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In Which There Are Hangovers, Gratitude, and Labor Day Events

8/31/2022

Hello again! We sure do hope you had fun at our anniversary party this past weekend if you made it out (and also if you didn't make it out we hope you had fun at whatever substantially-less-cool thing you were doing. I guess)! We certainly had a blast and even though our Monday mostly consisted of dramatically throwing ourselves onto the couch and declaring things like "no loving god would allow me to feel this way" we're mostly just reeling from all the good times and good vibes and friendship that we got to experience!

We're completely lucky as hell that we get to do what we do and even moreso we're completely lucky as hell to know all the great people we've met through our weird little brewery, so thank you for supporting us and coming to our party and sharing some beers with us and also thank you for being a part of all the other cool stuff we get to do - the dog pool parties and the coloring contests and the shows and the beer-and-candy pairing and the sushi classes and the metal yoga and anyway at this point I'm just naming events when really the point is that we couldn't do any of this without you, so thanks for being you! Whether you're hunched over the bar or working behind the bar (and then probably hunched over the bar right after that) or playing in a band or hangin' at a table or coming by as a vendor, we're glad you're here!

The blurry photos from Jimbo's phone are but a taste of the visual glory to come once Matt's done sifting through the thousands of photos from his camera

And getting a bit more "down to business," this happens to be the first week since we can remember that we don't have a dang ol' beer release (which is probably sort of ironic because now is the first time in weeks that we'd have space in the cold room to put it) but that don't mean we can't scrounge up some fun times!

But before we get to that, we do have a minor programming note - we will be open from 12-8 on Monday (September 5) because it's Labor Day and so on.

Gotta get that sweet summer drinkin' in while you can

Anyway, for starters on that ol' Fun Timez Train, on Thursday we've got our monthly music trivia night and this month's theme is The Misfits!

And then on Saturday we've got Crystal comin' by to do some emo yoga! The class starts at 10:30 and it includes a beer with the ticket, so come on out and get your stretch on while listening to some emo! Sign up here: Emo Yoga

And moving on to Sunday, we've got El Pelon taco cart in the house, plus Brutus Bone Broth will be in the house servin' samples for all the pups that come by and also we'll be donating $1/pour towards the MSPCA, so come on by!

And movin' on to the slightly more far-flung days of next week, next Thursday (September 8th) we'll be doin' Simpsons trivia again and the theme du jour* is Season Nine! It's gonna be an interesting time because that's around the time the show was still good but also you can see it really start to go off the rails, conceptually speaking, and anyway it's gonna be fun and you should join us!

The times! They are good!

And if your idea of a good time is more "perusing the wares of cool local vendors" then you're in luck because next Saturday (September 10th) we've got our Harvest Market happening all afternoon and there's gonna be pies and mushrooms and pasta and hot sauce and tacos and good times and you should come hang out!

Oh! Also! We gotta announce the winners of August's coloring contest!

Adequate work everyone!

* Yes, I know that "du jour" means "of the day" but I refuse to learn enough French to change the phrase so it makes sense.

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When it's Time to Party, We Will Party Hard (Party Hard)!

8/24/2022

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Howdy campers! We're but a mere DAY away from our long-awaited birthday party and we're pretty much so excited we can't sit still but we've got business to get down to so let's saddle up them brass tacks and grab the bull by the beak and get on with it!

One! More! Sleep!

And our first order of business is, somehow, more friggin' beers. Thassright, we got ourselves on a roll and decided (for some reason) that brewing beers for each of the bands at the party wouldn't be enough, so here's some more!

SQUAD GOALS

And first on that ol' listicle is our collaboration beer with Silvaticus: Rumble Royale! We've been fans of their beer for a while now, so we set up some meetings and shared the fruits of our respective labors and came up with a tasty-as-hell barrel-aged blend that brings out the best qualities from both of our beers and it's in bottles Thursday and we've got a limited quantity so we suggest y'all get while there's gettin' to be got!

We seriously loved being in cahoots with these guys for a few months. The blend came out AWESOME

And speaking of beers in bottles, we had the ol' bottling rig out anyway so we figured we'd bottle up a funky lil' delight that's slated for draft in the fall and that beer is Critters XVIII! This one's a funky/fruity brown ale that's completely complex as hell (tasting notes include brown bread and quince, which is a better combo than you might think) and it's also available in bottles Thursday and we hereby invite all funk fans to check it out!

A true treat for the advanced palate

And while we're on the subject we do have to point out (again) that our anniversary party is THIS FRIGGIN' WEEKEND but also you're probably tired of hearing us shout about our anniversary party by now, so we'll keep this short and sweet: we've got tons of great beer* and rad tunes and tasty food and cool swag and fun times lined up for you all weekend, and we're certain it's gonna be a blast! It's our absolute favorite weekend** of the year and a big part of that is because it means we get to hang out with all the coolest people we know all at once, and we sure as hell hope you'll join us because we'd love to share a beer with you!

You KNOW we throw down for this. Come hang!

And since we're all about keepin' the fun times rollin' even after the Big Event, it behooves us forthwith to point out that we've got Misfits-themed trivia next Thursday! We'll be doin' a deep dive on the adventures of the adventures of Danny Glegg or whoever and anyway it's gonna be a good time and there's gonna be weird prizes and you should come out!

Can't stop giggling at Danny Glegg

And also we might be jumping the gun a little but we thought you might want to know that sushi classes start up again next month! We're gonna have Chef Harold back in the house on the regular starting mid-month and it seems like a blast and we recommend you check it out if you haven't already! Here's a link where you can grab tickets: Sushi Making 101

HAROOOOOLD

* If you're a little generous with how you count, we brewed/blended NINETEEN beers for this weekend (fifteen bands, plus one band that dropped out but still got a beer, plus one for the band that's not a "real band," plus a collab with another brewery, plus another Critters release just for laughs). Gonna be tough to top that next year, but we said that last year when we "only" had eleven beers.
** There was a time when it was our favorite day of the year, but the celebration has been creeping outward. We're hoping to hit a full week by 2024.

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In Which the Fancy Beers Cometh

8/17/2022

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Hello there, cats and kittens! It's once again time to blog it up, so let's blog down and blog it all around!

And the first item of the day is even more anniversary beers! What a twist, right? This week we're talkin' about a hoppy session ale called Ad Nauseam that we brewed for a late addition to the fest: Stryga! As for why they're a late addition, one of the other bands* had to bow out because of Reasons (they probably told us what those reasons were, but you know how it is) and our pals in Stryga jumped onboard ready to rock! Anyway the beer's gonna be in cans tomorrow and it's tasty as heck!

Extra Naked: crust punk variant

And speaking of anniversary beers, there's more anniversary beers! Of course there are! We're gettin' kinda "close to the wire" or whatever, so it's time to start introducing the fancy shit! And today's particular fanciful flight of funk is a beer made to pair with the sounds of DnA's Evolution and we're calling it Welcome to the Bad Future! These guys have been playing at our party for years and years and we've made a handful of different beers for them and then last year we blended up a funky beer for them and it sold out faster than any beer we've ever released. We're talking a span of hours, here. Coincidence? Absolutely! But that doesn't mean we're not gonna do it again, so we did it again! This lil' beer is a blend of several different wild ales, prominently featuring beers fermented with mango and it's light and crisp and kinda funky and a lil' tart and delicious as heck and it's gonna be on tap and in bottles starting on Saturday, 8/27 and you should drink some while you can!

The name? Also coincidence. But quite topical

And speaking of fancy beer and/or revisiting ideas from last year, we might as well talk about Dark Humor! For this we'll need to take a bit of a trip down Memory Lane - at last year's anniversary show, SkyTigers was an extremely last-minute addition to the setlist because one of the bands got covid or something. If memory serves, we didn't get in touch with them until Wednesday and the show was on Friday, which means there was no way in heck we were gonna be able to brew a beer for them. We came up with a beertail and gave them an IOU on the beer and set a time to meet with them in the fall so we could discuss details.**

Anyway, in addition to giving us some of the most unusable beer names of all time,*** they told us they wanted a pumpkin stout so they could "take fall back from white girls." And while that is sound logic, we were faced with the prospect of releasing a pumpkin beer in November, to which we told them an extremely reasonable "fuck no" before finding a compromise (which was Dark Humor, the vanilla-cinnamon stout we released last year). BUT, what we've (mostly) managed to keep under our hats until now is that we saved part of that batch and aged it in a rum barrel so that we could brew a pumpkin**** stout this year and have it be a ridiculous rum-barrel-pumpkin-stout monstrosity and that's exactly what we did do and it's gonna be in bottles and on draft Friday, 8/26 and we're actually pretty proud of the end result and you should have some!

We're only, like, a little annoyed we made a pumpkin spice beer that's honestly really tasty

And since we're talkin' about the anniversary and also we're only a dang ol' WEEK away from the festivites, we figured this would be a good time to run through the music lineup for the weekend!

On Thursday (the 25th) it's not necessarily a "band" per se (though it might be? Unclear), because this is the night when our sound guy (who is a skilled musician, by the way. He's not just, like, some guy) is takin' the stage and doin' whatever he feels like (which may or may not include bringing other musicians onstage) and anyway we're expecting it to be a good time (paired with: Baby Monster sour brown)!

PREGAME

Then on Friday (the 26th) we're gonna start featuring "bands" that have "names" instead of "some guy" and we're kickin' things off with the punkish stylings of The Guilloteenagers (paired with: Don't Go session IPA), followed by some eardrum-destroying hardcore/post-punk from Blood Built Empire***** (paired with: Blood Built dry stout) and then we're slowin' things down and gettin' hella heavy with Lesser Glow (paired with: I am the Island IPA) and we're cappin' off the night with Worshipper (paired with: Mirage Daze barrel-aged farmhouse)!

Bring earplugs

And then on Saturday (the 27th) we're shakin' off the dust and doin' it all over again and doin' it harder because that's what this weekend is all about and anyway we're startin' off with some garage rock courtesy of Organ Meats (paired with: Stick the Landing mild ale), then we're detouring to surf towne with The Weisstronauts (paired with: Seven X's ESB) before we start to ramp things up with DnA's Evolution (paired with: Welcome to the Bad Future wild saison) and things'll keep rampin' up with Benthic Realm playing next (paired with: Where Serpents Dwell west coast IPA) and then we'll probably start to piss off our neighbors a bit with our crust punk friends in Stryga (paired with: Ad Nauseam hoppy session ale) and then if that didn't piss off our neighbors then SkyTigers definitely will (paired with: Dark Humor barrel-aged pumpkin stout) and we're cappin' the night off with some "cigarette metal" from Crowfeeder (paired with: Bird Bath smoked brown)!

Those of you with children and dogs: consider yourselves warned

But wait! We've still got a helluva setlist on Sunday (the 28th) which starts with Sunken City (paired with: Float Along kiwi grisette) who's gonna ease us into the afternoon with some smooth tunes before we get into some stoner rock with Blue Manic (paired with: Blue Manic spruce tip pale ale) and then even more music from DnA's Evolution (paired with: Welcome to the Bad Future wild saison, because we couldn't make two beers for them) and then we've got a pair of newcomers to the stage starting with North Star the Wanderer (paired with: Man Overboard barrel-aged dark strong ale) and lastly everybody's in for a real treat with power violence band Sexless Marriage (paired with: Nameless Wave double IPA) and there's a good chance they might clear out part of the beer garden but we'll still be there rockin' the hell out and we hope you will be too!

Phew. Dang, that was kind of a lot. Sorry, we get excited.

And speaking of getting excited, we're pretty damn excited about the cool stuff we've got going on this week even though we kind of got sidetracked before getting there and anyway very importantly we've got Bill and Ted trivia tonight (Wednesday)! We're gonna get trivial on the adventures and/or journey those Wyld Stallyns have had (excellent, bogus, or otherwise) and we hope you'll join us!

Excellent!

And then on Saturday we're teamin' up with Red Dog Pet Resort & Spa for a dog pool party from 12-3pm! And in order to make it a real party we've got a whole buncha dog-related vendors comin' by (namely Goodboy Wear, The Pet Snackery, Pezz Pets, and The Rainbow Bridge Medium) and also Tubb’s Doughnuts will be providing some people donuts (and also some dog donuts!) and it's gonna be a great time for our furry friends and/or their owners and/or anybody who wants to watch a bunch of dogs splash around in a pool, so come on by!

Party!

* We're not tryin' to name and shame here, but we might as well point out that it was Attest (to save you from trying to cross reference the setlist to the back of the t shirt). They did actually have a legit reason and they're super bummed about it, so we're trying not to give them shit about it.
** For logistical reasons, we don't usually give bands much of a say in what their anniversary beer will be (unlike how we normally do band collabs), mostly in the interest of avoiding a weird/lopsided menu day-of. But since this wasn't a real anniversary beer, we figured it made sense to play it like a real collab.
*** Most of them are unprintable, but we are at some point going to use "All Hops are Bastards"
**** It was "brewed with pumpkin" in the sense that there was, in fact, some pumpkin in the room when we brewed it. We were gonna carry around a pumpkin during brewday, but it turns out those are hard to find in July.
***** We almost sent a cask of their beer as our entry to GBBF until we realized that it might not be the best idea to send a beer called "Blood Built Empire" to England

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In Which We Enjoy the Mirage Daze of Summer

8/9/2022

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Well hey there! We've once again got a buncha good tastes and good times lined up for your enjoy, so step right up and check out all this cool stuff!

First up is - you guessed it - another band beer! This one is an IPA made to pair with the sounds of Lesser Glow and we're callin' it I am the Island and it's tasty as hell and it's gonna be in cans on Friday (and on tap at some point,* whenever we have a free draft line) and you should drink some!

The space vibes just keep rollin' this year

And speaking of anniversary beers, we've got more anniversary beers! We've got a few barreled and/or blended beers that are waitin' to be released and the first one is a barreled blend made to pair with the music of Worshipper and it's called Mirage Daze! This tasty little number doesn't skimp on the barrel character, but it's also got a pinchy punch of tartness due to a secret ingredient** and anyway it's on tap now and in bottles soon, and we're stoked as hell about this beer (this blend has been in the works for a while now) and we think you'll enjoy it too!

Surprisingly crushable during this heat wave

And while we're prattlin' on about the anniversary, we might as well prattle on some more about the anniversary! We talked a bit last week about all the cool food vendors we're gonna have, BUT did you know that we've got even MORE cool stuff lined up? Because we do! On Thursday (the 25th) we're doin' a dog fundraiser - we figured that things might be a bit crowded/loud for peoples' furry friends on a lot of the other days so we're encouraging people to get them pups out here before the chaos and so we're donating $1 per full pour to Great Dog Rescue New England!

We're not saying, "don't bring your dog to the party," but we are saying the music is gonna be LOUD and the beer garden is gonna be FULL, so Thursday might be the most thoughtful night for Fido.

And then on Friday (the 26th) we're bringin' the heat with Barry's Hot Sauce up in the house slingin' spicy sauces, then on Saturday (the 27th) we've got our friend(s) from Heads Up Screenprinting here to do some live screenprinting and they'll be printin' up some exclusive one-day-only*** designs AND they'll print on stuff that you bring them if you want our logo on something other than their stock blanks (and honestly these designs are pretty rad on flannels and hoodies and stuff, and I think they're just bringing t shirts) and anyway they're here from 1-4 so come early if you want some printing!

The designs this year are no joke!

And lastly, on Sunday (the 28th), we've got Light of Day Records comin' by and doin' a popup vinyl shop from 12-4! So really the point is that even if beer and music and food weren't enough for you, we've also got a buncha cool other stuff lined up too!

Tunes!

Aaaand to bring things "back to the present" for a bit, this Thursday we've got another round of Simpsons Trivia for all y'all and the theme is Season Eight! This season is definitely in our wheelhouse (Jared had most of it on VHS in high school, which is probably not a real bragging point?) and also it's pretty much the high point of the show and it's gonna be hella fun and you should come out!

And then on Friday we're kickin' things down a notch and coolin' out with some Surf Guitar Happy Hour! Yes indeedy, our friend Matt Heaton will be strummin' out some surf jams and helpin' you ease into the weekend and it's gonna be a great time!

And! Lastly! We've got another trivia comin' up next Wednesday (the 17th) that you might wanna know about and it's based on Bill & Ted! We'll be ridin' along through some excellent adventures and a bogus journey and a... whatever that third one was called... and there's gonna be prizes and friendship and good times and you should come out!

Fun times!

Oh! And! We are looking to add to our production staff!! Tell your friends! Here's the official job posting, and details/how to apply can be found through this link: We Have Job!

Full Time Production Assistant/Assistant Brewer
Are you lookin' to get your hands dirty making the best dang beer around? If so, then you're in luck because we! Are! Hiring! We're looking for an entry-level person to help out with our production work - it's a lot of manual labor (mostly cleaning. And note taking. So much note taking), but we're proud of what we make and we think it's rewarding to have something to show for all that hard work. Plus there's a lot of room to grow within the company, and before you know it you'll be involved in every step of the brewing process from grain to glass!

Look how happy we all are, JOIN USSS

* Your humble bloggists are on vacation this week, which means the blog was written in advance instead of hurriedly typed out on the walk to work on Wednesday morning like it usually is. More to the point, we may be a little inaccurate about timing on things like this (well, more inaccurate than usual, that is)
** It's worth noting that this isn't our usual secret ingredient ("beer of questionable provenance, because the label fell off or the keg cap got smudged or something, but we really liked it so we used it anyway"), but that's all we're gonna say. It's a blend of like five beers, so it's unlikely that any should stand out that much.
*** Last year some of them weren't technically "one day only" because he bought some extra shirts and we got those printed too, but I wouldn't count on that if you've got your eye on something.

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In Which the Baby Monster is Unleashed

8/2/2022

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Hi friends! It's blog o'clock, so let's blog up some blog times all up in this blog!

And first up on the ol' docket, since this is the time of year when we're pretty much constantly releasing new beers, we've got another dang ol' new beer! This one is a collaboration with Crowfeeder and it's kinda-sorta not an anniversary beer only it totally is. See, they've got a new EP coming out soon* and they thought it would be cool to have a beer release to go with the music release, and we noticed the planned timing of the album release was rather... serendipitously close to our anniversary party so we grabbed that opportunity by the horns and told them that we just so happened to have a set open at our party** and they agreed to play, which is rad, and also they wanted their beer to be a session-strength smoked brown ale, which is also rad*** and anyway the beer is gonna be in cans on Friday and you should drink some!

The artist's visual interpretation of Crowfeeder's sound (which was described to us as "cigarette metal")

But wait, there's more! Somehow. We've got another beer out that's kind of an "unofficial" anniversary beer and we made it more or less as a gift to ourselves and also maybe to pair with the "unofficial" band that's playing on the Thursday of our anniversary weekend (the 25th, for the uninitiated). Anyway, we don't entirely know what's gonna be going on musically that night (our sound guy pretty much asked for carte blanche to play whatever he wanted and we agreed without asking any follow-up questions), but the beer itself is... also a little mysterious, honestly. It's a blend of a funky brown with soursop (which, despite the name, is more mild/sweet than sour) and something that we're *pretty* sure is a wild ale with plums and honey, but also our notes for that particular component are lacking at best. Anyway, it's called Baby Monster and it's damn good and it's on tap right now and we'll be releasing it in bottles on Thursday 8/25 and you should try some!

PLEASE ask Jared about the stupid origin story of this beer name, it definitely doesn't involve raw chicken in any way

And speaking of our anniversary party, it behooves us forthwith to let y'all know that anniversary swag has started becoming available for preorder!

Wecanallmatchomg

Currently you can preorder the duds (t shirts and tank tops, available in two color combos) and the mugs are available for preorder starting RIGHT NOW and also we put out some sweet shaker pints that are available right now (as in, we're using them in the taproom. No preorder necessary) and anyway if you wanna make sure you get your grubby little paws on some sweet merch then get your preorder on!

How friggin' sweet are these

And since we're goin' on about the dang ol' anniversary party anyway, and since it's less than a dang month away we should probably talk about all the other cool shit that we're doing in addition to the bands and/or beers (though we *do* have another six beers that aren't out yet). Anyway, for those of you who are lookin' to get your grub on during the party, we've got a hella stacked lineup of food vendors throughout the weekend! On Thursday (the 25th) we've got Tres Latinas comin' by with arepas and other Venezuelan food, then on Friday (the 26th) we're bringin' back Bonetown Burgers because they were our food vendor on Day Friggin' One and then on Saturday (the 27th) we're packin' in lotsa options in order to make sure nobody goes hungry, with Matilda's Pastelitos and El Pelon Taco Cart in the afternoon and The 'Nada Cart in the PM and then on Sunday (the 28th) we're finishing strong with Lala's Neopolitan-ish pizza! Anyway the point is that if you don't eat well that weekend, it sure as hell ain't our fault.

And don't forget hot sauce pop ups on Friday, 8/26, the glorious return of live screen printing on Saturday 8/27 and our first ever vinyl pop up shop on Sunday 8/28!

Oh crap I got so excited talking about the anniversary that I forgot about the cool stuff that we've got goin' on this week! First on up, on Thursday, is this month's installment of our monthly music trivia: Audio Triviality! The theme this month is "Cops 'n Robbers" and it definitely took us a minute to figure out how in heck that might relate to music trivia so we prodded our host for any "actual information" (which he is generally reluctant to divulge) and here's what we got: "the theme includes songs relating to committing crimes, getting busted, and general disdain of the treatment from police and the government. From Johnny Cash to Black Flag, NWA to Rage Against the Machine" and anyway that actually makes a whole lotta sense and we're gonna do our damnedest to get some points up on that scoreboard and you should come join us!

And then for the weekend itself, on Saturday we've got Biscuitdrop comin' by and servin' up some delicious-ass biscuit-themed dishes and you should come eat some!

Magic, pure magic

And! Lastly! It's a new month, which means a new coloring contest winner, so here you go! Adequate work, @b.ugh.y!

Sorry Amy, you can't win every month

* We've heard the "roughs" or whatever they're called and it's SO GOOD YOU GUYS
** This may not have been 100% "true" if you're the "accurate" type. But we managed to cram them into the lineup anyway.
*** Especially since SOMEbody in the band lineup didn't want to have a smoked beer for a fourth year in a row.

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In Which There Are Hangovers, Gratitude, and Labor Day Events

When it's Time to Party, We Will Party Hard (Party Hard)!

In Which the Fancy Beers Cometh

In Which We Enjoy the Mirage Daze of Summer

In Which the Baby Monster is Unleashed

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