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In Which We Get Candy-Drunk

10/29/2019

Hi Kids! We sure do hope you had fun gettin' your pups all dolled up and trottin' them around our "beer garden" for the day (and/or we hope you had fun observing our dog party from the safety of the patio, if that's more your jam), because we sure as heck had a blast, which means we're gonna have to put on the ol' "thinkin' caps" and get goin' on more canine carnivals! Anyway, we must look forward, not backward, so let's cut that ol' shuck and jive and get on with future good times!

But not before you look at some Very Good Dogs in costumes.

Not pictured: AsparaGUS

First and/or foremost, we're gettin' into the Spooktacular Spirit this week with Beer and Candy Pairings all dang day on Wednesday and Thursday! In short, a number of our Seasoned Experts* sat around for several hours eating candy and drinking beer** and developing the perfect pairings for all the beers on our menu and when you order beers on Weds/Thurs (including, but not limited to, flights), you get candy! More specifically, you get the candy that pairs with your beer(s), which means we'll get to turn a lot of people on to the magic that is Key Lime paired with peppermint patties (no, seriously, it's like a weird mojito).

We're pretty sure Ben blurted the pairing out to mess with Darcy, but dammit when it works, it works.

Also on Wednesday we're doin' another retro video game night with Wicked Retro Games, which means you get to eat candy and play video games until your teeth rot and your brains leak out your ears and oh man your ten-year-old self would be so proud of you.

And while we're on about sweets, on Thursday we're revvin' up the ol' beer engine and this time 'round we figured we'd do something Seasonally Appropriate*** and tap a cask fortified with cocoa nibs and this time we're gettin' Real**** with Rufus! Thassright, we took a buncha single-origin cocoa nibs and jammed 'em all up in that Rufus cask and now you can have some!

Come. Sit. Stay.

Speakin' of all the spooktacular stuff we're doin' on Thursday: we're gonna have Boogels! Yessir, the fine folks at Goldilox Bagels are gettin' spooktacular and settin' up shop here on Thursday! And what, praytell, is so spooky about these bagels, you ask? Well, we put the word "boo" right there in the title.

Pretty spooky stuff.

But back to sweets for a minute ('tis the season), our pals at T.C. Scoops wanted to beer and ice cream flights, so we're doin' beer and ice cream flights on Friday!

Then on Saturday we're back to savory with Eat More, Mexican! comin' through and slingin' burritos all afternoon!

They're so good you guys

Oh! And we gotta announce this month's coloring contest winners! Adequate jorb, everyone!

Our first place winner, Rachel!

Our runners up!

* People who wanted free candy.
** It sounds like a lot of fun to do this, then you do it and you realize that you already feel hella gross and it's not even halfway done yet.
*** Surprising nobody, this is actually a complete coincidence.
**** Real ALE, that is. I'll see myself out.

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More Beers About Buildings and Food

10/23/2019

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Howdy howdy howdy! It's almost time for our dang ol' dog party, but before we can get to all that we gotta get through a whole buncha other fun stuff and some tasty beers (and maybe some tasty new beers if you're good). Life can be hard sometimes, but hey - that's why cask ale was invented.

Is it Fake NERAX time yet or what

Did somebody say cask? Because we got a cask goin' on this Thursday (much like we do most Thursdays, now that you mention it) and this time around it's toasty ol' Rufus! Ain't much I need to say about Rufus so there ain't much I'm gonna say except that it gon' be tasty!

We're bettin' all that chocolately, biscuity goodness is gonna be dialed up to 11.

Then we're keepin' up the hip haps on Friday with the release of Wellington! What's Wellington, you ask? It's a hoppy beer! And who doesn't like hoppy beer? (Maybe jerks? I dunno, we're not in the business of knowing what jerks like) Anyway we teamed up with our landlords from our apartment building and suckered them into doing all our work for us and now we have this thing!

It's a bit more on the hazy/hoppy/juicy end of the spectrum than we usually go, but hey sometimes you just gotta jam a buncha lupulin all up in there

And to go along with that ol' new beer on Friday, we're bringin' in an old favorite for food: Matilda's! They'll be here for the evening doin' what they do best and what they do best is make pastelitos and we're gonna eat some!

GUH

And then Saturday is the day we've all been waiting for: the release of yet another beer named after a building! There's also the dog party (we'll get to that, keep your shirt on), but we collabbed up some collab times with our friends from T'ahpas 529 and brewed up a tasty lil' sneaky-strong hoppy farmhouse with passionfruit and it's named Los Aromos!*

Say it. It's really fun to say!

And since we're releasin' that beer on Saturday, we're bringin' in T'ahpas for food from 3 - 8! Their food is tasty as heck and if they don't bring something to pair with the beer we made for/with them we will do what we always do and just pretend that they did because that's apparently how manners works.

Definitely the menu they are bringing and not a picture we borrowed from their Instagram.
(I can tell you we were promised nachos and meatballs and possibly meatball nachos.)

Anyway, also on Saturday we're havin' our dog party! We'll be settin' up shop "beer garden" style (i.e. out in the parking lot) and there's gonna be a dog costume contest (with prizes! But not trophies because it turns out those are pretty hard to get on short notice!) and PolkaDog Bakery will have treats and toys and Beast Coast Design will have treats and fun dog merch and Northeast Animal Shelter will be settin' up shop (they said they might bring dogs but we don't know if they'll be able to bring dogs) and we've got a dog-themed beer on tap (and on cask! Probably!) and it's gonna be a ton of fun and you should join us!

I mean, Lilly's gonna be there in her pineapple suit.

And then on Sunday we're mixin' things up a bit with Halloween Yoga! It's an all-levels class and you're encouraged to come in costume which sounds pretty rad albeit it might make yoga a bit more complicated if you're one of those people who dresses up as, like, post-transformation Violet Beauregarde or whatever, but also that would be very entertaining to watch so you should definitely do that! Anyway it'll be a fun time and tickets come with a flight or a full pour, so come get your yoga on!

Tickets are still available here: Halloween Yoga

Oh! And! One more thing! We are now offering cheese plates daily in our taproom! We’ll still host our monthly cheese and beer pairings, but we just can’t wait weeks in between Cheese Time anymore (and we know you can’t either), so we’ll have a featured cheese or two every month from a local farm served with some crackers and treats, and we’re kicking off this program with two wonderful cheeses from Couet Farm Dudley, MA - Evelina and Karolina. Ask for a plate next time you're in the taproom!

The snack menu embiggens!

* No, it doesn't mean "the aromas." Yes, we had to look it up to be sure.

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In Which There are Tricks (and Treats!)

10/16/2019

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Oh hey there, welcome back! We've been keepin' busy keepin' it real, and (more importantly) we've got a hell of a lot of tasty times and fun treats and fun times and tasty treats and all that good stuff, so read on!

Startin' that ol' Tasty Train off with a bang,* on Wednesday we've got cheese! More to the point, we've got four cheeses from Couët Farm in Dudley, MA and our Expert Cheese Team** has paired up all four with beers from our menu, and dang but it is delectable!

Movin' right on along, this week's trusty Thursday cask is another old favorite: Shut Up Kelly! And since this ol' cask is gettin' tapped during a particularly spooktacular time of year, we goosed it on up with some single-origin cocoa nibs! This time around we're usin' Haitian nibs and the tasting notes we've got are "vanilla, brown sugar, and raisins" which pretty much has "tasty" written all over it and we gon' drink some!

And if you wanna do some spooktacular thinkin' whilst you sup your cocoa cask, we're hosting Halloween-themed trivia on Thursday! That there's a pretty broad topic, so put on your thinkin' pants and then probably just write in "The Great Pumpkin" for every question you don't know the answer to, because it's gotta be right at least once.

Then on Friday we've got one heck of a treat for you, and that's a new art exhibit! We're bidding a fond farewell to Images From The Pit*** and welcoming in Mosh Monsters!**** It's a bit of an artistic change-up for that particular wall, but also it's pretty much completely in line with what we got goin' on around here (which is to say, a buncha rad-ass art), and also he drew us a Horatio monster and we're just so friggin' stoked and you should come check it out! The art's gonna be up for a little while, but we're makin' it a whole thing (as best we can, anyway), so come say hi and look at (or purchase) cool art and/or a coloring book!

And if you somehow needed more reason to swing through on Friday, we're also bringin' back an old favorite popup (who you may remember from possibly our first popup ever): Jaju! They'll be slingin' pierogis all evening and that means it'll smell like fried butter all up ins and there's gonna be tons of good tastes! Woo!

And speaking of good tastes and/or our favorite things, on Saturday we've got HotChix back in the house! They make a mean Hot Chicken and we aim to eat some and you probably should too!

Movin' right along to Sunday, we're doin' pumpkin carving! We got us some tools and some pumpkins and some makeshift tarps and a whole buncha spooktacular beer and we're gonna cut up some gourds! Unlike most of our events, this un's a ticketed 'un, and unlike most of our ticketed events, it's almost sold out! If you wanna get your knife on, I'd step on it: Patio Pumpkin Carving Tickets

Speaking of things that are a spooktacular good time, we're just about a week away from our dog costume contest! Thassright, next Saturday, October 26th, we're settin' up "beer garden" style (by which we mean "drinking in the parking lot") and we want you to get them pups all dressed up and trottin' around and hopefully not destroying their costumes, but probably destroying their costumes (let's be real here) and there's gonna be some dog-themed friends settin' up alongside us (PolkaDog Bakery will have treats and toys, and Beast Coast Design will have treats and fun dog merch!) and we've already got a dog-themed beer on tap and it's gonna be a ton of fun! We'll have tasty eats from T'ahpas 529 from 3-7pm, plus we're releasing a passionfruit farmhouse ale (which we just so happened to brew with T'ahpas). So... no reason to not come out and enjoy a lovely fall weekend?

And looking a bit further forward into the future, we've got something else on the ol' planner that's also gonna be a ton of fun: Pulpo Day! See, we look forward to the annual release of this tasty-ass chocolate orange stout, and we felt the need to celebrate (also, the Horatio Day menu was getting a bit overcrowded with barrel-aged and/or vintage Pulpo)! So what we're gonna do is we're gonna release El Pulpo and (probably) the barrel-aged version (on tap and in bottles) and we're gonna dig through the ol' beerchive and dig out vintage kegs of El Pulpo (including last year's barrel-aged variant), and we're gonna drink them and have a great time! Yaaaaaaaay!

Oh, and speaking of bottles, it's almost bottle time! Keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks, because we've got some "tricks" up our "sleeves" this year...

* That... that's how trains start, right?
** Liz, plus whoever else happens to be trying to get free cheese that day.
*** Which unfortunately overlapped a lot with a time of year when our side room saw little use, since people only want to drink on the patio in the warmer months.
**** I'll thank you in advance to keep your "Monster Mosh" jokes to yourself, however spooktacular you may think they are.

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In Which There Are Dog Beers

10/9/2019

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Howdy do, kids and squids! We got us a fun-filled, treat-filled week tasty things and fun times, so let's get on to it!

First up is the first of two new beers that we done got on tap right now: Mandarinazacca! It's been, like, two whole weeks with only one IPA on the menu* so we rectified that situation right up and jammed a buncha Mandarina Bavaria and Azacca into this beer that nobody will be able to pronounce! Come drink it anyway!

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Speaking of things that need to make a triumphant comeback to our menu, we've got another dog beer on tap! This time around it's a tasty, toasty lil' brown ale named Rufus - so named for a beer lovin' lil' nugget who's gone but not forgotten - and it's on tap right now and of course we're doin' the Special Dog Glass thing again and you should come drink some!

For all the dogs out there who never let a half-finished beer suffer alone, this one's for you!

Movin' right along, we've got a special spooktacular treat for you on Wednesday (which is today): donuts! Speakeasy Donuts is comin' through with some spooktacular sweets, and our collective hump day will be all the better for it, so come getcha some fried 'n' frosted dough tonight!

It's a proven fact that a spike in blood sugar can reverse the effects of a zombie bite.

And while we're on about tasty treats, this week's Thursday cask is one we've been lookin' forward to for a right long while: Biere de Melons! And since we didn't want to hide all that melonny goodness behind some hops, we're servin' this sucker straight-up, just as the beer gods intended!

You best come try some before the staff drinks it all!

Also on Thursday we've got the spooktacular return of our Halloween-themed Simpsons trivia night: Brewhouse of Horror! If you're a fan of some spooky Simpsons and you wanna test that knowledge for the chance to win some weird crap that Jared bought on the internet, come on by!

Wind up eyeballs, anyone?

Then on Friday there's a new one (for us) on the schedule - we're hosting an immersive cyberpunk game in the taproom! We're as curious as you are to see how it all plays out, but it sounds like a cross between interactive theater and an escape room and more to the point it sounds like a good time so you should grab some tickets!

You will make some drama nerd's day!

Also on Friday we're bringin' back a longstanding favorite popup who's been missing from our taproom for way too long (because schedules are weird, man) - Matilda's! They'll be dishin' up some fried deliciousness and that's pretty much all you need to know!

Then for food on Saturday we're bringin' back Matilda's (because schedules are weird, man) and we're gonna eat the everlovin' heck outta a buncha pastelitos!

They are so good you guys!

Then on Sunday we're doin' another cheese pairing! This time around we're bringin' in cheeses from Couët Farms** and we got some right tasty pairings all paired up, so come get cheesy!

This might be our favorite menu yet!

* Oh, the horror! However will you get your IPA flight?
** We had to email them to ask how to pronounce their name. It's "koo-ay," like if a Canadian was telling you what sound a pigeon makes.

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In Which FALL

10/2/2019

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Hello again! We're trudgin' forth into that most spooktacular of months, and we got the good beers and good times to keep you good company as the temperature drops and the phrase "pumpkin spice" starts showing up in a lot of unexpected places (and also a lot of expected places, such as people complaining about all the pumpkin spice) and the leaves have one last disco party before they fall off the trees yet somehow mysteriously only end up in your neighbors yard and anyway it's friggin' fall!

You can finally stop getting weird looks for drinking dark beer!

And while we're ramblin' on about all things spooktacular, we wanna mention early and mention often that at the end of the month (Saturday October 26th, to be precise) we're doin' one last outdoor drinkin' event in the lot and we're havin' a dog costume contest! So bring your furry friends out and see if you can get them to go five whole minutes without destroying that super cute (and apparently very tasty, judging by all the chewing) bumblebee costume or whatever and maybe win a prize!

We're not sure whose dog this is, but we like where their head's at.

Anyway. Back to the here and now, we tapped several new beers over the weekend! Y'all already heard about Half the Time, but we also tapped up a completely different collab beer that also happens to feature large amounts of local honey and that ol' beer is Biere de Melons! See, we brought our beer friends from Saltbox Kitchen/Farm/Brewery over here and brewed up a tasty-ass saison with a buncha local honey and a bigger buncha locally-grown muskmelon* and dang but you should come drink some because it's on tap right now!

Feel free to order it in a fancy voice.

Also on tap right dang now is a different beer that was kinda-sorta made with Saltbox in mind - in the sense that we made it to serve at their upcoming Harvest Festival - and that beer is Champion of the Sun! We wanted to celebrate the harvest without gettin' all "pumpkin spice" on ya, so instead we grabbed up a buncha (local) grains from Valley Malt and (also local) hops from Four Star Farms and brewed up a tasty-ass pale ale!

(AHHAH-AH!)

And speaking of that harvest fest, there's a harvest fest at Saltbox Farm in Concord this Saturday! We'll be there pourin' some delicious delights and there'll be a buncha other breweries and some food and - even better - this fest is being thrown in conjunction with the Black Ale Project (who, as you may have noticed, are rad people and also friends of ours) so a portion of the proceeds goes to a veteran-related charity! So really, there's no reason not to come drink beer with us on a farm.

The one time following the sheep might lead you to beer.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves here, because we got a helluva lotta fun stuff happening before then, starting - as always - with our trusty Thursday cask and this week it's perennial cask favorite Extra Naked! And since we're pretty big on the whole "ain't broke, don't fix it" train, this here cask is hopped up with a heapin' helpin' of glacier! We've done this a time or two before and it is straight-up one of our favorite beers on cask and now you get to have some with us!

Would recommend for these last few days of Patio Times.

Also on Thursday is the Halloween edition of Audio Triviality! Expect a lot of songs featuring Danzig and some actually-thematically-appropriate-for-once stupid prizes and maybe some candy!

Gummy severed hands, anyone?

Movin' right on along to Saturday we got Boston HotChix all up in the house with some Nashville-style hot chicken!

They do it right.

Then on Sunday we're doin' it Old School with Wicked Retro Games and fillin' up our taproom with all them olde tyme consoles you remember so fondly, so come on out and put them hard-earned F-Zero skills to the test!

It'll be just like when you were a kid, but you get to have a beer (or three)!

Oh! And! It's a new month, which means new coloring contest winners! Adequate work, everybody!

Our winner, Kelly K.!

Three runners up! Good jorb, everybody!

*We also had to look up what a "muskmelon" was and it turns out it's basically a fancy cantaloupe.

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