Beers? Check. Snacks? Check. Laserbeams? Check.

Hi friends! Welcome back! We thought you might need some good tastes and fun times in your lives, so we did that up for y'all and now we're here to tell you about it!

First up on our Good Tastes and Good Times Tour, is Marimba - on tap right now! And what's Marimba, you ask? Why it's a tropically hoppy lil' grisette we brewed for the upcoming Original Gravity show (more on that in a bit) and it's nice 'n' dry 'n' fruity with just a touch of resiny pineyness and oh man we are just gonna swig the heck outta this one!

Come and get itttttt

And while we're on about swiggin' (except maybe the opposite of that), we got more Big Fancy Bottles comin' your way! We got all excited to hop on the Bottle Train that we figured we'd just keep on rollin' and what that means for you is a new bottle release every week from now until Horatio Day! 

And the first in this Series O' Deliciousness is our first-ever bottle-conditioned beer, the long-awaited Ginger Extraordinaire! This boozy lil' delight has spent some long weeks and months slumberin' in a rye barrel, and we woke that sucker up with a ginger-infused slap in the face and now you get to drink some! It's got a more gentle mouthfeel from the natural carbonation, but hoo-wee is that the only thing gentle about this beast of a beer - tread carefully, for here be dragons!

Delicious, delicious dragons.

Speaking of things that we enjoy, this Thursday marks the next installment of Audio Triviality! When we asked Matt what the theme would be, he gave us a weird look and mentioned something about how it should be "obvious" so we're gonna assume it's mostly gonna be about ham and ham-themed songs.*

Fingers crossed for ham hocks and ham rock!

Anyway, back to beer for a minute, we got us another cask this week, starting on Thursday! And it's been a dang ol' long time since we've had Kelly grace the handpump with her presence, so we're tappin' a cask of Kelly! No funny business this time, just straight-up delicious cask action!

Pure liquid joy

And if that weren't enough cask for ya, we've got another, slightly different cask of Kelly (fortified with Amandine-soaked oak chips) goin' on tap somewhere else on Friday! More to the point, the sad lack of a NERAX North this year prompted the creation of a new winter cask festival - this time in close-to-home Watertown instead of the far-reaching frozen tundra of Salem or Haverhill like that other fest - and we're pretty durn stoked about it! There's casks from some local people who we ain't seen on cask before (Small Change is gonna be there? Yes please!), plus some pretty cool foreign stuff that we don't get to see too often (zwickel on cask? Sign me up!), so it should be a pretty rad time! Anyway, we'll be there, though not in any official capacity unless you count "hunkering down in the corner and getting increasingly louder with every successive round" to be an "official capacity" (and we do!).

Wheeeee!

Anyway. Beer. Here. There's beer! Here! And soon there's gonna be more! As a follow-up to our much-loved and short-lived Super IPA, Danzig, we brewed up another beer in a similar spirit: Doyle Brutal IPA! It's gonna be on tap at Home Base starting at some point on Friday, so come on out and get Brutal with us!

Any guesses as to what's next in this series?

Speaking of tasty things on Friday, we gon' have pierogis!** We got Jaju in the house all evening dishin' out the butter-fried dumplings and the dollops of sour cream and oh man I'm hungry just thinking about it.

Feast!

And while we're on about eats in the taproom, on Saturday we've got Speakeasy Donuts swingin' through for the afternoon! These folks are new to us in the taproom, but they sure as heck ain't new to our tastebuds because they do some crazy cool stuff with donuts and we're right chuffed to be hosting them!

I bet the figgy pudding donut is gonna be right pleasant with Biere de Krampus, just sayin'

Also on Saturday, should you decide to brave the mean streets of Brookline, we're gonna be at the Original Gravity show (which you may remember from several paragraphs ago)! The skinny of the gist is that the folks at OG put on a show featuring music from local composers whose music is paired with beers from local breweries. Our piece was "Incite" by Dan VanHassel and - as is our wont around here - we set the song on repeat and let the sounds write the recipe for us and in this case we came up with Marimba! So if that sounds like a cool event to you, or if you just want to see Jared be bad*** at public speaking, come on out!

It is unclear whether the pug in reading glasses will be attending

One final note on fun things, gettin' a bit further into Future Times, we'd like to put forth another (of many more to come) gentle reminder about our birthday-party-for-a-cartoon-turned-barrel-aged-beer-fest: Horatio Day! And as we mentioned before, there's gonna be hella beer and bacon and mac 'n' cheese and shenanigans, but we feel the need to stress one aspect of this day that we largely glossed over last time: the Horatio Costume Contest! See, we feel that the only appropriate way to celebrate somebody's birthday is by dressing up like them, so we're makin' that a part of our celebration! And I know we've got some pretty serious costumers**** out there, but we encourage you to dress up even if you're not completely in it to win it - nothing would bring us more joy than seeing a sea of Horatios milling about the taproom.

It tickles us just thinkin' about it

Oh! And in all that excitement we almost forgot to tell you who won the coloring contest this month! It was Amanda!

Adequate job, Amanda!

Our runners up!

* Does ham have a theme song? It should. Maybe something played on an organ that's set up so that every note almost (but not quite) sounds like somebody saying "ham."
** Or is the plural just "pierogi"? Whatever. Dumplings. 
*** Like, just the worst.
**** That's almost definitely not the right word, but I'm not gonna look it up because I feel like that's an internet rabbit hole that might be best avoided.