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Team Flannel: ASSEMBLE!

9/25/2018

Well hello! We got some tasty times with a side o' comfiness comin' your way, so buckle up!

First and/or foremost: FLANNELS! These comfy-ass duds were more of a hit than we expected last year, which left an unfortunate number of you out in the cold. So we did our best to rectify that this time around - gettin' all we could grab from our supplier* and grabbin' 'em as early as we could so's they'd be ready for the earliest chilly days. And now they're here! And you should get one!**

Moving on to things that aren't quite in reach yet - this week's cask (to be tapped on Thursday) is once again Jaunty, only this time it's a bit more... chaotic. And by that, of course, I mean that we stuffed that sucker fulla Chaos! Your tastebuds won't know what hit them.

Then the day after that - specifically Friday - we're once again hosting our friends from Eat More Mexican! If you like burritos that taste good, you should probably come eat these burritos (because they taste good).

Then after (before?) that, we've got the Official Launch of Brato Hop Dogs in the taproom! You savvy readers out there probably knew about this already because apparently last week was just a "test run,"*** but anyway they're here to stay! And they're tasty as heck!

And speaking of Brato (and our friends at Bonetown Burgers), our first annual Settle the Beef! Chili Cookoff is but a mere week and a half away! If you haven't heard us shouting about how the world needs a) more chili and 2) more made up rivalries, you can experience both in the same place (our taproom) next Saturday! And to spice up this heap o 'fun we have planned, we've got Showdown, our chili milk stout collab with Brato, waitin' in the wings to get tapped at noon sharp that day. So come on out! Maybe even wear your new flannel!

Lastly but not leastly, at some undetermined point by or before next week, we've got a new beer goin' on tap! See, our friends over at Catalyst wanted to do a beer dinner with us, and heck yes of course we want to do a beer dinner because beer dinners are a lot of fun, and then they suggested that maybe it might be even more fun if we made a special beer for that beer dinner. And I dunno if you know our feelings on fun (we're for it), but suffice to say we were all over that like stink on a monkey and now we've got this tasty-ass grisette just waiting to be tapped so you can drink it!

* Definitely not Costco (wink).
** Right now they're taproom-only, but we'll have 'em up on the online shop soon!
*** Definitely not a thinly-veiled excuse for why we ran out halfway through the weekend.

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In Which the Collaborations Continue!

9/18/2018

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Oh hi there! I sure hope you're ready for some new beers and some fun events and some new beers brewed specifically for said fun events and also some snacks, because that's what we've got for ya!

First up, on tap right now is a hoppy lil' delight that we're callin' Death Salon! Now, you might be thinking that we picked a pretty somber name* for such a light 'n' easy beer, but we've (sort of) got a perfectly good reason! See, the folks at Death Salon run a series of events along with their sister organization Order of the Good Death, who are dedicated to eliminating the collective cultural heebie-jeebies that we all have about death and dying. That might (as we've learned from experience) seem kind of weird and morbid, but we think it's a good cause and also it's run by some pretty rad people, so we decided to make a beer for it! Then after much soul-searching and a modest amount of debate, we pretty much just said "funerals have flowers at them, let's make a hella floral pale ale!" And yeah, fine, it's a bit of a stretch. YOU try coming up with a tasty-sounding death themed beer (ideally without illegally foraging nightshade from a cemetery, Jake).

Speaking of collaborations, while we were hangin' with our friends from Brato and brewin' up a special beer for a special event (we've been sneaking samples of the beer and it's SO TASTY YOU GUYS and also we've been hearin' some cool ideas that the chefs have cookin' on the backburner in prep for The Showdown and basically it's gonna be completely fun as hell and you should come), we got to talking hot dogs (as one does). Anyway, the point is that as of Right Now we're servin' up Brato Hop Dogs** in the taproom!

Anyway, speaking of things that hold a special place in our hearts, the cask this Thursday is Oh My! Throwback IPA! As always, as we are wont to do, we dry hopped the heck outta that sucker with a double fistful of piney, sticky, dank Comet! Space cask! Or something!

Moving a bit further afield, we'll be pouring at Brews for Books - a fundraiser event for the Malden Public Library at the Malden Public Library - this Saturday! Libraries are important and we think you should come out and show some love by drinking tasty beers!

* Or not, depending on how well you know us.
** Fortunately or otherwise, this does mean we'll be discontinuing the Costco-sourced big-brand dogs we've been slingin'. We'll always have a soft spot for them, but Brato blows them out of the water.

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In Which the Village is Fested

9/12/2018

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Hello friends! I hope you're well. We've got good taste for your mouth and good times for your enjoy, so pull up a website and sit a spell.

First up, this Thursday is Simpsons Trivia Night! So if you're lookin' to pit your wits and/or get your reminisce on about some old favorites, come on by! And as an added bonus (which, it turns out, nobody really cares about), we'll have a super-secret* one-night-only beertail for all your trivial needs!

And besides beertails, you know what pairs super well with trivia? I hope it's cask, because we've got a corker goin' on tap this Thursday! More specifically, we've got Jaunty Session IPA dry hopped with Masscade, and it's a dang ol' treat (and we would know - we had that same cask on tap at that cask fest last weekend and hoo boy was it tasty)!

Moving on to later times, this Saturday once again brings us Everett's annual Village Fest! There's gonna be a lot goin' on, but the main skinny of the gist is that they're shuttin' down the street from our parking lot all the way down to Teddy Peanut Butter and there's gonna be bands and food trucks and street drinkin' (we'll be reppin' at two outdoor bars!) and games and alla that street fest stuff. And in an unexpected-yet-completely-expected return to the festival's roots, the headliner is Sugar Ray. Yes, the Sugar Ray. No, I don't know how/why.

Anyway, there's some logistical mumbo jumbo with the fest that's worth noting, so here we go:
-We'll be closing at 9 PM because that's when the fest ends.
-We'll be serving in plastic cups only throughout the course of the day, which means no flights and no growlers (Big Stupid Cans are still a go, though).
-We'll probably be open at our normal time, but the street shuts down at 11 AM, which means it will be kind of hard to get here even before the fest starts.
-But there is parking available in the BNY lot for the day, which is nice.
-There's probably something else I'm forgetting but that's most of it.

Anyway, moving on and moving forward, in just a few short weeks we've got the Mass Fermentational** coming up on October 6th on Worcester Common! It's put on by the Mass Brewers Guild so you know there's gonna be hella great beer and great times all up ins, so you should come on out!

* It's even a secret to us, in the sense that we haven't come up with recipe or name as of yet.
** Also known as Brewery Prom, though we weren't allowed to bring a date this year.

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All Your Wet Hops Are Belong to Us

9/4/2018

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Well hello. We've been expecting you.

More importantly, we've got hella fun and/or tasty times lined up for you, so let's cut all the horsefeathers and get on with it!

First up, on Thursday we've got Audio Triviality back in the house and the theme this month (which we actually know ahead of time for once) is Back to School! Whatever that means! And don't you worry, we're fully restocked on weird prizes - and we got some good ones this time!

And while we're talking about good things happening on Thursday, we're also tappin' a cask of a fast-favorite around here: Lil' Delicious! And in (successful) effort to ramp up the Peachy Goodness, we dry hopped it with even more Idaho 7! Party times!

And while we're goin' on about beer, this Friday marks our first new release in two whole weeks, and it's a special one that we call The Windy Man.* More to the point, this lil' ol' batch of deliciousness was jam-packed fulla freshly-picked centennial hop cones (from our friends at Four Star Farms, of course) on brewday, and it's got more fresh hop aroma than you can shake a stick at, I tell you what. More importantly, that ever-elusive freshness is liable to fade faster than the last rays of sunshine at dusk, so we suggest you get you some tootsweeet!

Moving on, if you're comin' through the taproom on Saturday we'll have Deep Cuts Deli slingin' sandwiches from noon 'til five! They're new to the taproom, so be sure to show them the utmost hospitality!**

Also on Saturday, we're pouring at a cask fest on the Cape! We did a similar fest with these folks a few months back and it was a pretty rad time, so we're right stoked to be headed back for round two! This time around we're totin' a couple birthday beers, so if you want you some Blood Built or Jaunty on cask, come on by and say hi!

* Known by some as "The Long Mover"
** I don't want to have this conversation again KEVIN

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