Howdy kids! We've got a week fulla fun stuff lined up for all y'all, so read on while we get to gettin' on with all the things that are good! 

And first up on that ol' list is the triumphant return of CASK! Yes indeedy, this Thursday we're tappin' up a cask of Extra Naked (the arguably-best beer to serve on cask) and we went and crammed it full of relatively-new-to-us fruity-as-hell Zappa and it's gonna be mega tasty and you should try some! ​

Also, congrats to our November coloring contest winners! Adequate work, everyone!

Well hey there! We're gettin' all geared up for our much anticipated (by us) Thanksgiving Beer Pairings, but that'll have to wait a hot minute because weve got a buncha cool stuff we gotta talk about first!

And startin' things off with a bang or whatever, it's worth mentioning that we will be open from 12-6 on Wednesday, closed Thursday, and then open normal hours after that for at least a week. Holiday hours! Tons of fun, right? 

And speaking of nonstop holiday fun, there will be no cask this week on account of how our hours are all weird (and also this weekend is just weird in general). But! We've finally rebuilt our backstock and it's lookin' like smooth sailin' on the cask front for the foreseeable future! 
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And if you're lookin' for somethin' special on the draft list to ease your woes after not getting your cask needs met, look no further than Blood of Krampus! Remember that one? Well it turns out that we squirreled away a vanishingly-small amount of that tasty beer (which is a barrel-aged blend heavily featuring Biere de Krampus, if you hadn't put that together already) and it's on tap right now and it's pourin' until it kicks, so come getcha some while there's gettin' to be got! ​

And now it's time for the moment you've all* been waiting for: Thanksgiving Beer Pairings! For those of you who might be new around here, this has become an annual tradition that started out fairly innocently: we wanted to come up with some fun and sassy pairings for Turkey Day! But as the years have gone on, we pretty quickly ran out of normal Thanksgiving traditions to gently poke fun at, which means this list is really just a shining testament to why we don't usually get invited to parties (or rather, why we don't get invited back). Anyway, buckle on up and put on your Eatin' Pants, because we've got some Thanksgiving Magic comin' straight atcha! ​

Howdy-do, have we got some cool stuff for you! We're headed headlong into an action-packed week fulla fun times and beers and friendship and all that good shit, so read on up and check out all the cool stuff we're doin'!

And first on up, we're releasin' two new beers! And maybe a third one! And also we're doin' up back to back release shindigs for two of those beers, on account of how they're collabs we did with cool people we know and those cool people wanted to get into some shindiggery! 

Anyway the first of them dang ol' beers is Firekeeper and it's a witbier (made with chamomile and elderflower and a little lime peel) and we made it in collaboration with Everett-based Firekeeper Studios and we're doin' up a release party thing on Saturday (early) afternoon and Lala's Neapolitan-ish Pizza is gonna be settin' up and slingin' some pies and  you should come on by! 

And since we're doin' cool beer release shenanigans on Saturday, we're also releasing our collab with Grayskull Booking! They book a significant number of the cool metal shows in the area and they're throwin' a show for their birthday in a couple weeks and so we brewed a beer for it! The beer itself is a hoppy saison called Hellmouth and it comes out on Saturday!

And speaking of new/fun beers, we've got a cask this week! More to the point, our trusty Thursday cask will give you a bit of a sneak peek at an alternate-universe Firekeeper Wit (in this universe, we dry hop that beer with a whole bunch of experimental whole-leaf Galena) and it's gonna be tasty and you should drink some! ​

Ahoy mateys! Here be a fine blog, the yarest set of updates there be. So shiver them timbers and read on, because we've got good times galore for you scurvy scallywags! 

And to start things off on an appropriately anticlimactic note, we ain't got no new beers this week, not even a cask. But! That's because all of the beers we're packaging this week are for cool stuff we're doin' next week (and also cask will return next week), so you'll just have to trust us that it'll be worth the wait!

Oh! And also we're in the process of recovering from our recent, largely-unprecedented* run on Extra Naked, which means (in practical terms) that Extra Naked is gonna be back on tap starting on Thursday and all will be right with the world once again. ​

And speaking of Thursday, this Thursday is Simpsons Trivia! We're back on the whole "one season per month" train, and this month it's Season Ten! If I remember correctly, this is right around when the show starts to get really buckwild, so hold on to your hats and come hang out with us!

But wait, remember when I said earlier that we didn't have any new beers coming out this week? Well it turns out I was wrong! Or maybe lying! Who** knows! Because starting on Friday and lasting thru Sunday we're celebrating Pulpo Day! And if you're not "hip to the haps" on Pulpo Day (which is reasonable, because it's yet another holiday we made up just for the hell of it), it's the release party for our vaunted chocolate orange imperial stout which we release (in cans and on draft) every winter and which is named - you guessed it - El Pulpo! And to celebrate such an auspicious occasion, we're also releasing the barrel-aged version of the same beer (on tap and in bottles) and all weekend long we'll be tappin' up some rare cellar-aged vintages of El Pulpo (some barrel-aged, some not) and also Liz and Jared doin' a Private Tasting Session of different Pulpo vintages on Friday evening (which probably isn't sold out yet? But it's getting close) and we'll have cool food vendors all weekend - namely Lobzter King on Friday and Adrianos Tacos on Saturday and we're fully stocked on chocolate oranges behind the bar and it's gonna be a hell of a time this weekend and we hope you can join us! ​

And speaking of further fun times this weekend, we're still keepin' on hosting sushi classes with Chef Harold on Sunday so if you ain't been to one yet, come check it out! 

And looking forward a bit to next week, we've got some Friendsgiving Fun Times for you next Thursday! We've got our friends from Seabiscuit comin' out and doin' a pie popup (both savory and sweet) and each pie on their menu has a designated beer pairing on our menu because nothing says "friendship" like beer and pies and we're hostin' a Bill Murray trivia night complete with some frankly-ridiculous (even for us) prizes and anyway it's gonna be a blast and you should come out! ​

Hello again! Welcome back! How are you? We're great, thanks for asking! We've got a whole bunch more cool stuff comin' you're way, so we're gonna get on with it! 

And first up on that ol' choppin' block, after a weeklong hiatus (which we'll be repeating next week, by the way), is the triumphant return of cask! This week we're tappin' up a pin of that tasty lil' newcomer to the taproom Trial Run and since we like to "shake things up" a bit when it comes to cask, we dry hopped it with tried-and-true Belma and it's gettin' tapped on Thursday and it's gonna be tasty and you should come drink some! ​

But if you're not really in the mood for any old new beers, and you want some new new beers, then you're in luck! See, we're headed Out West for the winter version of the Decibel Beer and Heavy Metal fest in a month or so, and we just so happened to have the good fortune to get paired up with a rad death metal band (namely Of Feather and Bone) to do a collab beer for the fest, and we're givin' y'all a "sneak preview" in the taproom (on account of how we don't expect very many of you to go all the way out to Denver for a fest) and it's gonna be available in cans on - you guessed it - Saturday and it's a tasty lil' grisette* packed full of pineapple and lime and it's tasty as heck and you should come grab some! ​

And speaking of cool music-related shenanigans, we're hosting a music marketplace on Saturday! But this is no ordinary music marketplace, because it's targeted toward all y'all who make music (and/or people who want to play around with musicmaking stuff)! We've got SJC Drums here with a demo of some of their custom drums and Source Audio will be here with a buncha pedals and for those of you who want to get more into the Music Listening Experience we've got Light of Day Records in the house (again) for a "vinyl summit" which is mostly collector tips, care advice, and a general Q&A and also they'll have a vinyl popup shop if you wanna grab some vinyl and we're gonna have El Colombiano Coffee in the house slingin' some hot java and Decimation Deli will be in the house makin' sandwiches all afternoon and the point is that it's gonna be a hoot and you should check it out! ​

And while we're on about Moderate Bummer News, there will be no cask this week, which I did warn you was gonna happen at some point, and honestly it's probably for the best to not have to think about cask what with all the candy that's happening this weekend anyway. 

But! We must move forward, not backward! Upward, not forward! And always twirling, twirling toward new beer! Thassright, we've got a new beer on tap and it's on tap right now and there's actually kind of a neat story* behind this one! See, we've been encouraging (badgering) our friends at Four Star Farms to grow some galena because we think it's a cool hop and we wanted to see what the ol' New England terroir** might bring to the table for this particular hop and anyway they grew some this past year and since they only had a bit of it they decided to give it to us! Now, it was a bit of a learning experience for us on account of how these cool experimental hops were in "whole leaf" form and they showed up in a giant ridiculous brick (as opposed to the compact bags of pellets we're used to) and anyway we decided that the best thing for us to do would be to take a big chunk off that giant brick o' hops and chuck it in as the dry hop in a tasty lil' ESB and anyway it's called Trial Run and it's tasty as hell and you should drink some! ​

Hi friends! We've got a whole mess o' spooktacular stuff for y'all comin' up this week, and since the weather's startin' to take a turn for the chilly we thought it might be nice to "hunker down" with a couple "old favorites" on the beer front and anyway, read on and check out what all we got goin' on!

And then on Saturday we have several things going on! We've got our friends from Light of Day Records comin' by for a vinyl popup shop in the afternoon (which will be maybe less-than-ideal for our personal budget, but also completely worth it)! And then in the afternoon we're hosting an album release party for our friends in The Electric Heaters who just released an album called "From the Film of the Same Name" which is a bunch of songs they recorded for (possibly nonexistent?) movies (and also the art style on the album cover may look a little... familiar to y'all) and if that weren't enough there's gonna be live music by the Heaters (duh) and also Fauxmenco and it's gonna be a tonna fun! And if all that weren't enough for you, we've also got Koselig Posto postin' up with some arancini in the evening and anyway at this point there's no reason for you to not come out, so come on out! ​

Oh! And! We recently chose the winners of September's coloring contest! Adequate work, everyone! ​

Oh hi! How are you? We're just right-dandy, thanks for asking! And just why are we so ding-dang dandy, you ask? Why, it's because we've got a whole buncha cool stuff goin' on! We've got even more new beers for you (two, possibly three, to be precise) and we've got some cool-as-hell events that are just a taste of a month* that's wall-to-wall packed with fun stuff, so anyway let's get to it! 

As our trusty-as-ever first line item, we've got new beers! This week we've got another pair of wedding beers, only for these we definitely do not recommend mixing them into a beertail. I mean, do what you want, but we did warn you. Anyway, these here beers were made to celebrate the nuptials of our friends Dylan and Caroline and the beers themselves are Pobody's Nerfect - a Belgian stout whose recipe was based on one of Dylan's homebrew recipes - and Hench 4 Life - a saison brewed with lemon peel and sage - and they're both downright tasty and they're gonna be on draft starting on Saturday and you should come try them! 

And speaking of beer, cask returns this week! We're still gettin' into the "swing" of being able to have a cask on a regular basis, but we've got a tasty lil' pin of Extra Naked (with an extra dry hop charge of Chinook) on the beer engine starting Thursday at openin' time!
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And movin' right on to fun events, we've got Band Hangouts on Friday! This month we're bringin' in a buncha cool pals who played at (or were supposed to play at) our anniversary party, namely Crowfeeder and Blue Manic and Attest, and they're gonna be hangin' out and slingin' merch and drinkin' beer** and also Gordita Birria Tacos is gonna be in the house slingin' tacos and it's gonna be a good time and you should come hang out! ​

Then on Sunday (and also Wednesday) we've got our regularly-scheduled sushi classes with Chef Harold! You probably already knew about these, but they're fun as hell and we're stoked to host him, so we're gonna keep shoutin' about it! ​

And speaking of the future, next Thursday we've got Halloween Music Trivia! It's sure to be a spooktacular night full of brain busters and spooky sounds and good times and you should come out! ​