Hello again! It's time for fun times with a side of more fun times, and a heapin' helpin' of new beers!

First off, of course, is yet another update on what all we been doin' to get our new space up and ready! This time around, when y'all weren't looking, we went and installed and prepped up our brand-new floors! And also we made* and finished some furniture so we'd have something to put on them fancy floors (which we'll be takin' for a test drive this weekend, but more on that later). ​

And speaking of days, Thursday is your third and final (for now, anyway) chance to get Ruby Rye on cask! This is a beer that's made for cask drinkin', so come on by and drink it the way it oughta be drunk!

Hello friends! After all the good things and good times as of late, we have decided that it's in our collective best interest to come up with even more fun things for you to enjoy. Here are some of them!

First up on Wednesday is Round Two of our Pysanky Egg Decorating class! We did it last week, and dang but we did come up with some cool designs! Also of note, the person hosting this class is rather emphatic about pointing out that these are Not Easter Eggs. There are plenty of other occasions to decorate eggs, especially if you consider "having eggs" to be an occasion, and this fits quite nicely!

And speaking of Home Base, we're still chuggin' away with our paintbrushes and sledgehammers on our new space and we've got the pictures to prove it: 

Oh! And one more thing before we go! As soon as we open up a draft line (hint hint) we're gonna have an old favorite returnin' to our draft list: Black Witow! For those of you not "in the know" because we "haven't brewed this beer in eight months," Black Witow is a light-bodied, easy-drinkin' smooth-sipper that just so happens to be black as all heck. It can be a bit confusing at first, but it'll soon have you smitten, and it's gonna be back on tap this weekend! Huzzah, or something. 

Then on Thursday we're bringin' back an old favorite (of ours) - Ruby Rye on cask! In true English fashion, it's perfect for a night of polite murmuring and/or a soccer riot. And if you can't get your cuppa down at our digs, mayhaps you'd be pleased to know that Ruby will be making an appearance at NERAX! Woo, etc. ​

Then out in the world (if you happen to find yourselves out there instead of in the cozy confines of our taproom where you belong), we're gonna be reppin' at two different fests! First (and also second, I guess) we're gonna be at Melrose Beer + Bites, which is probably somewhere in Melrose judging from the name. ​​Then in the evening times, we'll be at Cottage Park Yacht Club in Winthrop for their Craft Brew Night!

Oh! And! It's the beginning of a new month, which means that the Smarch coloring contest winners are in! Check out all this adequacy below, and if you're one of these lovely people come on in and claim your prize!

​Howdy do, cats and kittens! It's been yet another non-stop fun parade full of meetings and hearings and paperwork and sometimes (frequently. Almost always) beer!

First up on the ol' newsfront, we crossed the first of our (probably many) hurdles on the licensing and permitting front! The short version of the story is: both the ABCC and the city liquor board approved our alteration of premises application!

The long story, as always, is here in handy-dandy Q 'n' A format:

So are you all clear to expand the taproom?
Nope!

So... what's this mean for you?
In the immediate term? Probably not a hell of a lot. We've got the permits to have alcohol in there, but there's still a ways to go before we can have people in there. If it helps, think of our set of permits like a baseball team - we just hired our goalie. 

You do know there are no goalies in baseball, right?
Of course we do, it's just been a while since we've gotten a bunch pedantic emails. 

So what's next?
Excellent question! For reasons that aren't entirely clear to us, the steps that we need to take are a closely-guarded secret in this city. In the meantime, we're just gonna keep painting every surface we touch over there!

Any idea on a timeline?
Not even a little bit! But have faith, true believers* - you'll know as soon as we do (though if it's anything like the last time we did this, we'll find out the timeline after it's already passed). ​

And on Saturday we've got more food-that-is-its-own-packaging deliciousness with the return of Spoko Pierogi!

And if you're lookin' for the "hot deets" on our "expansion progress," you'll probably be "unsurprised" to learn that it's "going slowly." It's still mostly painting and organizing, and it will be for a little ways, but we knew that. But! We're on the cusp of a potential breakthrough that might get us one step closer to finding out who we need to contact in order to find out what we need to do in order to get an appointment with the person who can tell us which forms to file in order to apply for the first of the permits we need! In other words we have a hearing with the city on Monday. Bureaucracy! 

We only signed the lease a few days ago (and there was so, so much prancing after we did), so there's still a lot to be figured out and/or planned and/or done and/or pranced about, but here's the deets we do have, presented in handy* Q 'n' A format: ​

Congratulations!
Thanks!

How much space are you adding?
We've got roughly twice as much as we used to - we took over the unit next to ours, and it's about the same dimensions as what we've got now. So... we're upgrading from Tiny to Still Pretty Durn Small. 

What specifically are you expanding?
Everything! We wanna give y'all a little more breathing room out there in the taproom, but we're equally (if not more) pinched for space behind-the-scenes (production space, cold storage, our "lab" that's just a table in the corner right now, the Nap Nook, etc.) so we're playin' it fair and doublin' up on ever'thang! More beer! More games! More seats! More tanks! Storage in any amount whatsoever! 

Also on Thursday, though admittedly a little less front-and-center for all y'all, we're celebratin' International Womens' Day (and also our involvement in/with the Pink Boots Society) by participating in the Big Boots Brewday! More to the point, Jimbo and her feisty band of fermented females (i.e. any of our female staff who happen to show up that day) are gonna brew up a big ol' batch of something tasty in celebration of this great cause!

Then on Friday we got Mr. Tamole back in the house with more tasty treats for you to eat! They're so good, you guys. ​

​And of course we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention that nonsense that's currently goin' on out in our lobby: as some of you may well have noticed, our oddly-cavernous lobby up and sprouted a new wall a couple days back - a wall that would make it awfully... convenient for a certain brewery to expand, as it were. And we'd love to tell you that we are absolutely definitely getting more space, but (as you may know if you've been following this saga for any amount of time) things ain't move quickly around here and  we've (repeatedly) learned our collective lesson vis-à-vis putting the cart before the horse, so we'll just say that we're Cautiously Optimistic at this time. If all goes well, we'll have some real news by this time next week - stay tuned, true believers!

​Hello again! We got us one a' them hollerday weekends comin' up (and if TV is any indicator, this particular holiday is Discount Mattress themed) which means we got us a jampacked lineup full of tasty beers and fun times and maybe even some treats thrown in for good measure!

Speakin' of tasty beers: as you may have noticed, our draft list is slowly shifting from "begrudgingly accepting the realities of winter" over to "pretending that it's spring in the hopes that the weather will notice," which in this case means we're loadin' up on all things bright and crisp and refreshing! More to the point, this past weekend saw the quiet(ish) release of two new beers that we've been stoked on since they were but a twinkle in the eye and a shimmy in the mash paddle: Stag and Big deLICious! ​

Oh, and! We're open on Monday from 12-8pm for President's Day! Come say hey!