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In Which We Climb Candy Mountain

10/27/2021

Howdy friends! The most spooktacular time of year is upon us and we got a whole weekend fulla spooky sweets and eats and good beer and good times galore, so check out all this cool stuff we're doing for you!

Including, but not limited to, blending a fuckton (possibly two fucktons!) of new barrel aged beers for you!

But first! We wanted to announce (or re-announce, I guess) the winners of last week's dog costume contest! We had a whole bunch of completely adorable entries which meant that we had a super hard time narrowing down the winners (and we may have declared an extra winner or two because of that) but anyway here they are:

Sprouts as Bone Up's #1 Fan - "Best Pandering to the Judges"
Ozzy as a Summer BBQ - "Best Group Costume"
Pumpkin as her owner Josh - "Best Josh Costume"
Rivers as the Skeleton Crew - "Best Skeleton Theme"

For all the very adorable entries, check out the featured story on Instagram that we made!

Aaaaand then we gotta take a quick detour away* from Spooktacular City for a quick backtrack to Beer Town! More to the point, we've got Joybringer and its barrel-aged cousin Joyrider back in bottles! As of, um, several weeks ago, because we kinda-sorta forgot to tell you (which is weird because they're some of our favorite beers and we're quite excited to have them back) but the real point is that they're available right now and you should drink them!

Double tripel threat

And while we're talking about beer, we've got a very special spooktacular cask for you this Thursday! It features a relatively new addition to the draft list (Emerald Spire) with a hop we've grown quite fond of (Triple Pearl)! Emerald Spire is hella tasty and we're bettin' that the punchy orangey notes brought in by Triple Pearl will liven it up even more and anyway it gon' be good!

OOooooOOOooo, spooky! Sorta.
OK fine, we didn't think to make a special Halloween cask and Kelly isn't on cask until next week.

And speaking of the spooktacular, we'll be doin' our (mostly)** annual spooktacular beer and candy pairing all weekend! We went through the grueling task*** of pairing each of the beers on our draft list with two different Halloween candies (one chocolate, one non-chocolate) and now you get to reap the benefits of our pain! We've got some special beer-and-candy pairing flights available (and if we didn't name one of them The Tooth Destroyer we really missed an opportunity there) and anyway it starts on Thursday and runs through the weekend so you should come out!

We did the research, y'all get to reap the benefits

And then movin' right along to Friday we're doin' another hell night! We're bringin' in our pals from brato for some spooktacular spice and they're bringin' the heat with a menu chock full of super spicy stuff!

Also on Friday we've got a spooktacular book signing! Local author and friend of the brewery Michael Cloherty wrote Abel Bodied: Murder at the Malden Bank which tells the tale of a bank robbery gone deadly wrong (and which happens to be the first bank robbery murder in the country) and he'll be in our taproom selling and/or signing copies!

And speaking of Friday and/or Saturday, this weekend we're doin' up a trick-or-treat-themed event with our friends from the fermentation district (and beyond)! All the Everett breweries (and the lone distillery in town) will be doin' beer and candy pairings and givin' out swag and there'll be some of those passport cards you can get stamped at every location and it's gonna be a good time, so come on out and trick or treat - "adult style"!****

And just in case you didn't get enough sweets by Sunday, or if you're lookin' for something fun to do on Halloween Itself, we're bringin' in our friends from TC Scoops to set up a sundae bar! This one really doesn't need much explanation except that we should point out that we regularly dream about their apple pie ice cream. It's so good, you guys!

Come get candy-drunk!

And! Lookin' a little further into the future, next Thursday is the next installment of Audio Triviality! And since Matt wasn't super keen on trying to make an entire trivia night that ties together the concepts of "Thanksgiving" and "heavy metal" (since, let's be serious, there are only so many metal songs about ham) he decided that it would be all Motörhead! So come on out and test your knowledge of Lemmy and, uh, the other people that were probably in the band (we're probably gonna lose even harder than we usually do) and drink some beers and hang out with us! Bonetown BBQ will be slingin' delectable dinner options all night, so come by early if you wanna eat!

Fuck yeah

* I mean, unless you consider "forgetting things" to be spooky. The steady march of time and its attendant age-related foibles is certainly no laughing matter. Except when it is.
** We... kind of completely dropped the ball one year. 2017 was chaotic to say the least.
*** I know I say this every year, but it's not nearly as fun as it sounds. Everybody leaves the table feeling pretty gross and - at least judging from the lack of eye contact among literally anyone at the end of the session - maybe a little ashamed of themselves.
**** We... we were not the ones who named this event.

In Which the Times, They Are Spooktacular

10/20/2021

Howdy-do camperoos! We got us a rootin'-tootin'-sure-shootin' roundup o' spooktacular good times and good tastes, so pull up an internet and see what we got goin' on!

First on up - this Thursday - is our trusty weekly cask! We thought it would be the best of times to take a House Favorite on cask (namely Extra Naked) and "goose it up" with a little bit of a "newcomer" to the ol' hop fridge (namely Emerald Spire) and wouldntcha know it but we've got a tasty tipple on our hands! This tasty lil' sucker's goin' on tap in a day or so and when it's gone it's gone, so we dang well recommend gettin' while there's gettin' to be got!

And then on Friday we don't have any new beers (for once), but we do have some tasty-ass pastelitos gracing our taproom (courtesy of our friends at Matilda's), so you should come on out and show some love!

Then on Saturday we're straight-up triplin' down on events and that all benefits you so check it out!

First and/or foremost, on Saturday we're hosting our Howl-o-ween Costume Contest! We may be a minute away from Hallows Eve, but still we beseech you to bring your dolled-up pups to compete in our costume contest! We're gonna have treats and toys and we're partnerin' up with a rescue and there'll be people food (which we'll get to in a minute) and it's honestly gonna be the cutest thing you'll see in a dang ol' while so come on out and check it out!

And if you're maybe not the "dog treats for lunch" type (understandable), we're gonna have The Nada Cart poppin' up all day to provide tasty eats for all the "human companions" (and/or "normal people") that are hangin' out! It's win win!

And while we're talkin' about Saturday, on Saturday evening, we're hosting our new friends from Dzö-nga for a release party! You may recall that we made a beer for/with them that came out a week or so ago,* but we didn't really get to shout/party about it, so now we're gonna shout/party about it! The band is gonna come by and we're gonna listen to their music for the evening and we're gonna drink some Sachem's Ale with them and it's gonna be a good time! They've also hinted that they might play a song or two, but only - and I'm reading between the lines here - if they "get badgered by a bunch of drunk people." So you know what to do!

Anyway. Moving on from metal friends, this Sunday we've got another cooking class! And - you guessed it - it's the far-and-away most popular cooking class that we've hosted: sushi making! At this point, we don't even need to try and jazz you up on this class because everybody who takes it ends up loving Chef Harold and also he gives us free soup and also he's kind of the nicest person? Anyway, the sushi class is probably definitely a lot of fun, which is good because we're hosting it again on Wednesday too!

Grab sushi tickets here: Sushi Making 101

And speaking of things that are fun, we've got the return of another fun-as-hell cooking class on Tuesday and that's Ravioli Techniques! And while it might not have the apparent "zazz" that you expect from a cooking class at a brewery, every post-class attendee that we've talked to has left the class with a newfound love/appreciation for ravioli and honestly that's pretty incredible. Seems like it would take a lot to get people excited about ravioli,** but they pull it off and it seems like a buncha delicious fun!

Grab ravioli tickets here: Ravioli Techniques

And that's about it for the current week but if you want to read about all the stuff we got goin' on next then oh dang oh man we gotta catch our collective breath a bit because

-On Thursday (October 28) (also known as "not this Thursday") we're startin' up our beer and candy pairing! Long story short: beers (particularly those in our Halloween Flights) will be paired with their "candy soulmate(s)" for the weekend.

-On Friday (October 29) we'll be doin' Inferno Night with Brato! And since that more-or-less amounts to a buncha spicy food (with beer) (and also with candy) we figured we'd invite our friend Michael Cloherty in to do a signing for his (relatively) recently-released book: Abel Bodied!

-And if that weren't enough for ya, we're also collaboratin' with our Everett contemporaries (Aeronaut Cannery, Short Path Distilling, Night Shift Brewing, and Bearmoose) to do a good-ol'-fashioned neighborhood bar crawl! On Friday and Saturday (October 29-30) we'll all be doin' neighborhood drink passports and candy pairings (and pastelitos of course) and giveaways and all sortsa fun times and you should come!

-And. AND. Just in case you're burned out on/overwhelmed by all the Halloween Madness that's goin' on out there, next Sunday (October 31) we're bringin' in our friends from T.C. Scoops to do a full-on Halloween sundae bar! To be perfectly honest with you, you're missing out if you haven't had their ice cream yet. It is - at worst - fantastic, and this is one of the last times of the year to getcha some, so come getcha some!

* Not gonna lie, my sense of time is messed up enough that I'd believe you if you told me we released that beer six months ago. Or six hours. Things have been weird lately, okay?
** Not unlike that one Simpsons episode where a yo-yo demonstration gets all the students to be extremely excited about yo-yo-ing for like a week

In Which We Drink Some Green Smoothie

10/13/2021

Howdy friends! We're back in action with the spooktacular suds and good times galore so read on and read up!

We predict this will be one helluva chocolate bomb

First on up is the continued continuation of our weekly Thursday cask program and this week it just so happens to be one that we're damn excited about. DAMN excited. Anyway I won't bury that ol' lede any further because sooner or later you're gonna figure out that it's Sato! This beer quickly became a favorite of ours (and, to be perfectly frank, we've been flying through it, which means that a buncha y'all agree with us on that one) and now we get to try it on cask!

Come win silly prizes, all while berating Chris!

And while we're talkin' about spooktacular good times on Thursday, this Thursday also brings the return of Simpsons trivia! Yes indeedy, it's been a dang ol' while but Chris is takin' up his post behind the mic once more and gettin' right back on that horse with the spooktacular return of Brewhouse of Horror! As you might have guessed, it's laser-focused on the Treehouse of Horror episodes of The Simpsons and there's gonna be good times and goofy prizes and beers and laughs and friendship and you should come!

Mystery beer, for your helf

But bringin' things back to beer for a hot second, we've got some new beer! It's been a hot minute since we brewed a "misfit IPA" (where we gather up all our odds 'n ends from the bottom of the hop freezer and throw them all into one beer) so we brewed a misfit IPA! We named it Green Smoothie Redux as a nod to the first time we brewed this silly-ass beer* and it's on draft soon. Probably today! Unless something goes wrong! Anyway it's got like thirty different hops in it and Justin is still mad at me for making him write them all down, so enjoy!

Just a happy lil' pale ale. Nothing more, nothing less.

But wait! I have more beer to talk about! In a spate of spooktacular serendipity, we've got another new beer coming out on draft this week! Probably Friday! This one's a pale ale we brewed with a relatively-new-to-us hop named Emerald Spire whose beguilingly fruity aromatics managed to capture our hearts and/or imaginations when we used it in a cask a little ways back. Anyway it's tasty and you should have some!

And speaking of things that are tasty, we got some tasty eats lined up for the weekend - check 'em out!

Oh! And! Since y'all seem to be diggin' on the cooking classes, we're hosting more cooking classes! We've got sushi making coming up on Tuesday and Ten Types of Pasta on Wednesday and they're hella fun and you should come join us!

Buy sushi class tix here: Sushi Making 101
Buy pasta class tix here: Handmade Pasta Class

She LOVES her pig costume

And did somebody say "spooktacular?" No? Oh. Well if you're lookin' for some spooktacular good times a little farther in the future, you might be interested to know that our Howl-o-ween dog costume contest is on Saturday 10/23! We're teamin' up with Harvey's Hope Rescue to raise some cash (we'll be donating $1/pour during the event, so all you have to do is show up and drink for a good cause!), plus we'll be givin' out prizes to the best-dressed pooches and also The 'Nada Cart will be there with some tasty eats and it's gonna be a good time!

* No, it's not the same recipe as the original Green Smoothie. We don't KNOW the recipe, that was the point.

In Which the Good Times, They Just Keep Comin'

10/6/2021

Well hello again! I hope you're having a spooktacular week! We've got a buncha spooktacular stuff lined up for y'all and also maybe some Boring Admin Stuff to get out of the way first so let's cut to the jib of the brass tacks!

And by brass tacks, we mean AXES

And I know I said I was gonna get the boring shit out of the way, but I'm too excited about cask! So let's talk about cask!

We will tap a cask this week and it will be good. That is all.

Seriously though, this Thursday we're tappin' a spooktacular cask of Sunday Plans! You may have overlooked this tasty little number on our menu because amber ales are kind of Old Man Beer, but that is a mistake because this beer is delicious and we threw a buncha Olde Schoole Hops in there (specifically chinook and comet) and - as previously mentioned - it will be good! Very good!

Get ready for us to play, like, way too much Misfits and Helloween

And if you're lookin' for some spooktacular good times while you're drinkin' that cask, this Thursday is also this month's installment of our music-themed trivia night: Audio Triviality! Matt's got a buncha Halloween and/or music-related questions lined up for ya and we've probably got some thematically-appropriate stupid prizes (although we almost definitely gave away that bag of skulls we had kickin' around) and it's gonna be fun and you should come!

Anyway while we're talkin' about Thursday, this Thursday is the first day of our new winter hours! Long story short, now we open at 3 instead of 12 on Thursdays because lunch beers are less popular when it's cold out.

And speaking of it being cold out, your hands will thank you for using these lovely little can sweaters.

And speaking of it being October, for the month of October we're running a Spooktacular Crowler Deal! Or something! We felt like crowlers* weren't getting the love they deserve, so for the month of October (and/or while supplies last) all crowler purchases come with a crowler-sized koozie! Now you can walk around with a comically-large can of beer in style.

Meeshmeeshmeeshmeesheeshmeesh

And since we're talking about beers on draft, we've got a new beer on draft coming out this week! Possibly today! This one's called Meesh Meesh and it's made with pink guava and apricot ("Meesh Meesh" is Hebrew for "apricot," or at least that's what we've been told**) and it's a collab with a Friend Of The Brewery who owns and/or operates an unknown (but fairly large) number of restaurants. Seriously, we asked him and he was not able to give us a number.*** Anyway, a lot of this beer will end up on tap at one of more of those restaurants (most notably Simcha - an Israeli restaurant in Sharon whose menu sounds incredible) but also we get to serve a bit, so come grab some!

You deserve it, you made it through another week

And moving right on into the weekend we've got the return of two Taproom Favorite popups - Matilda's Pastelito's on Friday and Mr. Tamole on Saturday! We've already said a million jillion great things about Matilda's because they're awesome people and their food is very very good, but also we feel like we have a moral obligation to tell you how good Mr. Tamole's mole chicken is. We're honestly considering getting a strait jacket for Jared so he doesn't fugue out and go full-on Garfield on all of it. It's... it's just so good, you guys.

And while we're talkin' about Future Fun, we've got some fun! In the future! More to the point, we've got a couple events comin' up next week that happen to be happenin' around Blog Post O'Clock so we figured we'd give you the skinny on the deets a bit early!

It's like our coloring contest, but fancy!

First on up, next Wednesday, we've got our friends from Sip & Script comin' in to host a calligraphy class! We honestly don't know a ton about calligraphing**** but it sounds like a bunch of fun, and that's coming from somebody whose handwriting is "people assume I have neurological problems" levels of bad. Anyway it should be fun so you should come!

Grab tickets here: Sip & Script Calligraphy

If you were wondering, yes, we will be working the word "spooktacular" into as many paragraphs as possible

And next Thursday we've got another spooktacular trivia night! If you're less the "metalhead" type and more the "obsessive Simpsons fan" type (which are, admittedly, two very specific types that honestly overlap more than you'd think), you should come on out! We've got Chris back in the house with his Simpsons-themed trivia for the first time in a year and a half and it's comin' back strong with the spooktacular Brewhouse of Horror! It's gonna be a buncha fun and winners may or may not end up winning some weird crap that we bought at Chuck E Cheese during the worst part of the pandemic (sorry, the worst part so far) but either way you should come on out!

@chambersmaddy, “Ben Madore,” @allieabbott @punkgoesweab @rbattino @amykeating

Oh! And! Lastly! We've got winners and runners-up from last month's coloring contest! Adequate work, everyone!

* For legal reasons we're supposed to call them "crowler-style cans." But for not-sounding-like-dipshits reasons, we don't do that.
** Due to our policy of not looking things up, we have not looked this up.
*** When trying to come up with this number he kept saying things like "...and that's another concept I'm involved in" and we were too polite to ask him what the hell he means by "concept" in this context, because we really don't know.
**** I don't... what's the verb for "calligraphy?"

In Which We Climb Candy Mountain

In Which the Times, They Are Spooktacular

In Which We Drink Some Green Smoothie

In Which the Good Times, They Just Keep Comin'

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