100!

​Howdy all! We got some lookin' back and lookin' forward to do this week, but we ain't gonna make you suffer through all that navel gazin' before we lay out what we got on deck for the weekend!

On Thursday we're tappin' the first of two casks of Madeline the Destroyer! The first one up has a hefty handful of house favorite hop: comet! And if this cask is anywhere near as tasty as the draft version,* it's liable to be gone before we know it!

Then on Friday we got Sillari's comin' through with some new summertime eats for you! This time around they're rollin' in with wings served up in Shut Up Kelly! barbecue sauce!

And if wings ain't your thing, on Saturday we got Formaggio Kitchen dishin' up a beer and cheese pairing! Plus, we're tappin' the second cask of Madeline and this one's fortified with a moderately unreasonable amount of Galena!

Then on Sunday we're right on back to the basics with beer and board games and pretzels and pinball and patio times (plus pooches, if we're lucky). Not bad for a day's relaxin', if we do say so ourselves. 

But enough about all the fun things we got goin' on this weekend. As the more astute** of you have noticed, we've gone two whole weeks without some kind of Major Milestone, which means we must be due. And you'd be right for thinking so, because just last week we brewed our hundredth batch!

This might not sound like a lot (because it isn't), but it's a pretty big deal to us - we were fully prepared to spend our first couple years in business as a weird little brewery in the middle of nowhere that nobody really knew about*** but we were incredibly, wonderfully wrong. We've been goin' full bore since we opened our doors and we got to meet a ton of cool people (many of whom came back! With friends!) and bring on an awesome staff and partner up with a whole heap o' kickass companies out in Food Land. It's been a hell of a time, one we couldn't have done it without any of you, and we're just gonna keep on keepin' on for as long as we can keep this train rollin'.

Anyway, we thought it would be fun to "run the numbers" on the first hundred batches, so here goes: 

Number of batches brewed: 100 (duh)
Number of different beers brewed: 39
Percentage of batches that were either Wasted Life or Key Lime: 38

Amount of time, in months, we originally thought it would take for us to get this far: 25
Actual amount of time, in months: 14

Total grains used, in pounds: 21,534
Total hops used, in pounds: 425.867

Number of times Jared burned off all his arm hair while lighting one of our big ridiculous burners: 35
Number of times our big ridiculous burners have set off the sprinkers for no reason: 1
Number of times the fire department has shown up: 4
Number of times this fact has made our insurance provider very nervous: 12

Number of Cease & Desist letters received: 1

Number of hot sauces we had on hand at the start: like two
Number of hot sauces we have now, thanks to the generous patrons of Hot Sauce Nation: 52

Number of cheese pairings we've come up with for our beers: 47
Number of pairings that were individually-wrapped "cheez-type" products: at least four

Number of music pairings we've come up with for our beers: 98
Number of times anybody has noticed said music pairings: 4

Number of beers named after pets so far: 1
Number of beers named after children: 1
Number of children who were not amused by this: 1

Number of Secret Hippos in the taproom when we started brewing: 1
Number of Secret Hippos in the taproom now: 4 or 5, depending on the weather

* Protip: we're actually running low already, so you might wanna get while the gettin's possible
** Hi Jo and Jarod!
*** Which, depending on how you look at it, still isn't entirely incorrect.