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9/29/2021

Howdy-do! We've got a week jam-packed fulla tasty beer and treats and friendship or whatever and we ain't really got a tonna jive to talk* so let's get to it!

Hello, precious

And first on up is another dang ol' cask! This time around it's yet another house favorite** beer to drink on cask and that means Extra Naked! This time around we dry hopped that sucker with Bitter Gold, the delicious-but-unfortunately-named hop that was front-and-center in our tasty-ass grisette Merry Go Round (rest in peace, you delicious bastard)! Anyway, it's gettin' tapped on Thursday and it's gonna be good!

Hello, we are now Adjunct Brewing Company, let us peddle our wares

And speaking of beer that's good (aren't we always?), we kinda-sorta forgot to tell you last week that we re-brewed Ginger Spectacular! Anyway you all know and/or love that beer and even if you don't it's got a pretty descriptive name (there's ginger in it, and it is spectacular. Nuff said) and my point is that it's on tap and in cans right now!

But wait! There's more! In addition to all these new-ish beers, we've got some New new beers and the first one is The Sachem's Ale! This here's a collab between us and new-to-us band Dzö-nga and it's packed fulla pineapple and peach and it's quite the treat! Also of note, we know Dzö-nga because they showed up at the bar one day and gave us a CD and said something to the general effect of "we heard you guys like to do collab beers with metal bands, so maybe you'd like to make a beer with us?" And oh man, that is absolutely the kind of thing that we want to encourage, so we brewed the heck out of a beer with/for them and you'll be able to get some on Friday!

And speaking of new, tasty beers that you can get on Friday, we're releasing yet another new, tasty beer on Friday! This one is also a collab beer that we jammed a whole buncha stuff into. Only this is a stout with a little bit of cocoa and cinnamon and some ancho and pasilla peppers (which are pretty firmly on the "flavor" side of the spectrum instead of the "heat" side) and instead of a band we collabed with Rock'n Rescue, an organization in North Reading that finds forever homes for Puerto Rican street dogs (known as "satos")! Anyway the beer is called Sato (go figure) and it's gonna be in cans on Friday (and quite possibly on cask in the near future) and a portion of the proceeds for this beer will go to Rock'n Rescue and anyway you should drink some!

Deliciousness awaits you (along with some stellar fall weather)

Oh! And we've got food this weekend! Check out the deets above (and also keep in mind that Speakeasy strongly suggests preordering (by EOD tomorrow) if you want to make sure you get what you want)!

Get ready for us to blare the Misfits all night

And! Lastly! It behooves us to point out that next Thursday is the next installment of our music-themed trivia - Audio Triviality - and this one's gonna be Halloween themed! We've missed trivia dearly while it was gone, so we're super jazzed to hang out and answer a bunch of weird questions that sit in the liminal space between "Halloween" and "music" and then give out a bunch of extremely stupid prizes and anyway you should come join us because it's gonna be a ton of fun!

* We still, on the regular, thank Hops that we don't have to deal with a new set of drastic, half-baked, poorly-communicated, covid-related rule changes every damn week.
** As you might imagine, Team Extra Naked and Camp Kelly are locked in constant, bitter dispute over which is superior. It's slowly turning into some Montague/Capulet shit over here.

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In Which Your Sunday Plans Are Taken Care Of

9/22/2021

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Well howdy there! We got us a rootin' tootin' sure shootin' roundup of beer and tasty treats and fun times and a little more beer just for good measure, so read on and read up!

CAAAAASSSSKKKKK

First off we're gonna start off with a lil' ol' administrative note that pretty much fits into none o' them categories I just rattled off, but it's important nonetheless. More to the point: starting on Thursday, October 7th, we'll be opening at 3 instead of noon on Thursdays (Friday thru Sunday we'll still open at noon). The change of the seasons brings about a bit of a downturn in what you might call "daytime drinking," so we figure we might as well roll with them ol' punches and all that.

But! Speaking of the change of the seasons, we're back in action with some seasonally-appropriate beer drinkin' fun times and this time around that means more cask! Yes indeedy, this Thursday heralds the glorious return of our fan-favorite porter, Shut Up Kelly!, to cask! And since this is the first time in a long time that we've had ol' Kelly grace the beer engine, we're just goin' for some straight-up normal-ass cask goodness!

Fall is here! Bring on the malt!

And while we're on about things that are straight-up and normal and good (and, at least arguably, seasonally appropriate), we've got a new beer on tap! Right now! It's a tasty-toasty lil' amber called Sunday Plans that we dry hopped with a bunch of our favoritest fruitiest hops and it's very very good and you should drink some!

"In which we manage to repeat the same delicious pop ups from last weekend"

And speaking of things that are tasty, we've got some tasty eats lined up for you this weekend, as you can see from this handy-dandy visual aid* we put together!

Aaaaand movin' on a little bit into next week, we've got more fun cooking classes lined up! On Tuesday we've got Chef Antonio showin' y'all how to make ravioli (specifically butternut squash ravioli with wild mushroom sauce, and before you say it yes we are jealous of you that get to go to this class and we're particularly jealous of your raviolis) and then on Wednesday Chef Harold is back in the house givin' you the skinny on how to roll up some tasty sushi and we *may* have snuck a couple bites off Chef Harold's plate (by which I mean he gave us a bunch of sushi because he's super nice) and it's completely delicious and also everybody that was in the class seemed like they were pretty much having a blast and anyway you should probably come?

Buy tickets for ravioli here: Ravioli Techniques Class
Buy tickets for sushi here: Sushi Making 101

* I don't know what the hell to call this, but "visual aid" is definitely not it. Kinda makes me think of my old boss who would refer to pretty much everything (videos, drawings, powerpoint presentations) as a "piece of graphics." Fun times, man.

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In Which We Throw Another Dog Party!

9/15/2021

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Hello again, friends! We got a big ol' slate of fun and cool events planned for all y'all, but first we got a wee bit o' beer news that's also kinda-sorta old news but also we had to have made it be old news* because of Secrets but now those secrets ain't so secret an anyway what I'm talkin' about is...

Beer for your mouth!

Kaboobi's Top Score!** This here's a tasty little beer that we brewed to celebrate the nuptials of a couple Friends Of The Brewery (Amy and Brian), only the bride wanted it to be a surprise for her husband-to-be and also he goes by "Kaboobi" sometimes? We never did get an explanation for that last bit. Anyway, it's tasty as heck and it's in cans right now and also that was the fastest we ever kicked a cask before (it took, like, two hours) and anyway it's tasty and you should have some!

And while we're on about cask, that ol' cask train is gonna stop rollin' for a week or so on account of how casks take a long time to prepare*** and we don't entirely "have one ready" for this week (and also we've got a lot of other cool stuff and fun times that we'll get to in a minute) and anyway cask will be back next week with the long-awaited (by us) return of Shut Up Kelly! On cask! It's so good!

Man it is so great to have taproom back in action

Anyway since I was all talkin' about all the cool stuff what we got goin' on, here's all the cool stuff what we got goin' on!

More dog parties, all the time

On Thursday we're hostin' another dog-themed event with new-to-us Dogs for Better Lives! These fine folks are an organization dedicated to training service dogs for Deaf adults and Autistic children and we're bringin' 'em in to hang out and talk to people and maybe show off some service-dogs-in-training and also we'll be donating a portion of the night's sales to them! And if *that* weren't enough for you, we're also bringin' in new-to-us Blanche's Ice Cream so you can get in a good old-fashioned end-of-summer ice cream binge! Party!

Date night? Date night.

And speaking of tasty eats, on Friday our friends from Matilda's are back in the house servin' up Pastelitos! Their food is completely tasty as hell and we have missed it dearly during the time we couldn't have popups and also they're great people so maybe you should come have some snacks with us? Yes, yes you should.

Different snacks!

And movin' on to Saturday we're bringin' in another new-to-us food vendor and that's Lala’s Neapolitan-Ish Pizza! They'll be bringin' their mobile wood-fired oven and servin' up a buncha tasty pizzas for the bulk of the day and it's gonna be delish!

On a mission to debunk the myth that beer and sushi are not a delightful pairing, one class at a time

And lastly, on Sunday, we've got more fun activities! This time around Chef Harold is puttin' on a sushi making class! We've hosted Chef Harold a time or two in the Before Times and he's always a straight-up delight to have in our taproom (and also the sushi is quite good) so we're super excited to see him again and you should come join us!

* That... that's a sentence, right? Do those words make sense in that order?
** All of our production notes just call it "KTS" which we told everyone was an acronym for "Keep The Secret"
*** To be clear, I'm not saying that it's too much work. It's just that they need to sit for a couple weeks before we can tap them, which means we need to plan a ways in advance.

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In Which The Tasty Times Continue!

9/8/2021

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Hello friends! It's blog time again and we got us some big ol' blog times for your enjoy, so buckle up and read up!

What is it? You'll have to come on it and find out your dangself!

First and/or foremost, we're maybe a smidge light on beer news this week on account of how we just spent seven weeks releasing one new beer after the other* but we're pretty sure we're gonna be tappin' up a cask this Thursday only we may not be 100% sure of the contents and that's definitely not because we forgot to write it down before we sat down to write the blog. But anyway: cask! Probably!

Holdin' out for Little Portugal

And speaking of Thursday, we're (kind of) gonna have a popup on Thursday! Yes indeedy, we've got a private event renting out our main taproom on Thursday evening and they're bringin' in Wild Fox Pierogi and the fine folks at Wild Fox said they'd be amenable to slingin' some pierogi to the General Public and that probably means you so come get some pierogi!

Dinner plans are taken care of, like, every day this weekend. You're welcome.

And while we're goin' on about foods that are their own container(s), on Friday we're bringin' in Mr. Tamole! It's been a dang ol' minute since we've had him in our taproom and we are damn excited to welcome him back, so come on out and show some love!

And speaking of friends we've sorely missed these past 18 months or so (who also so happen to make tasty treats, which also so happen to fit in the "foods that are their own container(s)" category), this Saturday marks the first time in a long time that we get to see our friends from Matilda's! They make some straight-up incredible pastelitos and we're plannin' on seein' them a fair bit over the fall, but really the point is their food is tasty as hell and you should come eat some!

And then! On Sunday, just when you thought we'd exhausted our options in this needlessly-specific category of foods, we're hosting a ravioli making class! This event is new to us so there are maybe a few unknowns on our end, but we *do* know it will result in butternut squash ravioli with wild mushroom sauce, so it would probably be a silly decision if you *didn't* sign up? I dunno, just sayin'. Grab your tickets here: Ravioli Time!

Please stop crying! We have almost an entire batch of each, so you've got like a month to say your goodbyes.

And! Lastly! We did promise last week that we'd provide more insight into our decision to "sunset"** Key Lime and Wasted Life and we kinda thought we'd have some big ol' speech ready or something but really it boils down to the fact that we're better at making beer than we used to be. We love Key Lime, but we've learned a lot about making fruit beers in the past five years. We love Wasted Life, but we (and the beer world in general) have a different relationship with hops than we used to.

And to some extent, we realized that it was silly to keep making one-off beers that we liked *more* than our flagships, which meant we had to rethink a few things. So. We'll still be having at least one fruity beer on the menu at all times, but we'll be mixin' up the fruits from season to season (whilst keeping a similar-if-not-identical base). And we'll certainly be havin' our fair share of hoppy shit flowin' through our draft lines (this is America after all), but ol' Wasted Life will be a bit more of a bit player. We're sad to see these beers go - they've been with us since Day One and then some - but sentimentality ain't everything, so we're sayin' "smell ya later" for now and moving forward not backward, upward not forward, and we damn well think you'll enjoy!

Until next week, campers!

* And you thought you wouldn't have to hear about our birthday party anymore
** As you may have guessed, we don't completely know what that word means in this context. But also we don't refer to beers as "brands" and we don't talk about y'all as "consumers" so what do you really expect

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In Which We Round FIVE FRIGGIN' YEARS!

9/1/2021

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You've made these two brewers the happiest clams on the planet!

Well hello! Welcome back! We had absolutely the most* fun at our birthday party this past weekend and we're gonna make you look at a whole shitload of pictures while we get all misty-eyed about friendship or whatever, because that's what we do around here, but first we gotta announce an announcement...

The best crew around (even if Bryan doesn't technically work here anymore)!

...which is that we're hiring! Yes indeedy, we're lookin' for a few fine folks for some front-of-house fun, so if you're lookin' to sling some brews with the best-ever crew then drop us a line! More to the point: we've got full- and part-time bartending positions open, so send your resume over to info@boneup.beer (along with some stuff about yourself and why you wanna work for us) if you're interested!

FRIDAY!

And movin' forward into lookin' back, we'd like to thank all of y'all who made it out to our birthday party! In many ways, it was a weekend full of firsts: it was our first-ever multi-day party, it was the first time we ever had a friggin' mosh pit form while a band was playing, it was the first (and second, actually) time that we had an ice cream truck show up unannounced to try and get that sweet "tipsy people" business (which is a practice we wholeheartedly support), it was the first time we've seen two grown men chug an entire bottle of hot sauce on stage (while in the middle of their set, no less), it was the first time that we've managed to sell out of a beer the weekend we released it,** and it was the first time that Liz got called up on stage to sing!

SATURDAAAYYY!

But even with all of those firsts, it felt much more like a comfortable return to the familiar. We got to see a ton of friends over the weekend - some who we've known for years, some who we're just getting to know, and some who we don't nearly get to see often enough. And to pair with all that friendship, we got to hear a bunch of incredible performances from a handful of excellent bands - some of whom we've known for years, some of whom were new to our stage, and one that was kind of both.***

SUNDAY!!

And, of course, to add to all that wonderfulness, we brought in a bunch of our favorite vendors so you could have a buncha tasty food and cool swag and hot sauce (which is sort of both of those things? I guess?) and anyway the point is that we got to spend the weekend surrounded by our favorite people, many of whom make some of our favorite things/sounds/foods, and our amazing staff performed a series of miracles to keep everything running smoothly and we couldn't possibly be happier that all of these great people have been a part of our lives for the past five years. Our weird little brewery has had an interesting half-decade to say the least, but there's nothing else we'd rather be doing and we couldn't think of a better group of people to share it with, so thank you. Thank you for being you, and thank you for helping us do what we do.

It's goodnight, not goodbye.

On a semi-related note, we feel that birthdays**** are a time to look back and reëvaluate. We've been doing a lot of thinking about our Core Lineup and we've been doing a fair bit of (research-related) drinking and some drinking-related thinking and anyway we figured it was worth mentioning to y'all that we'll be saying (temporary) goodbyes to Key Lime and Wasted Life.

We'll get into the nitty-gritty and a tearful goodbye and all that in a future blog post (because we've already written a novel here and we haven't even gotten to the upcoming events yet) but the fact of the matter is that things have changed a lot in five years so we're switchin' things up and puttin' them two beers on "rotational seasonal" status. We've got some big plans, but the point is that what we've got on hand is all we'll have for a while, so say your goodbyes now if you got some goodbyes to say!

Let's! Get! Trivial!

Anyway, movin' back to present times and positive vibes, this week brings us the return of Audio Triviality! Thassright, this Thursday we're bringin' Matt back in to bring you the brain busters and/or give you a live demonstration of what it's like to come back to public speaking for the first time in eighteen months! The theme for September is "pandemic" and we have most likely lost or broken or eaten our entire stash of shitty trivia prizes but that hardly matters because we'll be gettin' trivial!

Oh yes

And speaking of things that are coming back on Thursday, we're tappin' a cask on Thursday! More to the point, we'll be tappin' a cask of Organ Meats because we thought that would be a fitting pairing for trivia and also that's the only cask we have right now (cask will eventually be back on the once-per-week schedule, but it'll happen in fits and spurts for a little while). Anyway this year's rendition of Organ Meats is gonna be mighty tasty on cask but you ain't gotta take our word for it because you should come getcha some!

Sweet deets on them good eats!

And. AND. Since we're talkin' about all the cool stuff what we got goin' on (and, more to the point, cool stuff that's coming back), it behooves us to mention that we're bringin' in some popups to sling some tasty treats for all y'all on Saturday and Sunday!

Adequate work, @kirbyburt_, and shoutout to our honorable mentions!

AND. Lastly but far from leastly, we've got August's coloring contest winners! We had an above-average turnout this month in terms of both volume and quality, which made it particularly difficult to decide (and which resulted in a lot of runners-up), but we think we found the most adequate of the bunch and here they are!

* Except for maybe the guy that went so hard in the mosh pit that he lost his shoe. He might have had more fun than pretty much anybody.
** Said beer was, incidentally, made for the band that chugged the hot sauce on stage. They earned that shit.
*** We've known several of the people in The Guilloteenagers for years, but this was the first year they played at the party and it's really everyone's loss that they didn't make it onto the roster sooner.
**** And ends-of-years and milestone batches and double coupon days at the grocery store and... we introspect a lot, okay?

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