alex went and made a friggin' hot sauce to be released at our party! We haven't even tried it yet and we're pretty sure we don't want to eat other condiments ever again. ​

Anyway, back to the "task at hand," those of y'all who have been in the taproom lately might have noticed our beer menu lookin' a little... beat up these days. There's reasons behind that but they're boring so we'll just cut to the part where we announce new beers!

First up is Gnasher - a grisette - which is gettin' released on Thursday! A grisette, for those of you who may not know (and in all fairness, it's a style we hadn't really heard of until a couple months before we brewed one), is pretty similar to a saison. It's a session-strength, spice-forward, smooth-sippin, thirst-quenchin', palate-pleasin' pleasure of a beer that we've been just itchin' to brew (it's been on our To Do list for, like, three months). Our take on the style is on the malt-focused side with a dash of sweetness and a (small) handful of fruity New World hops that provide a swell backdrop for all them grains. We predict you gon' enjoy. ​

And speaking of things that are happening in the future, we've gotten wind of the themes for the next two installments of Audio Triviality, our monthly music-themed trivia event! Taking a bit of a departure from this month (which some people seemed to think was "too specific"), September's theme is "the 90's." We've been told that there would be a minimum of questions about the Spice Girls (ideally somewhere in the zero range), so we'll color ourselves cautiously optimistic! And for October... let's be serious, there's really only one option for October trivia themes (three hours of questions about Glenn Danzig). 

And this is where I'd write my sassy outro if I could think of anything. Cheers!