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In Which We Throw a Virtual Party

2/24/2021

Howdy friends! How are you? We sure are enjoying this spate of arguably-springlike weather we're havin', and it's even more welcome considering that it's hot on the heels of the production delay* we suffered last week due to that other weird weather.** And dang, but it sure would be fitting if we were comin' up on a nonsensical holiday about dealing with nonsense...

And as luck would have it, we have just the holiday for the occasion and it's Kafka Day! This day started as a way for us to blow off a little steam after some particularly... interesting interactions with our local government (and also to celebrate the opening of our expanded brewery/taproom), but now that the world's weirdness dial seems to be permanently stuck on "fever dream," we figured we'd bring back our odd, pointless holiday (virtually this time) and it starts this weekend!

On Friday we'll be hosting a vertical tasting that includes three barrel-aged vintages of El Pulpo (plus one unbarreled version for comparison)! You can still buy tickets, so we encourage you to join us!

Tickets here: Kafka Day Session 1

Then on Saturday we're doin' up some beer and Girl Scout Cookie pairings! A ticket gets you a mixed four pack of beers, plus a buncha cookies (in four different varieties, of course), and we'll be gettin' on the Zooms on Saturday evening if you wanna eat cookies and drink beer and hang out with us!

Tickets here: Kafka Day Session 2

Then next Friday we're keepin' the party rollin' and this time it's a beer dinner with Brato! In keeping with the spirit of the holiday, the theme of the dinner is "unlikely pairings" and whoa nelly is it gonna get interesting. Brato cooked up a menu fulla fusion foods, and we dreamed up some rad beer pairings, and we're cappin' off the beers of the evening with a brand new barrel-aged beer and it's gonna be fun and you should come hang out!

Tickets here: Kafka Day Session 3

But wait! We're not done! Next Saturday we'll be doin' more beer and cookie pairings! This time around it'll be four different cookies, plus four different beers to pair with them, plus more virtual hangouts (and then probably a nap, but that part's optional)!

Tickets here: Kafka Day Session 4

* Our yeast supplier is located in Colorado, and FedEx apparently told them not to ship anything for the whole week last week because of Problems.
** Not that "not brewing for a couple days" is a big deal compared to the other problems caused by said weather, but still.

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Girl Scout Cookies and Beer? Don't Mind If We Do!

2/17/2021

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Howdy-do, have we got some good beer and good times for you!

First on up, we got a new beer comin' out on Friday! This one's a lightly hoppy lil' amber ale that also happens to be the latest installment in our Puppers Past series and it's made in the memory of (and named after) a pup who (sometimes) went by the moniker of Sir Wallington! And of course we'll be doin' some charitable givin's in conjunction with this beer - dog glasses are just $3 with purchase of some Sir Wallington, and all three* of those dollars will get donated to a dog-related charity, so come drink some beer and do some good!

And speaking of Friday, this Friday evening we're once again doin' our weekly(ish) virtual beer spotlight, and this week we're focusing on two different single-hop beers: Barb (a pale ale made with the new-to-us French hop Barbe Rouge) and Play Date (a saison made with the popular-ten-years-ago hop Ekuanot®) and we'll be comparin' and contrastin' and talkin' shop about hops and it'll be a good time and you should come hang out! Grab tickets here: Weekly Beer Spotlight

Moving right along, next weekend is the first weekend of Kafka Day! We'll be kickin' off the two-week-long (virtual) "holiday" on Friday (the 26th) with a super-limited-capacity** vertical tasting of El Pulpo (mostly barrel-aged, with one non-barreled beer for reference) and then we're followin' that up on Saturday (the 27th) with a beer and Girl Scout Cookie pairing!

And since this here Girl Scout Cookie pairing is a smidge different than what we've done in years past (back when "in person events" were a thing), it mayhaps behooves us a smidge to "give you the skinny" on what you can expect: in short, a ticket gets you a mixed four pack of beer and a pile of cookies (in four varieties) to pair with said beer! Then on Saturday afternoon we'll be firin' up some Zoom times and talking about beer and cookies and the pairing of said beer and cookies and we will understand if you get excited and eat all your cookies too soon, but it'll be fun to hang out and eat cookies so you should come hang out and eat cookies with us!

Then the weekend after next, we're comin' atcha with Kafka Day Week Two, when we'll be bringin' in Brato for a Fusion Beer Dinner on Friday and you know that they always bring the good tastes (and as an "added incentive" we'll be releasing a new barrel-aged beer just for this occasion. And also probably for a while after that because we made mind of a lot)!

Lastly, on Saturday 3/6 we'll be wrappin' things up by pairing up the other four cookie types with four different beers so you should probably also come to that in order to get the Full Cookie Experience! Tickets here: Girl Scout Beer and Cookie Pairing (Round 2)

* If you so desire, you're more than welcome to pay more for the glass and all of that money will get donated as well.
** We're definitely not keeping this small because we already drank most of the Pulpo bottles. Nope.

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In Which We Get Kafkaesque

2/10/2021

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Howdy friends! All aboard the Fun Times Express! Choo choo!

And our first stop is Mystery Shack, a mysterious new IPA that's probably coming out on Thursday afternoon unless it doesn't. And what, praytell, makes this beer so alluringly full of mystery? It's the hops. The hops are what make it mysterious.

More to the point, we have a big ol' bag of hops that slowly gets filled with odds and ends over the course of lots of brewdays (kind of like if you put the coins from your pocket into a jar at the end of the day instead of spending it. Or at least it would be like that if anybody used cash anymore), and when that bag o' misfit hops fills up, we brew a beer with it and soon you'll get to have some!

Movin' right on down the line, this Friday we're doin' a (virtual) Galentine's shindig! We'll be gettin' all up on some Zoom times and drinkin' beer and/or talkin' about beer and then there's gonna be some Galentine's trivia and it's worth mentioning that we're doing this event to support Boston GLOW (and also they'll be providing the trivia), so come (virtually) drink with us for a good cause!

50% of ticket sales will go to Boston GLOW, grab your spot here: Galentine's Trivia

And speaking of words that end with "-entines," we teamed up with our pals at Donut Villa Diner for some Valentine's Day sweet treats on Sunday! There's a whole buncha mix-n-match options to choose from, but if you really wanna go all out (and we of course suggest that you should because you earned it), you can get a bouquet of mini donuts and our made-to-be-blended pair of beers: It's Like We Finish Each Other's... ...Sandwiches! and since those beers are made with raspberry and chocolate, respectively, we also encourage you to add on our barrel-aged raspberry-and-chocolate farmhouse and anyway the point is that you can (and should!) get all the treats for Valentine's Day! Oh and also we'll be doing a (virtual) tasting of all them beers and probably a bunch of the donuts on Sunday afternoon, and you should come join us!

Build your gift set here (we're taking orders until Saturday afternoon): Donuts!

Lastly, a bit farther into the future (starting in about two weeks) is our next made-up holiday: Kafka Day! This holiday was originally celebrated in honor of the weird, nightmarish, borderline-surreal ordeal that we had to go through when finalizing/opening our brewery's expansion several years ago (with a particularly pointed nod towards our local government, though they certainly didn't notice). And then the year after that, we got to have another months-long existential crisis, only this time there was even less reason for it, but we got through it and celebrated the same damn holiday for the same damn reason, the second damn year in a row! And then pretty much right after that, the rest of the world caught up to us on the whole "surrealist hellscape" bit, and now nobody even bats an eye if we say that our made-up annual holiday is "existential terror themed."

Anyway, since this is Kafka Day, we've decided that the "holiday" is actually gonna take place over the course of two different weekends, and the first weekend is the 26th! We'll be kickin' things off with a super-intimate* vertical tasting of several El Pulpo vintages, followed up with a beer and Girl Scout Cookie pairing! Then the following week (the week of the 5th) we're partnerin' back up with our friends from Brato for another tasty-ass beer dinner and then the day after that we're gonna eat even more Girl Scout Cookies, because we can, and it's gonna be heaps of fun and you should come join us!

Tickets for each session are available here: Let's Get Kafkaesque!

* "Intimate" as in we've got a small number of tickets available. It's important to stress that this is not an erotic beer tasting. Or at least we're not expecting it to be.

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Vamlumtimes is Serious Times

2/3/2021

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Well hello there! I hope you are well. We've got a stocked docket fulla ...beers... for your pocket? I don't really know where I was going with that one. Anyway, we've got a bunch of tasty beers on the horizon and some fun times happening that happen to involve those beers, so read on!

First on up, we got some new beers comin' up! That might not be much of a surprise because I just mentioned that mere moments ago, but we're excited nonetheless! And we're in particular excited about these particular beers - above and beyond our usual "beer is good and you should drink it" reasoning - (although it bears repeating that beer is good and you should drink it) because this time around we* thought we'd bring back a cool concept that we've used for wedding beers in the past.

Long story short, we're releasing two beers that are each tasty on their own, but are meant to be blended at serving into a tasty-ass beertail! And we figured that since there was a chocolate and/or romance themed holiday comin' up, we'd brew up a light 'n easy farmhouse with a buncha raspberry in it (called It's Like We Finish Each Other's...) and also a sweet 'n smooth chocolate milk stout (named ...Sandwiches!) and they'll be out at some point on Friday either on their own or as part of a mixed four pack and you should come get some!

And speaking of Friday, this Friday we're hosting a virtual chili showdown! Long story short, Brato and Bonetown and Scott Bros Meats are all throwin' their collective chili hats into this ol' ring of fire and you get to be (one of) the judge(s)! And what's more, a ticket gets you THREE QUARTS of chili (one from each competitor), which is honestly a kind of bonkers amount of chili. And yeah, you may hear people say things like "you don't have to eat it all in one sitting" or "I'm pretty sure tickets are meant to be shared amongst two or more people" or "no seriously, chili reheats pretty well" but we're pretty sure that's quitter talk. And better(?) yet, each ticket also comes with a mixed four pack of your choosing** from Bone Up, which means that you get to drink a pint of beer per quart of chili, with one leftover as a victory beer! Anyway it's gonna be a buncha fun and - assuming the event isn't sold out already - ticket sales end today and you should come join us!

And while we're on about fun events, next Friday (the 12th) we're doing (virtual) Galentine's trivia! Boston GLOW will be hosting a trivia night full of questions all about women around the world and their accomplishments plus Liz and Jared will be hoppin' on to ramble about the two beers we just mentioned (It's Like We Finish Each Other's... ...Sandwiches!), plus half of all ticket sales go directly to GLOW, plus it'll be a bunch of fun and you should come hang out!

And speaking of Vamlumtimes, we're doin' a donut thing! Yes indeedy, we're once again partnerin' up with Donut Villa Diner and this time around they're doin' donut bouquets! Mix and match your ticket to build your perfect gift set, preorder through our shop, and pick up at the brewery day of! All gift sets include those tasty beertail beers we mentioned earlier - It's Like We Finish Each Other's... and ... Sandwiches! - plus there's an option to add on a bottle of our barrel aged chocolate raspberry farmhouse ale, Fancy Pants!

Grab your gift set here: Valentine's Donut Bouquet

And moving a little further into the future is Kafka Day! We liked doing a virtual holiday so much that we figured we'd move Kafka Day into cyberspace as well (although this is an entirely different holiday***), and we're gonna be doin' some cool events right around the first weekend in March, so mark them calendars!

* Technically this was Jared's mom's idea.
** And no, you can't "game the system" by trying to order four bottles of the most expensive thing on the menu as your four pack. We shouldn't have to state outright that the phrase "four pack" means you're restricted to beers in cans, but here we are.
*** ...which will be celebrated in almost exactly the same way.

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