And speaking of Thursday, Thursday is Simpsons Trivia night! The theme for the month is Season Six and we're really gettin' in to the sweet spot for the show's best years, so come on out and reminisce with us and/or win some stupid Simpsons-themed prizes!

And then headin' into the weekend we've got a hella delicious lineup of eats scheduled for y'all, with HotChix and Blanche's Ice Cream in the house on Friday followed by Wild Fox Pierogi on Saturday and then BiscuitDrop bringin' brunch on Sunday and it's gonna be tasty times!

Also on Saturday we've got New Wave Yoga happening before the taproom opens (at 10:30, specifically), so if you wanna get your Vinyasa on to the sounds of some new wave, dark wave, and post punk, then come on out! And as an added bonus, the ticket price includes a beer, which means that you can use "doing something healthy" as an excuse to have breakfast and/or lunch beers, and isn't that the true meaning of exercise?

Grab tickets here: New Wave Yoga 6/11

And then gettin' to some coll stuff we've got goin' on next week, on next Tuesday we've got Matt Heaton here for Surf Guitar Happy Hour and he'll be accompanied by a live drawing session from artist Dirk Tiede. If you're not really sure what that might mean (we were admittedly a little confused the first time we went to one of these), Matt will be playing a bunch of surf rock and while he's doing that (since watching somebody play guitar might not be the most scintillating activity) Dirk (who is the artist/author of the graphic novel Paradigm Shift) will set up a projector so you can watch him draw a bunch of stuff.* It's a lot of fun! ​

Howdy-do kids and squids! We're comin' atcha with a buncha fun stuff and tasty treats and - of course - delicious, delicious beer, so check out all this stuff we got goin' on! 

And then lookin' forward all the way to next week, we've got a solid lineup all weekend: 

• On Thursday we'll be hosting Black Sabbath trivia
• On Friday we've got Wicked Retro in the house with a whole bunch of classic video games
• On Saturday we're doin' a spring market with a bunch of art vendors (namely KT Lane and Ivonne Blanco and our own Matt Darcy) and live music (courtesy of The Electric Heaters) and snacks (from The Nada Cart) and it's gonna be hella fun! 

Oh! Lastly! Since we're talking about bands: it may seem a little early for us to start rambling on about our anniversary party (it's never too early** to ramble about our anniversary party) but we (finally)(we think) locked down the band lineup!

As some of you may recall, the first of our anniversary parties had but one band: The Weisstronauts (who have played our party every year since, which is kind of amazing). And then the year after, we said to ourselves "that was fun, but what if we added more" and of course that was a great idea so we went up to four bands that year, and seven bands the next. And then we realized that seven bands in one day was maybe a bit too much, so (after a "socially distanced" in-between year) the next time (which would be last year) we decided to have nine bands, but spaced out over three days (and eleven sets, since some played twice).

But! We ran into a hiccup again, which is that since we brew a beer for each band at the anniversary, trying to cram nine new beers into our schedule during the middle/end of summer was maybe a bit taxing in terms of both time and space.

So! After some careful thought and some less-careful getting carried away with ourselves we decided that this year we're gonna be hosting fifteen bands! And since, assuming my math is right, fifteen is more than nine, we've decided to try this "planning ahead" thing that people keep telling us we should be doing (and so far it still feels like a scam? IDK) which is to say that we'll be releasing all these beers on a rolling basis throughout the summer (making sure to set some aside for the party, of course) and anyway we haven't made the Formal Announcement of the band lineup yet so you'll be seeing some band names come through in drips and drabs (with some surprises and many non-surprises) but rest assured it's in motion and keep them eyes peeled for Anniversary Beers! 

First and foremost we gotta start with a lil' tidbit what we shoulda mentioned last week, which is to say that the other half of our collab with GrandTen is out now! For those of you who don't remember tidbits from blog posts that we wrote four years ago, we did a cool collab with our friends at GrandTen Distilling in Southie - they took one of our beer recipes (specifically Oh My!) and made a whiskey out of it (including our house yeast, which is pretty rad to us) and we took one of their whiskey recipes (specifically their single malt, which is delicious) and made a beer out of it (it actually became all or part of several early Critters series releases on account of how we aged it in a few different barrels) and anyway that whiskey is out now!

​And just to clear up any (more) potential confusion before it might happen, we do have to say that no, we are not selling whiskey at Bone Up. But! We have it on good authority* that it's downright exceptional and it's available right now at the distillery and they ain't got a whole hell of a lot of it, so if that sounds like your jam then you might wanna get a move on! ​

And then lookin' a little farther into the future, we've got some more cool stuff! 
-on Friday 5/20 we've got T. Bloodhound comin' by to play a live acoustic punk set
-on Thursday 5/26 we're hosting a sure-to-be-excellent Wayne's World Trivia
-and on Friday 5/27 we're doin' more band hangouts, featuring Edict and Black Palm
and anyway I'll ramble a bit more about those in the coming weeks, but the point is to keep them calendars peeled because we've got a whole mess of cool stuff comin' up! ​

​Oh! And! We'd like to say a big ol' thanks to everyone who came out to our Dungeons & Drinks festivities this past weekend! It was a whole buncha fun times fulla nearly-impossible trivia and video games and D&D and comics and art and we're super grateful for all the artists/authors/DMs/video game enthusiasts that came out (not to mention all you fine folks who enjoyed the fruits of their labors) and we hope to do something like it again soon! And as an "added bonus," one of the comic book authors/artists left behind a stack o' comic books for anyone who wants one, so if you wanna check out Head Lopper, we've got a bunch of 'em at the bar!

And movin' on into Fun Times territory, we've got a geektacular spate of events lined up for you this weekend and we're callin' it Dungeons & Drinks! 

The weekend is kickin' off on Thursday with some Star Wars themed trivia! But it's no ordinary Star Wars trivia - this one focuses mostly on music! We're curious to see whether or not that will just be 16 questions whose answer is "John Williams," but you'll have to come play to find out! 

And then on Friday it's video game night! We've got Wicked Retro in the house settin' up a bunch of classic consoles and settin' 'em to Free Play mode, plus we'll have Wicked Gaming and Lax Card Collectibles in the house selling games and trading cards and collectibles and all sorts of cool stuff! 

And then on Saturday we're doin' it up (miniature) comic convention style! We've got a buncha comic artists and/or authors (and at least one non-comic artist) settin' up tables (full list of attendees/details here) and we're settin' up a D&D one-shot in the side room (which is, unfortunately, already full) and we'll have Hot Chix in the house slingin' tasty chicken sandwiches and it's gonna be fun as hell and you should come hang out! ​

And while we're goin' on about fun events, we can't forget to mention our recurring fun times! We're still keepin' on with the sushi classes on Wednesdays and Sundays and we're doin' our regular Barks & Brews Pint Parties (where we encourage you to swing by with your pups and we donate a portion of the day's sales to a dog-related charitable cause - this month it's Buddy Dog Humane Society in Sudbury) on Sundays and Tuesdays and there's ice cream on Tuesdays (because your dog isn't the only one who deserves treats) and we'll probably be adding more fun stuff as it gets nicer out, so keep your eyes peeled! ​

And while we're talkin' about things that are tasty, we're excited to announce our newest band collab (and our first new beer release in, like, a week): Man Overboard! This one's a collaboration with our new friends in North Star the Wanderer and when we originally met with them they had a buncha big-picture ideas about the beer evoking images of storm-tossed seas and all that, and we're all about stuff like that so we brought them in for a blending session (because of course this beer had to be a barrel-aged blend, what else could it be?) and after a whole dang bunch of tasting and blending and debating the merits of one blend vs. another (which honestly involved less shouting than you might expect), we arrived at this tasty-ass blend that's on tap and in bottles on Friday and you should come try some!  ​

And dang but if that ain't the most of it on the beer front, on account of how this is the first week in a dang ol' while that we don't have a new beer release!

Oh wait no oh crap that's right! I totally forgot! This week (specifically Friday, though it'll probably be on draft at some point on Thursday) marks the glorious return of Henrietta to the beer menu! Our beloved spring/summer seasonal - a farmhouse brewed with, just, so much hibiscus - is gonna be on tap and in cans and you should come drink some! ​

And speaking of new-to-us fun times in the taproom, this Friday we're hosting our first-ever comedy show! We've got Al Ghanekar and friends settin' up in the side room and it's gonna be a barrel o' laughs so if you wanna get your giggle on, grab a ticket and come out! 

And movin' further into the weekend, we've got tasty food! More to the point, we've got HotChix in the house on Saturday and they'll be cookin' up some of their delicious chicken sandwiches until they run out, so come grab one! ​