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In Which Pobody's Nerfect

9/28/2022

Oh hi! How are you? We're just right-dandy, thanks for asking! And just why are we so ding-dang dandy, you ask? Why, it's because we've got a whole buncha cool stuff goin' on! We've got even more new beers for you (two, possibly three, to be precise) and we've got some cool-as-hell events that are just a taste of a month* that's wall-to-wall packed with fun stuff, so anyway let's get to it!

As our trusty-as-ever first line item, we've got new beers! This week we've got another pair of wedding beers, only for these we definitely do not recommend mixing them into a beertail. I mean, do what you want, but we did warn you. Anyway, these here beers were made to celebrate the nuptials of our friends Dylan and Caroline and the beers themselves are Pobody's Nerfect - a Belgian stout whose recipe was based on one of Dylan's homebrew recipes - and Hench 4 Life - a saison brewed with lemon peel and sage - and they're both downright tasty and they're gonna be on draft starting on Saturday and you should come try them!

Also, as a programming note, our beer garden is rented out from 7-close on Saturday for Dylan and Caroline's wedding afterparty (there was talk of live music as well).

The taproom and side room will both be open to the public!

And speaking of beer, cask returns this week! We're still gettin' into the "swing" of being able to have a cask on a regular basis, but we've got a tasty lil' pin of Extra Naked (with an extra dry hop charge of Chinook) on the beer engine starting Thursday at openin' time!

And movin' right on to fun events, we've got Band Hangouts on Friday! This month we're bringin' in a buncha cool pals who played at (or were supposed to play at) our anniversary party, namely Crowfeeder and Blue Manic and Attest, and they're gonna be hangin' out and slingin' merch and drinkin' beer** and also Gordita Birria Tacos is gonna be in the house slingin' tacos and it's gonna be a good time and you should come hang out!

We've missed our band hangs!

And speaking of Friday, we (specifically Liz and Jared) are gonna be doin' a popup tasting at Seabiscuit in Eastie Friday evening, so swing on by if you're in the neighborhood!

And then on Saturday morning we've got Crystal back in the house and this time she's leading people in some Black Sabbath Yoga! It's an all-levels class starting at 10:30 and then later in the day (starting at 6) we've got Adriano's Tacos comin' by!

That's right. Double taco weekend!

Then on Sunday (and also Wednesday) we've got our regularly-scheduled sushi classes with Chef Harold! You probably already knew about these, but they're fun as hell and we're stoked to host him, so we're gonna keep shoutin' about it!

Sam approves

And speaking of the future, next Thursday we've got Halloween Music Trivia! It's sure to be a spooktacular night full of brain busters and spooky sounds and good times and you should come out!

SPOOK. TACULAR.

* Specifically October, the most spooktacular month of the year. Holy crap we've got so much cool shit happening in October.
** Sadly, we did not squirrel away any cases of Blue Manic (the beer) for this event.

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In Which Things Get (October)Fuzzy

9/21/2022

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Hello again! We're back in action with a buncha fun times and also some new beers (FINALLY. It's been, like, a week since we've had a new beer) and anyway I'm gonna stop talking about all the cool stuff we got goin' on, and start talking about all the cool stuff we got goin' on!

And first on that list, as always, is new beer! This here's a pair of beers that we're just completely dang ol' stoked about and that means wedding beers! Yes indeedy, friends of the brewery (and also Liz and Jared's neighbors at home) Maggie and Nick are gettin' hitched and we brewed up some beers for 'em! For Maggie we made a nice 'n light grisette with a pinch of hibiscus and a punch of plum and we called it Mag-nificent Chemistry and for Nick we went with a nice ' fruity hazy IPA called CPHaze, and to "sweeten the deal" these beers are made to be blended into a beertail that we're callin' Better Together! And what's more, the happy couple was kind enough to let us release the beers before the wedding** (which is in a week) and that means they'll be out on Saturday (or maybe Friday afternoon/evening if we've got our shit together) and you should come drink some!

Ughhhh cutest collab evaaarrrr

And movin' on to fun times, we've got some fun times for you! We're startin' off on Thursday with a terrarium workshop! A ticket gets you all the supplies you need (vessel, rocks, plants, dirt, and probably some other nature stuff) and there will be some instruction and then you get to hang out and drink beer and play with dirt and then you get to go home with a full-fledged terrarium! It's a bit off the beaten path, but it's a buncha fun and you should join us!

Come make dirt art with us!

And then on Friday we've got Al Ghanekar and friends in the house for some comedy! We'll be transforming our side room (which, at a previous comedy performance, was described as looking like "Hell's waiting room," which was maybe supposed to be an insult but we were super proud of that description?) into the world's tiniest theater and there's gonna be laughs galore! Tickets are limited (on account of the whole "world's tiniest theater" thing), so snag one soon if you wanna come get your giggle on!

Enjoying the search instructions on the ticketing portion of this poster

And then! Saturday! We decided to take Oktoberfest (which has totally been done before) and put our own "spin" on it (which is definitely a 100% unique idea that has never been done by anyone before ever. You can take my word for it, you don't even have to look it up) and anyway that's Octoberfuzz! We teamed up with Somergloom (the folks who run the rad fest of the same name) and we got a bunch of awesome doom and psych bands to come play in the beer garden! We're gonna be rockin' out* to the sounds of Sundrifter and Coma Hole and Kind and Major Stars and Electric Street Queens - the tunes start at 4 and tickets are only ten bucks, so come on by and hang with us!

Seriously who needs the effort of a stein holding contest

Oh! And! I almost forgot - we've also got some food vendors in the house this weekend! On Friday we've got El Barbon Tacos slingin' tacos startin' at 6, then on Saturday we've got Sandwich Boy in the house from 2-6, so come eat snacks with us!

Tasty times ahoy!

And then next Friday we've got the September installment of Band Hangouts! This time around we wanted to feature some bands from our anniversary show last month (and also one band that was supposed to play the anniversary but couldn't) since the anniversary was maybe a wee bit chaotic, so we've got Crowfeeder and Attest and Blue Manic in the house and they'll be hangin' out and slingin' swag and it's gonna be a good time!

FRENS

* Slowly bobbing our heads and maybe swaying a bit
** We're pretty relieved they let us release these beers early, because we have two different wedding beers we're releasing next week

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In Which We Enjoy the Last Daze of Summer

9/14/2022

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Howdy-do kids and squids! As always, we've got a week jam-packed fulla fun times lined up for you, even if this is the rare week when we don't have new beer(s) to announce (and also this is an off-week for cask*) and anyway let's get on with it!

And first on up is something cool as hell that's ongoing right now and that's a beer and CD combo deal! See, when we were brewing beers for our anniversary party, we named Worshipper's beer after their 2018 EP Mirage Daze - partly because it's a great record but also partly because we thought it was a cool name - and anyway our new friends in Worshipper thought that was pretty rad, so now if you buy Mirage Daze (the beer) in the taproom, you can get Mirage Daze (the CD) for an extra two bucks! Anyway the point is that it's a very good EP and also a very good beer and you should buy both of them.

The EP is definitely upside down on purpose in this picture

Anyway movin' on into some fun times, on Wednesday (which I'm told is today) we're hosting 80's/90's Pop Culture Trivia! It's a pretty big swath of time, but there was some damn memorable stuff goin' on at the time, so grab them Hammer pants outta the back of your closet and come hang out!

And then on Thursday we've got Inebri-Art in the house for some beer mug painting! Twenty bucks gets you a mug and all the painting supplies you'll need and it sounds like a rad way to spend the evening, so come paint with us!

Moving on to Friday, we've got ice cream! Yes indeedy, Blanche's Ice Cream is bringin' their truck back around with some frozen treats for y'all to enjoy in the last days of this year's warm summer nights and also they've usually got ice cream tacos and anyway it's gonna be tasty times!

Then on Saturday we're once again gettin' an early (as in, 10:30 or so) start for some beer garden yoga! (Or taproom yoga depending on the weather) And as an added bonus, 100% of ticket sales will be donated to Healthy & Free Tennessee, a network of organizations working together to fight for reproductive freedom and sexual health in Tennessee (a state with a total abortion ban), so come do some yoga for a good cause!

And gettin' on to Sunday, in addition to our regularly-scheduled sushi class we've got our friend Matt Heaton comin' by for some Surf Guitar Happy Hour! There's not a lot of better ways to spend an afternoon than listening to surf rock and sippin' on some beers, but you ain't gotta take *our* word for it because you can and should do just that this weekend!

Those things we just said, but in picture form

And then movin' on to the heady days of next week, we've got some cool stuff lined up next week! Next Thursday (9/22) we're hosting a terrarium workshop (which is honestly a lot of fun. Like, a bunch more fun than it sounds, and it sounds pretty cool) and then on Friday (9/23) we've got Al Ghanekar and friends in the house doin' some stand up comedy and then after that on Saturday (9/24) we're hosting another show! This time around we teamed up with Somergloom to get a buncha rad doom and psych bands (namely Sundrifter, Major Stars, Kind, Coma Hole, and Electric Street Queens) and they'll be playin' out into the beer garden and we're callin' the event Oktoberfuzz and it's gonna be completely fun as heck! It's also worth noting that this will be our first-ever ticketed show in the beer garden (tickets are only $10! For five bands! That's, like, $2 per band!), so plan accordingly etc.

Anniversary encore? Anniversary encore!

But Wait! There's more! We'll be reppin' at a couple events "out in the world" this weekend! On Friday we'll be at the Dedham Museum for Tavern Night! We don't get to go to a lot of beer fests inside of museums, so this one's a pretty rad change of pace for us. Then on Saturday we'll be up in Gloucester (specifically Stage Fort Park, which we're assured has a killer view) for the Blackburn Brewfest! Anyway the point is that if you're outside of the paradise that is our taproom/beer garden this weekend, you should swing by these events and say hi!

* I know, I know. Frown at me all you want, but it takes time to make casks, and there's been a lack of caskable beers in the tanks these past few weeks.

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In Which it is Sip Time. And Pumpkin Time. And Fest Time.

9/7/2022

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Well hey there! It's that time again to get into all the cool stuff we got goin' on and we got some new beers for y'all and honestly how in the hell do we have more new beers. We made so many beers for that party. And now there are more. How.

Because we're awesome, that's how

But before we get to all that new beer we're gonna start with a bit of a twist and that's cask! More to the point, it's Extra Naked (the best ever beer on cask, a beer which has appeared on cask at the dang GBBF, which is still exciting/baffling to us, but that's a different story) and we juiced it up with some juicy ol' BRU-1 (which is... not a good name for a hop. There are some bad hop names out there, and this is one of them) and it's slated to get tapped in our regular cask tappin' timeslot and that's Thursday and you should come have some with us!

Proof that our humble little table beer did, in fact, make it to the Great British Beer Festival

Anyway the first new beer what we got is a bit of a "secret beer" that we "have by accident" because we are "bad at planning." Anyway it's an Extremely Limited Release (there's, like, one keg of it) which means we don't care too much if it has an extremely stupid name* and that's why we're callin' it Pumpkin Humor! As you may remember from a previous blog post, Dark Humor is a blend of two beers - one is a vanilla-cinnamon stout (which was also released under the name Dark Humor, but that was a year ago) with the other being a spice-forward pumpkin stout. Anyway we had a little extra of that spice-forward pumpkin stout and it's pretty durn tasty so we figured we'd just tap it and see what happens and what happened is it's on tap right now!

Brewed "with" pumpkin

And movin' right along, we've somehow got another dang ol' new beer! This one's a wedding beer** that we made for former/kind-of-current employee (and/or one of our DIY "sound engineers" for the anniversary party) JackJohn and his lovely wife Kelly (not that Kelly) and it's a lovely lil' hoppy saison and also this might be the first beer we've made that features a cat on the label and anyway it's tasty as hell and it's available in cans right now and you should have some!

Yes, we have extra labels of the Wedding Cat. Yes, you may have some if you ask Liz

Anyway, gettin' on to the doin', we've got some fun stuff for you to do! And first on that list - this Thursday to be precise - is Simpsons Trivia! We're still doin' the season-by-season thing (this might be the last month for the season-by-season thing? Unclear) which means this month's theme is Season Nine and it's gonna be a hoot and you should come hang out!

And then on Friday we ain't got no big event but we do have two awesome food vendors comin' by! We've got HotChix in the house dishin' up some tasty hot chicken sandwiches, and then to cool the burn we've got Blanche's Ice Cream comin' by! If there's a better way to spend your Friday night than drinking beer and eating fried chicken and ice cream, I sure haven't heard of it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: FUN. TIMES.

And then on Saturday we've got our harvest market! We're bringin' in a buncha rad vendors - namely Joyberry Farms (mushrooms), Drive-By Pies (sweet and savory pies), Craig Sauce (hot sauce), and Valicenti Pasta Farm (fresh pasta and small batch sauces) - and they're gonna be settin' up in the beer garden and slingin' their wares and it's gonna be a hell of a time, so come on out!

Like a fancy grocery run, but with more beer

And movin' on to Sunday we've got the delightful folks from Biscuitdrop back for brunch times! And then later in the day is our first sushi class of the year! Yes indeedy, Chef Harold will be settin' up in our side room and schoolin' people on how to get their maki on and we'll be doin' these twice a week (Wednesdays and Sundays) for a while which means there's really no excuse not to come to one! Get tickets here: Sushi Making 101

We missed you Harold (and not just because of the free miso)

And looking a little farther into the future, we've got 80s/90s Pop Culture Trivia Night next Wednesday and Beer Mug Painting next Thursday and Beer Garden Yoga next Saturday and also a bunch more cool stuff but that's all the stuff that requires tickets and/or planning (and/or it's stuff that's happening the same day we publish the blog).

Seriously, we've got a bunch of cool things happening this month. All events right here

Oh! And! If you happen to be out and/or about somewhere other than our brewery in the next few weeks (not sure why you would go anywhere else, but that's beside the point), we'll be at a couple upcoming fests! We'll be at Ales & Tales at the Stone Zoo this Saturday and then we'll be poppin' by the Dedham Museum for Tavern Night next Friday and then we're schleppin' up to Gloucester for the Blackburn Brew Fest next Saturday! Anyway the point is that these events will be fun as hell and you should swing by if you're in the area!

Go bother Jared at ALL these events

* This phrasing might be misleading. We prefer beers to have extremely stupid names, but in this case it's immaterial one way or the other.
** Spoiler alert: this is the first of FIVE wedding beers we'll be releasing over the course of the month. Turns out September is *the* month to get married in.

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