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In Which We Once Again Don Our Big Boots

3/20/2019

Howdy do, cats and kittens! We're right-on rockin' and rollin' with the fun times and tasty things and that's been a dang ol' party so let's do some more of that!

First up - in case you missed it - we bid a final farewell to our beloved Estate this past weekend. But never you fret! We got more hoppy goodness comin' atcha in the form of the Royal Sampler! You regular readers out there* are almost certainly familiar with our misfit/"smoothie" IPAs, and this one follows a pretty similar format: we gathered up a whole mess o' different hops and maybe a lil' extra somethin' and jammed this big ol' beer fulla that hoppy goodness until it was burstin' at the dang seams and now we've got a beer that's got all kinds** of fruitiness all up ins! Anyway it's on tap right now and you should drink it!

Also on tap right this very minute is this year's iteration of Big Boots! Even though we have women involved in every part of Bone Up on a daily basis, once a year we wrangle a group o' ladies together to brew a batch of beer celebrating their role in our little corner of the industry, and every year it's been a bigger group! The 2019 batch of Boots is a dry hopped farmhouse ale featuring all of our favorite things: oats for a smooth body, tangy wheat, and a new-to-us hop variety: peachy 'n fruity Idaho Gem. Go on, try it!

Anyway, looking into the all-too-distant future that is Thursday, we're tappin' up a cask of a beer that was friggin' made to be run through the ol' beer engine: Pat Signal! And to celebrate its first appearance on cask (out of three, if you count NERAX, which we do), we're puttin' on the cask that's been fortified with Amandine-soaked oak chips! We fully expect that Pat himself will be able to sense this cask being tapped, and will materialize at the bar the moment it's ready.

Also on Thursday, we're continuin' our Month O' Trivia with more trivia! This time around, it's all centered around old-school cartoons, so if you cut your chops on them Looney Tunes and/or Merrie Melodies, come on out and show off your smarts!

Then on Friday we got us another hand pie day with more pastelitos from Matilda's!

And if you're lookin' for some meat in your mouth on Saturday, we've got the Bacon Truck back up in for all your cured meat needs!

And then. Lastly but far from leastly. This Sunday is the return of Chicken 'n' Waffles! If you wanna get your sweet 'n savory fix for brunch times, search no further (but I'd recommend getting here early, they sold out right quick last time)!

Oh, and we saved the best news for last! We! Are! Hiring! If you'd like to join our wonderful bartending/event team on a part time basis, send your resume and cover letter over to us (Liz and Jared) at info@boneup.beer!

* Both of you.
** OK fine, maybe not all kinds, but at least several kinds. Maybe as many as 20 kinds.

In Which We Send Out the Pat Signal

3/12/2019

Howdy and hello! We've got a weekend that's jam-packed* fulla fun and/or tasty times and a draft list that's jam-packed fulla new beers, so here we go!

The first new addition to our draft list is the Pat Signal! We're full-on preppin' for a lil' ol' festival that's comin' up in a few weeks (namely NERAX, which just so happens to be our favorite fest 'round these parts) so we did up a beer that's gonna be a surefire solid sip o' suds on cask and we named it in honor of the biggest cask fan ever to grace one of our barstools (hi Patrick!)! Anyway, Pat Signal's a lightly roasty, hella bready lil' brown ale that's just gonna tear up that beer engine, I tell ya what, but you ain't gotta wait around for the cask because it's on draft and I'll be durned to heck if that ain't a tasty tipple too!

Dananananananana dananananananana patmaaaaan, patmaaan...

And if you're more a fan of the heavy hitters and/or beers that are moderately ridiculous, we also tapped Fancy Pants! We said goodbye to our beloved Lazy Pants and got all kindsa fancy with a wild ride through Flavor Towne** that's just downright tasty!

So fancy.

Speaking of tasty, this Thursday we've got the return of Haley on cask! This time around it's no muss, no fuss - just Straight Up Haley Goodness and we gon' drink it.

And if you're lookin' for something to do with your hands/brain while you gulp down a bunch of Haley, you should come on out to Simpsons Trivia starting at eight!

Then on Friday we're keepin' the hand-pie-Friday train rollin' with the return of our pierogi friends from Spoko!

Blessed.

Then on Saturday we've got a whole host o' treats for y'all, including another dang new beer! That's right - this Saturday is the Official Launch Day for the beer that some of y'all got to see in Sneak Preview Mode last week: Oink! Brewed with bacon in mind, Oink! is a wheat beer made with malts that were smoked over bourbon barrel staves and oh man is it so smoky and delicious.

I bet it would go pretty well with bacon...

Also on Saturday, we've got the Bacon Truck comin' by all afternoon with meat treats! I bet those meat treats would go pretty dang well with Oink!

And if you're not the meat type but you still wanna get your grub on, we've got Farmhouse Burger Co. slingin' veggie burgers startin' at six!

AND. Lastly. If you wanna escape the green-beer amateur-hour crowd on Sunday, we're bringin' in new-to-us Jim's Kabob with falafel and hummus and other Mediterranean treats!

You know. Traditional Irish fare.

* Or should I say HAM packed! (... i'll see myself out)
** Is that phrase copyright Guy Fieri? Wouldn't surprise me if it was.

In Which We Meet a Snail and a Mammoth

3/6/2019

Well hello again, one and all! How are you? We're great, thanks for asking! We had a dandy ol' time on Kafka Day and we sure hope you did too! We appreciate you braving the "storm of the century" (which ended up being some flurries and little else) to come drink fancy beer with us, so we hope you enjoyed it!

We love you guys.

And speaking of fancy beer, this weekend we said a (temporary) goodbye to a few old friends - FAO and Joybringer, to be precise - and while we're sad to see them go, we're stoked as all get out to tap some new (and/or new-ish) stuff!

First on that there list - on tap right now - we're keepin' Melvin the Mammoth on tap for a spell! Melvin's a barleywine that was a doozy to make, but that violent fermentation gave us a delicious, malty reward. We've only tapped this caramelly ol' boozebag in fits and spurts in the past, and we figured that now's a great time to let it stretch its legs a bit and make some new friends!

Look at that color.

Also on tap right now is Snail the Pale! We sure do love us some pale ales, so we made one and it's hella tasty! Come drink some with us!

Pictured: your RDA of deliciousness.

And speaking of new beers, we've got a couple rad things up our figurative sleeves for the coming weeks and months. We're preppin' up to bid a bittersweet farewell to a few things in the near future (notably Stone Valley and Lazy Pants and - slightly less soon - Joyrider), but we're all kinds of prepared up in here! Lazy Pants will be succeeded by its, um, fancier cousin: Fancy Pants! And our beloved Stone Valley will be replaced by a brown ale whose details are still very hush-hush, so that's all we gon' say for now. And! Next week we're gonna have The Bacon Truck up in here slingin' cured meats, so we brewed up a smoked wheat beer (named Oink!, naturally) to go with it!

ANYway, getting back closer to now, let's talk casks! Since y'all out there in Cask Land are so good to us, we're givin' you a sneak preview and tappin' up the cask o' Oink! on Thursday! We have it on good authority that this beer's gonna be tasty as heck, but you ain't gotta take our word for it 'cuz you can try it your dang self!

Oink oink oink!

Speaking of Thursday, we're nigh-on approaching this month's installment of Audio Triviality! The theme this month is "beer," though I can't imagine where he would have gotten the idea to use such an outlandish topic.

But speaking of trivia, March is (apparently) The Month of Trivia! We've got trivial goings-on every damn Thursday this month (and, on further reflection, most of them are about cartoons in some way or another), so come on out and flex them (useless) knowledge muscles all dang month!

We like cartoons, 'k?

Movin' right on into the weekend, on Friday we got our friends from Matilda's dishin' up the fried treats! You should come eat some treats, you've earned it.

And while we're on about fried treats, on Saturday we've got Three Kitchens Catering in with more wing flights! Get it? Wings? Flight? Anyway these chickens probably won't be flying anywhere because we're going to eat all of them.

Ya dig?

Anydangways, since we're just startin' to get all that lousy Smarch weather all up ins, that means that we've got coloring contest winners to announce! And it was a tough one this month because we had some Extremely Adequate entries, but we did our best and here's what we picked!

First place to... "Steph's Roommate!" Great jorb!

Our runners up!

In Which a Saga Comes to an End

2/26/2019

Dang on a thang, friends, it's really real! We finally did all the buildout and cut through all the red tape and redid half of the buildout because the people in charge changed their minds about what is/isn't required and painted everything and spiffed things up and now our definitely-not-a-hellish-nightmare expansion is complete! We done it! We've got more space and more seats and we've now got the ability to do a bunch of weird one-off events that we couldn't do previously (because they'd overrun our tiny taproom and not everybody is down with that) and we're just ever so stoked!

March 2018

June 2018

Today!

Right now!

Can I have beer now?

Yes. Yes you can.

And we got some party plans for y'all on this fine festive weekend, but also some of those are things that we were gonna do anyway because we only had, like, six days to plan all this stuff so we're just slappin' the word "party" on some the normal fun times we bring you (but don't you worry, there's also Bigger Better Fun Times too). Anyway, the point is that Thursday is Lego Night! Remember* how fun it was to play with Legos? Well it's still fun as heck so we got us a whole crapton of them there buildy blocks and we're gonna share! That's pretty much the deal for now, but we've got some Big Ideas all up in our brains that we'll be trottin' out later on if this is a hit (for instance, Jared keeps talking about "Lego Olympics" and then refusing to elaborate), so come on out and build some stuff!

It gon' be fun

And what to drink while you build tiny worlds and then probably spill beer all over them? Probably the cask of Haley that we're tappin'! What's Haley? Only the newest addition to our Puppers Past series, and this time it's a sweet stout that's been rested on some oak spirals that fill it fulla dry-yet-chocolatey goodness! And this particular cask happens to be spiked with even more oak in the form of Irish-whiskey-soaked oak chips! Party on!

This beer may look imposing, but really it's just a hug in a glass.

Anyway, back to all that giddy dancing around because of our expansion: in true Bone Up Style, we're takin' this occasion as an excuse to celebrate, so celebrate we shall! We went diggin' around through the ol' Barrel Hold for some special beers to tap and we grabbed some Quadless Leg Monster (the last ever keg!) and some barrel-aged El Pulpo and some Melvin and then we figured we should probably make y'all a new special blend since you've been so dang patient and/or supportive during our never-ending expansion so now we've got a whole bunch of Fancy Pants! It's a big ol' barrel aged farmhouse ale with a buncha raspberries and hibiscus and all kinds of deliciousness. And you get to drink some!

17oz mugs of this? What could possibly go wrong?

Back to the task at hand, in honor of the fun times we had with our local government over the past weeks and months, we're callin' this celebration Kafka** Day! And since it's Kafka Day, it's really gonna be two days! That means that startin' on Friday and continuing on to Saturday at closing time, we're gonna be slingin' special beers and gettin' merry and you should join us!

This is our last ever keg of Quadless. Damn. Goodbyes are sad, but the fact that it's even pouring means we got a real reason to celebrate. Come out and salute the new space!

And since no party is complete without snacks, we've got snacks! On Friday we've got the folks from Boston Jerky slingin' dried meats, then on Saturday we have new-to-us Teri-yummy and Sweetteeth Baking (because you gotta have cake)! Then on Sunday as a "cool down" after all the cake, we've got Bird's Nest in here doin' what they do best, and what they do best is fried manicotti!

Presented to you: a miscellaneous assortment of good times!

* If you're anything like us, you're remembering back to, like, last week.
** From Merriam-Webster: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born German-language writer whose surreal fiction vividly expressed the anxiety, alienation, and powerlessness of the individual in the 20th century. Kafka's work is characterized by nightmarish settings in which characters are crushed by nonsensical, blind authority. Thus, the word Kafkaesque is often applied to bizarre and impersonal administrative situations where the individual feels powerless to understand or control what is happening. (For example, a brewery expansion)

In Which Things! Are! Happening!

2/19/2019

Well hello there! I hope you're all rested up from your long weekend full of beer and snacks, but in case you need a regular-sized weekend full of beer and snacks, we went and got one ready for you!

And for our first "order of business," for those of you who didn't "get the memo," we've got Estate on tap! Estate, if you ain't "in the know," is a delightful-ass Super IPA made with a whole mess of ingredients (specifically wheat and hops) grown by our friends at Four Star Farms! Party times! Friendship times! Friendship party!

Frens!

Anyway, movin' on and movin' forward, we're downright chuffed to let you know that this week's cask is a new favorite around here: Bone Machine! It's a right tasty beverage in its own right, but we figured we'd give it a little extra somethin' in the form of some Masscade! It's gettin' tapped on Thursday, so come get while there's gettin' to be got!

Mmm... cask machine...

And speaking of Thursday, this Thursday is also (apparently) gonna be a big day in the form of Harry Potter Trivia! And to "sweeten the deal," we're bringin' in our friends from Deep Cuts Deli to sling some sammiches and other treats! And while we're at it, it might behoove us to issue a word to the wise: there have been some rumblings that this might be a popular event, so we do suggest getting here early if you're hellbent on participating (and doubly so if you prefer to be seated whilst doing so).

Accio Sandwiches!

Anyway, gettin' on to the rest of the dang ol' week(end), this Friday we're welcomin' in new-to-us Hooked Fish Shop to come on by and deliver us some delicacies from the briny deep!

Then on Saturday we've got a different set of sandwich friends comin' by and they're packin' pastrami! Last time we had Beantown Pastrami in here they just started adding pastrami to other foods all willy-nilly like some kind of chaotic force of Delicious and we're just straight-up stoked to have them back!

And did we mention that as of this morning, we've now got room for 98? More details next week...

Vamlumtimes is Serious Times

2/11/2019

Hi kids! We're back in action once again with tasty beers and tasty snacks and good times and friendship and a "holiday" that definitely isn't total bullshit and special hours for an actual holiday and just all kindsa good stuff, so buckle on up!

First up, on tap right now is our collaboration beer with our friends at Small Change: Bone Machine! It's a straight-up no-fuss farmhouse brewed with a heap o' local ingredients and a bigger heap of friendship - bright 'n smooth with lovely notes of candied lemon, light spice, and a dry finish! You will enjoy it.

Coming soon: a picture of all of us enjoying it together. We just couldn't wait!

Next up, on tap soon, but definitely by Sunday is Lazy Pants! If you've ever wondered (possibly out loud, possibly to nobody in particular) why chocolate beers can't be light-colored, then you're in luck! And if you were hoping we'd take that idea and then add a whole crapton of raspberry to it, you're even more in luck! Now the only unanswered question is "how much of this can I drink in one sitting before the people I'm with get kind of grossed out?" and let's just say that we believe in you.

Lazy Pants has already inspired clever beertail names such as Kelly's Pants, Extra Pants, Wasted Pants, Doom Pants, Best Pants, Joy Pants... the list goes on. Ask for one at the bar and say your prayers!

And while we're talkin' about drinking lots in one sitting, we gots to give you the lowdown on this week's cask, on tap Thursday! Kelly is once again gracing us with her presence, and this time she's fortified by Rock 'n' Rye soaked oak chips!

Definitely not the same picture we used last week

Also on Thursday is a very romantical edition of Simpsons Trivia, paired up with heapin' helpin' of tamales! Trivia starts at 8, but you'd best get here before then because last month there was a medium seat crisis. Plus, tamales!

P.S. As our Valentine to you, we may just tap Lazy Pants a couple days early. Maybe.

Then on Friday we're celebrating everybody's favorite February holiday: National Hippo Day!* And in honor of this holiday that we definitely didn't just learn about a couple days ago, we've got Matilda's back in the house!

Then on Saturday to satisfy your sweet tooth after all those hippo-related festivities we're bringin' in Top Shelf Cookies to sling their delectable treats all afternoon!

Movin' on to Sunday, we've got a whole dang host of good stuff lined up for you! That's the Official Launch Day for Lazy Pants (which you may remember from several paragraphs ago) and we're doin' a chicken 'n' waffles brunch with our friends from Brato, and we're gonna have some Girl Scouts in here to satisfy all your cookie needs! If there's such thing as too many good times, we may be headed in that direction.

And. And! Since there's a real-ass holiday this weekend (not to discount the ones based on hippos and/or cardboard cutouts of hearts) we are open on Monday the 18th from 12-6 for President's Day, so come on out and while away your Monday off, you earned it!

Well, you *probably* earned it.

* If you don't know why this particular pachyderm is pertinent, perhaps you ought ask at the bar - you're in for either a treat or a frustrating evening, depending on your tastes.

In Which We Get Joyful!

2/5/2019

Howdy howdy once again, one and all! It's a big ol' week packed fulla fun and nonsense and fun nonsense, so we gon' cut the chitter chatter and get on with it!

First and/or foremost, we've been plowin' through the blink-and-you'll-miss-'em Horatio Day beers and we've settled on something that's got a bit more volume to back itself up: Joyrider! That sucker's on tap right now and it's gonna be around for longer than, say, barrel-aged El Pulpo which was here for roughly the duration of a firm handshake and a curt goodbye (but we do still have it in bottles!), so come on out and get joyful!

Good taste!

But speaking of beers that aren't long for this world, it behooves us to let you know that we're down to the last bits of El Pulpo (the regular kind) and Doomrider, so if you're partial to these particular tipples we might suggest you get while there's gettin' to be got!

And just in case you *do* miss 'em on draft, a) please stop crying, and 2) just come buy the bottles. We've still got a couple cases of each! (Well, the El Pulpo bottles are all the barrel aged version. Oh NOO.)

"But wait," you say, "if there are beers about to kick, does that mean you've got new beer(s) on the horizon?" And the answer to that is, of course, a resounding Yes! We! Do! There's some pretty rad stuff comin' up, including our collaboration brew with Small Change (and also an estate-grown Super IPA for when we polish off the rest of that Cryptic Nonsense) and probably a couple other things too, so keep them eyes peeled!

Beer fueled by friendship and good vibes!

Anyway, if you've been around us for any dang ol' amount of time you'll hear us sayin' that the world needs more Kelly on cask, so we've got Kelly! On cask! Starting Thursday!

Kelly!

Speaking of Thursday, this Thursday is February's installment of Audio Triviality! And to "sweeten the deal" we're also gonna have Mr. Tamole slingin' tamales all evening! So if you're lookin' for good beer and good times and good grub and good tunes and probably some bad puns, come on by!

The theme is "Animals." To find out what that has to do with anything, you'll just have to come on by!

Then on Friday we're gettin' the meat train rollin' with Beantown Pastrami! And from the menu items we've seen, they've gotten pretty creative* with their sliced meats, so it's bound to be tasty times!

Come hungry - pastrami sammies, hot dogs, and chili dosed with extra meats are up on the menu!

Then on Saturday our friends from T'ahpas 529 are comin' by to dish out some delicious dishes because Saturdays are made for snacking! Check out this menu!

Delicious snacking: imminent

And if you happen to be a bit further south on Saturday - say, somewhere on or near the Cape - we'll be reppin' strong at the Dark of Winter Black Ale Fest at Cape Cod Brewing! And as you might have guessed, this fest is being thrown in collaboration with the Black Ale Project, which not only means lots of great dark beer (which, if you ask us, don't get enough love), it also means supporting a good cause! Sounds pretty rad to us, which is why we'll be there and why you should be too!

Tickets here: Dark of Winter Fest

* Assuming your definition of "creative" includes "adding pastrami to other, non-pastrami foods" and honestly if that's not the case then maybe you should seriously reëxamine your life.

New Beers and Tasty Treats!

1/29/2019

Oh, hi there! Welcome back! We hope you're well and we hope you want/need all kinds of new beers from us, because we have got all the new beers on tap!

First up on that there list, tapped not long after its cask went on, is Best! If you're a fan of easygoing beers you can gulp by the pintful, this smooth 'n' fruity little bastard is just the thing for you!

We totally didn't intend to use this pun, but it really is the best...

Speaking of new beers making their debut on cask, we very nearly did that a second week in a row with Stone Valley Amber! But we didn't! It's on tap right now and the cask is gettin' tapped on Thursday! Ain't much by way of funny business with this one, we just wanted a regular ol' amber, so we forged one in the fires of friendship!

Specifically, our friendships with Stonepath Malt and Valley Malt.

But wait! There's more! We've got another new beer that's really only "new" in the sense that it wasn't on tap this time last week, and that's Buffalo Nickel! But beware, we're currently pouring what we've got left from Horatio Day, and we ain't got much left (and it'll soon be followed by similar amounts of 2017 El Pulpo, Barrel-aged El Pulpo, Melvin the Mammoth, and then a whole shitton of Joyrider).

Oh, and did we mention that we have a buncha bottles of this goodness too? Guaranteed to give you the strength of a buffalo!

And if you're lookin' for something to do whilst drinking all these tasty beers, we've got our first-ever taproom Jenga tournament this Thursday! We're gonna order up some pizzas and gather up a buncha stupid prizes and pit our dang wits against each other in what is (apparently) everybody's favorite taproom game, so come on out and get competitive!

P.S. Free pizza (with a pour) on Thursday, because we love you!

And if you're less of the "competition" type and more the "eating" type (which we can certainly relate to), we got some tasty foodstuffs lined up for the weekend!

On Friday we've got Eat More, Mexican back in the taproom slingin' their delicious-ass burritos! Then on Saturday we've got Bird's Nest in for their second go-round with a pile o' Italian food!

Tasty times!

Lastly but not leastly, we've got January's coloring contest winners! We had a lot of mostly/entirely adequate entries this month, which makes our jobs harder in the best possible way (one might say that we get "unreasonably excited" when it's a Good Coloring Month), but anyway we've managed to winnow it down to a winner and four runners-up, so come on out and collect them prizes!

Great job, Rachel!

Our adequate runners up!

In Which There Are Lyft Discounts and Cookie Flights

1/22/2019

Hello again, dear reader(s)! We sure did have a grand ol' time weatherin' that, uh, weather that we had, but now it's "back to the grind" and our grind is fun things!

First on the docket is something that has managed to provoke a pretty stunning amount of sass: discount Lyft rides! Basically you get $2 off a ride if you're traveling from our brewery to another brewery nearby (or vice versa), and that prompted half of the universe to crawl out of their internet-holes and point out that it would be ridiculous to get a ride from us to Night Shift (which, yes, it would be, except on days when the dang ol' temperature is in the single digits KAREN).

Also, there's a themed bench for some reason? Anyway, discounted rides! Woo!

Movin' on towards that whole "weekend" thing that seems to create such a stir around these parts, we're tappin' a cask on Thursday for our regularly-scheduled Thursday Cask Tapping, and it's Best!* You probably ain't too familiar with Best on account of we ain't tapped it yet, but it's a kinda-sorta nod to an old-school British style** that's manifested in the form of a smooth, tasty pale ale! Anyway, we dry hopped the cask version with Rakau and it's gonna be so good!

Probably!

Movin' on and so on, this Friday we're bringin' back the pastelitos from Matilda's! If you can't get enough of that fried goodness (and goodness knows we can't), come on out and get your munch on!

Pictured: munchins.

Then on Saturday we got the good folks from Brato back all up ins for - you guessed it - wing flights! You might call us crazy for having two different people do two different wing flights two weeks in a row, but that would mean you're not thinking in terms of getting a flight of wing flights. Wing! Flights! Wing! Flights! Wing! Flights!

Plus, these wings won't have any garbage winter weather attached to them. Probably. Maybe.

And lastly but far from leastly, the Sunday event that you've all (apparently) been waiting for: Girl Scout Cookie Pairings! We spent a long time hunkered over flights with piles of cookies nearby, trying every combination we could think of to come up with the very best beer and cookie pairings under the sun. And in the end? It turns out that we all have a two-box max on Girl Scout Cookies before we start to feel pretty gross (and let's be honest, most of us made it well into that third box before realizing this). Anyway, you don't have to take our word for it - come on out and find out for yourself!

See you soon!

* Speaking of things that result in sass, this beer name has resulted in quite a bit of sass.
** Specifically "best bitter," a style whose history is hella intertwined with that of pale ale. We went with "pale ale" as the style here because a) pretty much nobody knows what the hell a "best bitter" is (people usually assume "bitter" is a descriptor); and 2) this ain't exactly a historically accurate representation, and people who do know old school British beer styles tend to care about that sort of stuff.

A Blog About Beer!

1/16/2019

Howdy, friends! It's lookin' like we're settlin' into the right chilly part of this winter, so we gathered up all the good tastes and good times we could to make it worth your while to brave the cold on this here long weekend!

And speaking of it being a long weekend, we'll be open from 12-6 on Monday, January 21st for all your still-putting-off-the-laundry-even-though-you've-had-four-days drinkin' needs!

Speaking of drinkin' (though aren't we always?), remember last week when we talked a lil' bit about our newest Super IPA: Cryptic Nonsense? Well it's on tap now and it's tasty as all heck, so come on out and see for yourself!

And while we're on about new beers, we've got a couple new beers waitin' in the wings, just itchin' for something* to kick so's they can go on tap, and the first of those is Best! In short, Best is an easygoing, locally-sourced, fruity/earthy, straight-up tasty lil' pale ale and we do predict you gon' enjoy!

In addition to that beguiling little Pale, we're also anxiously awaiting the day that we get to tap Stone Valley! It's been far too long since we've had some delicious amber, so we gathered up a buncha good stuff from some of our friends (Stone Path, Valley Malt, and of course Four Star Farms) and made a delicious amber!

But gettin' back to things that you can drink in the more-or-less immediate future, we're tappin' our weekly cask this Thursday and it's an old favorite poppin' back in with a twist: Shut Up Kelly! with oak chips that've been soakin' in Queequeg Spiced Rum! It's mighty good, I tells ya what.

Speaking of good things, we've got Matilda's back on Friday! You already know the deal with these fine folks: hella tasty food made by good people. What more could you ask for?

Then on Saturday we've got 3 Kitchens Catering comin' in and doing wing flights! Wing! Flights! Wing! Flights! Wing! Flights! Anyway in case you haven't guessed, we're pretty stoked about wing flights.

Also on Saturday, if you're the travellin' type (or if you live a bit farther away, whichever), our beer is gonna be featured in the Saltbox Kitchen Brewed for a Cause dinner! This event is hosted in conjunction with the Black Ale Project, which means a chunk of the proceeds go to charity; so you'll get good eats for a good cause, which sounds like a win-win in our book!

Lastly but far from leastly, we've got Mr. Tamole back in the house this Sunday! He's been through the taproom more than a few times, but there's a damn good reason we keep bringin' him back in, so come on out and eat some tasty food with us!

*Hint: Marimba, FAO