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In Which We Tap Alllll the Casks

3/28/2017

Heyo! It's been another bumper week around here and we got the beat up draft list to prove it. Yes, the ol' chalkboard is lookin' a little worse for the wear these days, but never you fret! We're keepin' on rampin' up on our cask program so's there's always a lil' somethin' new, plus we got a couple old favorites* comin' back, and we've got an exciting (to us, at least) project comin' up that'll result in some delicious drinkables for you down the line!

First up, as previously mentioned, we got us another cask comin' on this week! And next week! And the week after that! And another one later! And it'll keep going! Hopefully forever!

But we're extra hella stoked because this time around - in a move that nobody has been clamoring for - we're puttin' on our all-time go-to: Extra Naked! Feel free to make your own Extra Naked/hand pump jokes on your own time, odds are we've heard (or made) most of them already.

As for those Old Favorites I mentioned, first on the ol' choppin’ block is Black Witow, being brought back for an unprecedented** third time! For those of you not “in the know”*** and also “unwilling to click that link,” Black Witow is a light-bodied easy-drinkin Belgian Witbier that just so happens to be jet black. It’s a weird lil’ beer and it confuses the crap out of some people, but we love it and we think it’s perfect for spring!

Next up for them Old Favorites is Bullhead... but with a twist this time. Long story short, we're keepin' the same recipe but we're using grains from a different small maltster (we can't guarantee we won't roll our eyes at you if you use the phrase "smalltster") - in this case, Two Track Malting out of North Dakota - to see how they compare (and they got their work cut out for them - we love us some Blue Ox around here)!

And what of that exciting semisecret project I mentioned? Read on, dear reader. See, there are a few Friends of the Brewery - who we'll call Jodi and Josh, because those are their names - who are getting married in a short while. And in the midst of the planning frenzy that accompanies even the most modest of nuptials, they had the idea to procure some of our delicious drinkables for their guests. And while we could do that (selling beer is, like, the only thing we do), we decided**** to do them one better and make them some special-ass marriage beers! So what we're doin' is we're makin' a Jodi Beer and a Josh Beer, and they're intended to be blended at serving (they're made to go together, get it?), since we're pretty big on beertails around here (and if you weren't in the know on that last bit, it might behoove you to inquire about the secret menu next time you're in). Them's all the details we're fit to divulge at the time being, but keep an eye out in the coming weeks (particularly around, say, May fourteenth), because we'll be releasin' these beers in the taproom on the Big Day!

And also as always we're gonna be doin' all kinds of crazy crap in the taproom and slingin' suds all over the state so here's the schedule:

03/30 3-11pm Cask x Pizza Thursday: Extra Naked
03/31 5-7pm CBC Belmont Growler Pop Up
04/01 2-9pm Melrose Beer & Bites (Two Sessions)
04/06 3-11pm Cask x Pizza Thursday: Big Boots w/Comet
04/07 12pm Black Witow Release
04/07 6-8pm Pemberton Farms Growler Pop Up
04/08 12-6pm Beantown Pastrami Pop Up
04/13 3-11pm Cask x Pizza Thursday: Shut Up Kelly!
04/14 12pm Bullhead Release
04/15 2-8pm Beer Marinated Empanadas Pop Up
04/16 12-4pm Beer Brunch w/Union Square Donuts
04/20 3-11pm Cask x Pizza Thursday: Black Witow w/SPD Triple Sec Oak Chips
04/21 5-10pm Beers 'n Burgers w/Bonetown Food Truck
04/21 6-10pm Q's Nuts Pop Up
04/28 4:30-6:30 Hopsters Alley Growler Pop Up
04/29 12-7pm Naw'lins Cuisine w/Revelry Food Truck
04/29 12-4pm Worcester Craft Brew Races

Holy crap that's a lot of stuff. Can you dig it?!

* Of ours, anyway.
** Admittedly, we're a pretty new company, so "unprecedented" doesn't really carry a lot of weight around here.
*** Speaking of being in the know, we've got some (hopefully tasty) tricks up our collective sleeves for when that goes on cask, so keep them eyes peeled.
**** This decision was accompanied by a silent yet frantic prayer to the Fermentation Goblins that they'd like this idea even half as much as we do.

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Meet the Meats and Eat Some Eats

3/21/2017

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Hello, friends! It's that time of the week when we tell you what's what for the end of the week and man oh man do we have a weekend for you! On Thursday, we're startin' off the weekend with the release of Big Boots Brew - a hoppy wheat brewed by and/or for the ladies.*

Jimbo is a classy lady who always brushes her hair

And if that (plus the pizza we'll be servin') weren't enough for you, we're kickin' things up a crank and gettin' all y'all a cask for the second dang ol' week in a row! Whilst mourning the loss of our beloved Idaho 7 saison, we wondered aloud why in heck we didn't just dump a crapload of that delicious Idaho 7 goodness** into a cask of Wasted Life. And then, wonder of wonders, we did that thing I just said! And now*** it's ready for you to drink! So you should come do that! Before it runs out!

The only time we'll ever tell you what sort of magic goes into Wasted Life

And that there cask (and, of course, the delicious hoppy wheat that we'll have in much larger quantity) is liable to last until Friday when we've got some sort of ill-defined condiment-themed situation in conjunction with Bonetown Burgers! And since most of y'all tend to be fans of bones, towns, and/or burgers, you should probably come "scope out" the "scene!"

You best bring your appetites for DESTRUCTION!!

Speaking of meats, on Saturday we're bringin' in new-to-the-scene Deviant Jerky for some good time popup style action that'll be sure to put a tingle on your tastebuds!

We love us summa that fancy jerky we always carry, but sometimes you gotta branch out, make sure it's all tasty, ya know?

As an added benefit, for your viewing pleasure we have finally installed that art that we were all excited about several weeks ago!

And it is gonna trip you out while you try and beat your high score on pinball

And while we're on the topic of delightful works of art, this weekend is just about your last chance to submit an entry to this month's coloring contest (technically it ends next Friday, but this is the last full weekend), so if you got your eye on a sweet swag bag that we'll make up on the spot, come on in and get your crayon on!

Adequate art, by people that are sorta drunk

* Hey girl, we got just what you're looking for: tasty brews and a comfortable, friendly atmosphere. Awww yeah.
** The hop, that is. Not the beer of the same name.
*** By "now" I mean "Thursday, when we're open."

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In Which We Weather the Storm

3/15/2017

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Hello again! We've once again endured another "storm of the century" that ended up being "kind of disappointing*" and we're kickin' things back into high gear and gettin' ready to bring the fun times for your enjoy this weekend!

Things get kickin' on Thursday, when - in addition to our usual delicious Sillari's pizza - we'll be tappin' a cask! Come Out and Play has been sittin' full o' dry hops and waiting patiently for this day, so you'd best come out and get it while the gettin's good!**

Waaaaarrrrriooooorrssss.....

And once again on Friday we got Roadie's Diner comin' through with some delicious sandwich action! This is the third of three consecutive Fridays that we're hosting them, so it's your last chance for a little while to grab one o' them steak sandwiches (and take my word for it, you do want to try that sandwich if you haven't already).

Get the choripan and the cubano and the chivito and the tostones and a platter too probably

Friday also happens to be one of the bigger drinkin' days of the year, and while we love a good pint o' Guinness as much as the next person, we ain't puttin' up much of a fuss over here on Norman Street. We'll have tasty food and fresh beers flowing all night, but - much like our NYE "party" - we'll be playin' it pretty low-key. So if you wanna go out and have a few beers without being surrounded by too many of the more, er, "green" drinkers out there, we're here for ya!

And if you're really hankerin' for somethin' green-themed, mayhaps give our newest IPA a try?

And! And! On Saturday we've got newcomer (to us, anyway) Sach Ko comin' through with some Asian street food, which - I'm told - will somehow involve meats on a stick (one of the superior ways to eat meats, if we're being honest).

And while we're howlin' about Fun and Tasty Things, we're gearin' up for yet another awesome festival! Melrose Beer & Bites is coming up in a few short weeks, and tickets are now available! The price includes unlimited tastings from over a dozen local breweries plus free snacks! Jared and Jimbo will be there pouring for both sessions, so if you missed the opportunity to heckle 'em this past weekend, step on it!

Purchase tickets here

* Though it did knock out our power and screw up our whole production schedule, which is fun.
** The last cask we had on almost made it to Friday evening. We don't expect that to be the norm (it was our First Ever, so there was more hoopla than usual), but it's a useful point of reference.

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In Which the Beautifully Painful World of Hot Sauce is Revealed to Us

3/7/2017

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Oh hi there! How are you? We're great, thanks - things have been going swimmingly these days: this month's coloring contest already has a stack of entries, contributions to Hot Sauce Nation are so numerous they need to be carried around in a crate, and we got a handful o' casks* conditioning away!

Waaaarrrriiiioooorrrrrssss, come out and plaaaayyyy! Or at least doodle up our new colorin' page!

Anyone up for hot sauce flights?

On top of all that, we've got new beers in the pipeline for you! We had a whole bunch o' inconveniently-sized bags of miscellaneous hops (a few ounces here, a partial pound there) and we got tired of counting them in our inventory every month so we took that mishmash o' hops and flung 'em everywhere we could think of (in the kettle, in the fermentor, in the air ducts. Wherever) and then dumped a bunch of other shit in there (as in, all those other ingredients that are supposed to go into a beer) and called it a day (well, we also called it Green Smoothie). The end result is a party for your tastebuds as all them hop flavors vie for your attention: citrusy, earthy, piney, herbal, pithy notes of stonefruit, the works. Come drink it this weekend (or next weekend as you try and stay as far away from Southie as possible)! Voila, etc!

We couldn't recreate this beer if we wanted to, so come and enjoy this aromatic shitshow while it's here!

And as if that ain't enough hops for ya, here's an extra nugget of feel goods: for International Women's Day (which happens to be today), Jimbo got asked by the the Pink Boots Society (a global organization for lady brewers everywhere!) to participate in this year's Big Boots Brew! She'll be riffin' off the given recipe to create a tasty lil' hoppy wheat all her own. On tap towards the end of the month!

If you're gonna take one selfie a year it might as well have expensive hoses in the background

And! And! We're expanding our cold snack selection to include some delightful snackables from Cauldron Fermented Foods! These guys have been making the porter mustard for our soft pretzels since day one, and their dilly beans will make some top notch bar snacks! To celebrate the introduction of their eats to our taproom, the fine folks from Cauldron are swingin' through our taproom this Saturday with a whole host o' fermented foods for you to try!

BRINE TIME

And if you can't wait that long to drink our beer and/or eat some things, we'll be at ONCE/Cuisine En Locale for that taco party tomorrow (we believe the event is sold out, so if you grabbed a ticket in time, we'll see you there)!

Lastly but not leastly, we bring you some eagerly-awaited** Updates From The Production Floor: we've learned to navigate around our new tanks whilst sustaining only minor injuries, but they're still not in service yet. The building's electrician told us that things would be put in motion on "Monday," which sounds... sadly familiar.*** But that's okay!**** We got plenty of other stuff to keep ourselves busy in the meantime, so we gon' keep on keepin' on!

Specifically, we'll keep on staring into the shiny stainless abyss, clutching the bruises we got on our hips from walking into those sample valves all the damn time

We're up to a lot these days and can't write enough sassy nonsense to do it all justice! Here's the shortlist of all the Fun Times we've got goin' on for March, in and out of the taproom:

Thursday 3/9 Mass Hysteria Beer & Taco Fiesta @ ONCE Somerville 7-10pm
Friday 3/10 Roadies Diner food truck 5-10pm
Saturday 3/11 Cauldron Fermented Foods Pop Up 2-8pm
Sunday 3/12 Hyper Local Craft Beer Fest @ Kappy's Medford 2-5pm
Thursday 3/16 Come Out and Play cask release (taproom only) 3-11pm
Friday 3/17 Roadies Diner food truck 5-10pm
Saturday 3/18 Sach Ko food truck 2-8pm
Thursday 3/23 Wasted Life IPA cask release (taproom only) 3-11pm
Friday 3/24 Bonetown Burgers food truck 5-10pm
Friday 3/31 Tasting and growler pop up @ CBC Belmont 5-7pm

* Though for reasons related to our own health, we will probably never put a double IPA on cask again.
** Not really.
*** For those of you who didn't follow our excruciatingly slow progress before we opened, it seems that "Monday" is Contractor Code for "probably never."
**** Sort of. Not really.

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In Which We Tap Alllll the Casks

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In Which the Beautifully Painful World of Hot Sauce is Revealed to Us

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