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In Which Some Drywall Goes Up

2/1/2023

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Well hey there! We're back at it with more fun times and good beer and tasty eats and also some "news" that you've "probably already heard about" (it's about our upcoming/ongoing taproom expansion) but we'll get to that bit after all the stuff in the here and/or now, so read up and check out all the cool stuff we're doin' this week!

And first on the list of cool and/or tasty stuff is cask! This time around we took a pin of Shut Up Kelly! and we goosed it with some oak chips that we'd been soaking in some maple liqueur and that's gonna bring some toasty oaky goodness along with the maple sweetness and it's gonna be tasty as hell (and also on tap Thursday) so come getcha some!
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And speaking of Thursday, that's the day that Light of Day Records starts their residency in our taproom! You can think of it like a "permanent popup" - they've got a shelf o' records in our main taproom (which has displaced one of the pinball machines, at least for now) and you'll be able to peruse at your leisure and pick up some records whenever the taproom is open!
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And to "sweeten the deal" on this, the day that LOD is opening up shop in our taproom, they're gonna be hangin' in the taproom and/or collabbin' on this month's Audio Triviality (which is on Thursday, natch) and the theme is "Music of the 1960s" which is... suspiciously straightforward for this trivia night, so we'll see what happens!

Oh! And! Also! We apparently wanted to just completely load up our calendar for 
Thursday so we're also havin' Birria Gordita Street Tacos in the house with their tasty-ass tacos (and hopefully more of that birria ramen, that stuff is so good), so really there's no reason not to come out on Thursday!
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And speaking of food, we've got new-to-us Tasty BBQ comin' by on Friday with some, uh, Tasty BBQ and then Sekali is swingin' by with some Malaysian street food on Saturday and of course we've got our regularly-scheduled sushi class on Sunday and it's gonna be a weekend full of tasty times!

And then looking into the slightly farther future, next Tuesday we have InebriArt comin' by for a beer mug painting class, and then our recurring free-to-join Fiddle Jam Session is next Wednesday (in short: grab an instrument and come on by!), followed by Simpsons Trivia next Thursday (the theme is "Season of Love" which is probably more accurately described as "season of heartbreak" given how that show handles romance subplots) and anyway we've got a buncha cool stuff happening so you should come hang out!
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And speaking of cool stuff, as you may have heard recently (and/or seen from the partial wall that's been up in our lobby for the past week), we're working on expanding the taproom! We usually try to keep things like this "close to the vest" because (among other things) the timelines we're working with are... uncertain, and usually frustratingly long. For instance: when we first met with our landlords about this, they told us that they'd have their buildout completed and have a lease drafted within 2-3 months. That conversation was in June 2021, and we still don't have a lease on the space (there's been a fair bit done on the buildout, but it's fairly telling that we've had the studs up for that wall in the lobby for over a week and no sign of activity since they went up). Anyway, we'll try and lay out the full skinny here in handy-dandy (read: easy to write) Q&A format.
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So what's the deal with this expansion, anyway? 
This all started because our landlords said they were going to turn the now-former Crossfit space in the building into a "function room" for The Village, which meant we'd be losing access to the lobby bathrooms, so they asked if we wanted to take over the empty unit next to ours (which would have bathrooms installed in it). Unsurprisingly, we were very keen on the idea of not making people cross our weird creepy lobby, plus we'd already begun ramping up music-related events and stuff in the taproom, so we figured we'd take on some extra space so we could fit in a small stage at some point. 

What's the taproom going to look like when buildout is done?
The main/original taproom will be staying the same, but we'll be knocking down pretty much the rest of the walls (including the walls between our current space and new space, plus at least most of the wall between our current side rooms). In the end, that should create a space that's roughly twice the size of our original/main taproom. 

Any other big plans for the expansion?
Other than bathrooms and eventually a stage? We've got some things on our wishlist (and yes, air conditioning is at the top of that list), but those are limited by boring practicalities like "will we be able to afford it" or "can we put an AC unit on the roof without the roof collapsing" so we can't make any promises yet. 

What's your timeline?
If you ask Liz or Jared this in person, you're likely to be met with a heavy sigh, followed by an answer that can best be summed up as "we don't know." We'd love to know the timeline, but there are a lot of interdependent moving pieces, and most of them are out of our hands from a time standpoint. Here's a rough list of the steps that still need to be completed: our landlords need to finish the buildout they agreed to do (which, as we discussed, isn't exactly flying along), we need to sign a lease on the new space, then acquire funding for our own buildout (turns out you need money to do things. Who knew?), then complete said buildout (which is to some extent dependent on the timelines of the contractors we'll be hiring), then we can start applying for permits (which need to go through federal, state, and local levels because we're an alcohol manufacturer) and only once that's complete can we start really planning to use the space. And that's assuming things go smoothly (which they won't). So in short, we don't know, but we're trying our damnedest to make this happen.
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But what about the creepy walk to the bathroom?
If you're a fan of the weird/confusing trek out to our lobby bathrooms, then we have some exciting news for you: it's about to get weirder! For you see, while buildout is happening (which, as we mentioned, is on a "permanently unknown" timeline) we'll hit a point where the walk to the lobby bathrooms becomes even more weird/confusing/sketchy. More to the point, we need a fire exit door through what will be our new west wall (i.e. the one that's currently under construction), and that door will be a little ways down that weird hallway* through the middle of the building. All in all, this means you'll need to take a detour through the unfinished space and then back up the weird hallway full of junk (or step outside for a minute) in order to visit the loo. It's gonna be an adventure! ​
* Affectionately known as the "murder hallway" by our staff. ​
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In Which We Are Passionate About Fruit

1/25/2023

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Hello again! It's That Special Time once more, so let's get to the news about the brews! 

And to start things off, we have some decidedly non-beer news, which is to say that we will be closing early (at 6PM) on Sunday for a staff meeting (does everybody else use "meeting" as a euphemism for "drinking"? We sure do).

And moving right along with the Moderate Bummer News, there will be no cask this week. But never you fear, it'll be back in full force next week! 

And getting to all the fun stuff we've got in store for you this week, we've got beer! More to the point, we've started feeling a bit of a hankering for warmer climes, so we re-brewed Passion (Fruit) Project to give us a taste of sunnier days and it's on tap right now and you should have some! ​
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And then for our weekly Fun Times™ we've got some fun times, starting tonight! Tonight (which is to say Wednesday, assuming the blog goes up on time) we'll be hosting Music Bingo and I don't know what that means, but you can be sure we'll be there in the crowd (losing horribly, as always) and you should join us!

And then on Thursday we're teamin' up with our pals at Left Couch Comedy and turning our side room into the World's Quaintest Comedy Club and more to the point there's gonna be a buncha great comedy happening (and also this is gonna be a recurring event, so if you come out this week then you get to say that you were In On The Ground Floor or whatever it is people say to try and feel cool) and it's gonna be a great time and you should join us! 

And speaking of fun events, on Friday we've got another fun event! We're hosting this month's Band Hangouts and it just so happens that we've paired up the event with a beer release! We collaborated with our post-rock pals in Girih on a "live-looped tripel"* and it's called The Hourglass and it's available on tap and in bottles starting when the Hangouts start and also we've got Junius, Pray for Sound, and Lesotho comin' in and hangin' out and slingin' merch and also Food-Zilla is gonna be in the house servin' up tasty eats and it's gonna be a ton of fun! 

And speaking of tasty eats, on Saturday we've got our friends from Adriano's Tacos comin' by all afternoon and we ain't got much by way of events that day but that's cool anyway because Saturdays should really be the kind of day where you just kind of cool it for the day without trying to "do" a whole bunch of "stuff" and anyway we've got just the place for you to do all the next-to-nothing your heart desires! ​
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* "Live looping" in the context of music refers to recording snippets of music - while playing - and then playing those snippets back on a loop, which is how Girih manages to give the impression of "having like fourteen guitars at a time." In the context of beer, we brewed this tripel and then we introduced some of a different batch mid-fermentation. We may be straining the metaphor a bit, but just roll with it.
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In Which We Pretend the New Brewery Floor is the Big News for the Week (Spoiler: It's Something Else)

1/18/2023

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​Howdy friends! Welcome back! It just so happens that this week we're stoked to make a Very Important Announcement: we recoated the floors in our production area! Now, it's difficult to understate the impact that this will have on you specifically (which is to say none whatsoever), but it's something that Jared gets very excited about so we figured we'd humor him or whatever. 
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Let him have this; the floor will never look this good again
And speaking of announcements, we're also excited to tell you that we'll be partnering with Light of Day Records and they'll be settin' up shop in our taproom! Yes indeedy, we're clearin' out a bit of space in the Main Taproom and in a few weeks' time we/they will be slingin' vinyl - think of it like a "permanent popup" if that helps (only you'll be able to add records to your tab if you're at the bar). Anyway, we'll have more details forthcoming (the official announcement is actually scheduled for tomorrow), so keep them eyes peeled! 
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We're, like, super stoked for this
And while we're on about things we're excited about, we might as well move on to cask! This Thursday we're tappin' up a pin of taproom-favorite Jazz from Hell and we figured we'd "jazz it up" with a heapin' helpin' of comet! Comet's a bit of a left turn flavorwise (comet is mostly old-school citrus & pine, while Zappa is a bit more tropical) and anyway we're stoked to see what it's gonna taste like but also we know it's gonna be tasty! 
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Say it with me: CAAAAAASSSSSKKKKKKKK
And speaking of Thursday, on Thursday we've got trivia! And pies! More to the point, we're hosting "The Office" themed trivia (complete with some silly themed prizes, of course) and also we've got our friends from Seabiscuit in the house dishin' up some of their delicious savory pies!

And for treats and eats the rest of the weekend we've got a pair of relatively-new-to-us popups comin' through the taproom (they've each been here once, and they're both so good) with Sekali comin' by on Friday with a buncha Malaysian food (seriously, get the congee beef bowl or whatever they call it) and we've got Nagomi Bento comin' by on Saturday (I don't remember the name of what I ordered, but it was also excellent) and then of course on Sunday we've got our weekly sushi classes!
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DO THE THINGS
And movin' on to next week, we've got a bunch more fun stuff for you! Next Tuesday we've got Bonsai Bar comin' through (tickets here) and then next Wednesday we've got music bingo night and then next Thursday we're hosting the first installment of our monthly comedy night! We're teamin' up with Left Couch Comedy to bring in the best and/or brightest in the Boston comedy scene and they'll be tellin' some zingers in our side room, so grab some tickets and come check it out! 
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Beer: Made From Ingredients
Comedy: Composed of Jokes
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2022: Year in Numbers

1/10/2023

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​Howdy do kids and squids! It's time again for one of our* favorite year-end wrap ups: The Year In Numbers! But before we get into all that nitty gritty, we gotta give you the hip haps on what we've got goin' on here in the taproom, so let's jump right into it! 

But, actually, we have one more matter to discuss before we do that, and that's to thank everyone who came out for Horatio Day this past weekend! It was a hell of a time, full of cake and friendship and vinyl and oh so much barrel-aged beer, and we're completely jazzed as hell that so many of y'all were able to make it! It was a good enough Horatio Day, in fact, that we managed to kick every one of the special kegs that we tapped, which is rad as hell but also means we don't have leftovers to tap for the next week, but also it means we gotta step it up next year, so step we shall! ​
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And moving back to the here and/or now, we've got cask! Yes indeedy, on Thursday we're tappin' up a pin of Shut Up Kelly and since ol' Kelly don't need no help bein' tasty on cask we're servin' her straight up, just as god intended! (and also we've got a different cask of Kelly that's got a bunch of stuff dumped in it that we're tapping in two weeks or so). 

And speaking of Thursday, on Thursday we've also got Simpsons Trivia! This one's the last in the "one season per month" stretch that we've been doing (new themes coming for February!) and anyway this time the theme is Season Twelve and you should come hang out! 

And then on Friday we've got more cool stuff for you! We recently collaborated with local author Michael Cloherty (who wrote the book Abel Bodied, which is about a historical bank robbery/murder in Malden) and that beer comes out on Friday so we're gettin' the author himself in here to do a book reading/signing so if you like books or local history or beers (or Malaysian food, since we've got Sekali in the house for the first time), you should probably come on by! 

And then on Saturday we're tryin' something new to us and hosting a vision board workshop! Crystal (who is probably the same Crystal from our themed yoga classes, but don't quote me on that) will be starting the afternoon off with some guided meditation followed by creating some vision boards (and drinking beer, which is included in the ticket)! And then right as that's wrappin' up we've got Adriano's Tacos settin' up in the taproom, which is unrelated to vision boards (at least it's unrelated to all the non-taco content on said vision boards), but it will be tasty, so come on by!

And then on 
Sunday we resume our regularly-scheduled sushi classes with Chef Harold! Chef Harold is great and so is his sushi. 
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Back to our regularly scheduled programming, but with shiny new graphics!
Moving on to next week, next Tuesday we've got more Fiddle Times! Long story short, we're hosting an open-invite old-timey jam session in the side room and you're welcome to participate (last time somebody brought a harp. Like, an entire harp) or you can just come out and listen to some tunes and either way it's a fun time! 

And then next Thursday we've got The Office Trivia Night! It'll be a night of laughs and brain-busters and reminiscing about everyone's favorite office-themed situational comedy and there's gonna be prizes and everything, so come on out! Our pals at Seabiscuit will be popping up their delicious savory pies starting at 6pm, so dinner's covered. Get here early true believers! ​
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Mmmm.... pieeeee
* More to the point, it's Jared's favorite year-end wrapup because he thinks "numbers are fun." On a related note, he keeps assuring us (unprompted) that he "hasn't serial killed anyone, not even once."

And now that we're all done ramblin' on about all the cool stuff that's comin' up, it's time we look back on last year one more time with The Year in Numbers! For those of you that are new around here, we like to come up with a bunch of stats about all the stuff we did in the past year and then we try to Get Weird with it! Anyway, you'll get the gist pretty quickly (or you'll get bored and stop reading pretty quickly, which is why we put this at the end), so let's get to it! 

Production: By the Numbers

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​Number of batches brewed (total): 92
Number of double batches: 29
Percentage of batches brewed that were new beers: 51%
Amount of beer packaged, in gallons: 12,985
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​Number of flights that would fill: 83,104
Percentage of total volume actually served in flights: 4.7%
Amount of time, on average (assuming a 24/7 production schedule) it takes for Boston Beer Company to produce the same of beer we make in a year: 1 hour, 52 minutes*
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Number of different beers packaged: 77
Number of new beers released: 59
Number of collaboration beers: 20, not counting wedding beers 
Number of wedding beers: 5
Highest number of beers released (or rereleased) in one month: 11 (in August. Or 9 in July if you don’t count barreled/wild blends as “releases”)
Number of funky/wild beers released: 7
Number of "milkshake IPAs" brewed: 0, which is in fact the correct amount
Average OG of beer produced (in degrees SG): 1.053
Average ABV of beer produced: 6.1%
Highest ABV beer produced: No Light Ever (8.8%)
Lowest ABV beer produced: Bird Bath (4.2%)
Amount of vodka, in gallons, it would take to make the same amount of alcohol we produced this year: 1,980
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Beer brewed most often: Extra Naked
Number of Extra Naked batches brewed: 15
Number of people in production who had Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in their top five most-listened-to songs of the year: 1 (out of 4). 3 if you count the fact that it was in Jared's list thrice.
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Number of collaboration whiskeys released: 1, and it's damn fine
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* They don’t actually make beer any faster than we do, this is just for scale

Ingredients: By the Numbers

Amount of hibiscus, in pounds, that was sacrificed to Henrietta this year: 60
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Amount of hops used, in pounds: 640.6
Average hopping rate, in lbs/BBL: 1.67
Percentage of hops that were grown locally: 29%
Percentage of hops that were grown in Michigan, of all places: 28%
Number of hop varieties used: 38
Most used hop variety: Masscade (60#!)
Height, in feet, that you would need to grow all those hops on a single bine: 4,807.5
Amount of time, in weeks (assuming a 40-hour workweek), it would take you to pick all those hops by hand: 16
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Amount of grain used, in pounds: 30,876.9
Number of individual grains that would be (approximate): 389,000,315 
Percentage of grain that came from local suppliers: 21% (52% if you consider Delaware to be “local”)
Amount of oats used, as measured in bowls of oatmeal: 21,872
Amount of brown sugar used, also measured in bowls of oatmeal (but as a topping this time): 11,127
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Amount of honey used, in pounds: 340
Number of bees it would take to produce that much honey: 189,040 (visiting approximately 378,080,000,000 flowers in the process)
Yeast harvested, in cells: 581,038,000,000,000 (plus another 34,503,000,000,000 or so from lab-grown yeast)

The Blog: By the Numbers

Number of words written in the blog: 59,669 (nice)
Number of pages that would fill in a paperback: 199
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Least verbose month: December - 2479 words
Most verbose month: November - 6419 words (January doesn’t count)
Top 3 most commonly used words in the blog (in order, other than "beer"): time, gonna, fun
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Least commonly used words on the blog (four-way tie): air, cookies, draft, lime
Number of times we used the word "beer" in the blog this year: 761
Number of months "beer" wasn't the most-used word: 0 (technically in November we used the word “got” more than “beer,” but that’s no fun)
Number of times we managed to use the word "spooktacular" in the blog this year: 23
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Snacks: By the Numbers

Number of hot dogs served: 2,721
Number of cows it would take to produce that much beef: 0.77 (as in, we went through 77% of the beef you would get from a cow, in hot dog form)
Number of hot dog themed trophies we were awarded: 1 (Best Brewery Hot Dog, Costco Division)
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Total number of pieces of candy consumed per beer on draft when figuring out the beer and candy pairing menu: 9
Number of calories - in candy alone - consumed by each member of production when figuring out the beer and candy pairing menu, as measured in pints of ice cream: 3 (plus about a half tablespoon)
Amount of sugar consumed by each member of production when figuring out the beer and candy pairing menu, as measured in Pixy Stix: 102.4
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Taproom and Beer Garden: By the Numbers

Number of full pours served (12, 13, or 16oz): 29,033
Percentage of full pours that were Extra Naked: 14.9%
Number of flights served: 3,910
Percentage of those flights that were served over Halloween weekend: 4.8%
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Number of single to-go cans sold to people who definitely weren’t about to go drink in the parking lot: 63
Number of beers poured during our birthday weekend: 1,851
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Number of dog costumes at our dog costume party:  34
Percentage of those dogs that came with their own Instagram account: probably at least 50%
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Filed Under: "Holy Shit, How Did That Happen?

Number of Horatio tattoos acquired this year: 1
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Number of songs written about bone up: 1 (written and performed by The Guilloteenagers, of course)
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Number of times our dog appeared in Decibel Magazine: 1
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Number of packages from Matt friggin' Groening: 1
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Number of Shrek-themed disco parties Liz's cousin threw in the beer garden: 1
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Number of people who used custom-made Bone Up can labels to propose: 1
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Beers Released in 2022

Parentheses indicates the rerelease of a seasonal/rotating/flagship beer.

January: Pizza Time!, Critters XVI, Critters XV
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February: Comfy Pants, (Extra Naked), (Mild Child), TLA IPA
March: (Boneheads), (Shut Up Kelly), Le Triumph, Weird Moon, Passion (Fruit) Project, The Great Miscellaneous, Barrel-Aged No Light Ever
April: Hop Wizard, Never Nude, (Wasted Life), (Out of Bounds), (On-On), Scatterbräu, (Henrietta), (Joybringer), Man Overboard
May: Spacin' Out, Electric Juicer, Dr. Dankenstein 2, Strut, Fixation on Red Ale, Embrace the Chaos, Critters XVII
June: Blood Built, The Airness, Where Serpents Dwell, (Blue Manic), Dead Dry Eyes, Death Lullaby
July: Stick the Landing, Hop Chariot, Float Along, Where's Chris?, Don't Go, Six Hundo, Nameless Wave, (Seven X's), (Key Lime White)
August: Pumpkin Humor, Bird Bath, I am the Island, Sip Time, Ad Nauseam, Critters XVIII, Welcome to the Bad Future, Baby Monster, Rumble Royale, Mirage Daze, Dark Humor
September: Mag-nificent Chemistry, Hench 4 Life, Pobody's Nerfect, CPHaze, Porcupine Pale
October: (Ginger Spectacular), Exiled from the Abyss, (El Pulpo), Trial Run, Working Title, (Barrel-Aged El Pulpo)
November:  Embrace of Death, (Honey 'n Hops), Hellmouth, Firekeeper Wit, Deathly Trails, Empress in Decline
December: (Biere de Krampus), Ghost Dragon 2, Jazz from Hell
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2022: A Year in Review

12/28/2022

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​Welcome back friends! We're back with a buncha fun stuff for y'all to do (mostly HORATIO DAY which is FINALLY HERE) and also we're gonna spend some time reminiscin' on the past year or so (at... some length) so let's cut right to the brass chickens and get down to the nitty and/or gritty!

But first, a programming note: we will be closed to the public starting at 5PM on Friday (January 6th).
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Note to Mug Club members: if you're thinking "they can't be closed, that's when the Mug Club party is!" then let me assure you that you are *so* close to figuring it out
And then. It's time for that time you've all been waiting for: Horatio Day!* We're draggin' out a buncha kegs of vintage and/or rare barrel-aged beer - including the first-and-only-time-on-draft appearance of Rumble Royale (our collab with Silvaticus) an the first-time-ever appearance of 600 (a barleywine we brewed to commemorate our 600th batch some months back) - and we're tappin' them on our portable draft system and also we've got a bottle fridge that's just burstin' at the seams and it's gonna be a fun time! ​
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Come thirsty, my friends
The festivities kick off on Saturday and we've got Matilda's Pastelitos in the house for all your noshing needs and also there's gonna be cake at some point and, AND we've got some super sweet (and super limited) special glassware and then on Sunday we're keepin' on keepin' on only there's also a beer and vinyl pairing hosted by our friends from Light of Day Records (tickets here) and they'll also be doin' a vinyl popup and on the food side we'll have Nagomi Bento in the house servin' up some tasty eats!
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On Thursday we're hosting our monthly music trivia and the theme this time is Bad Music! So if you've got any "guilty pleasure" bands that you're just, like, way too knowledgeable about, then come on out and strut your stuff! ​
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You know who you are.
And speaking of Thursdays, starting on Thursday the 26th we're doin' a monthly comedy night! Our friends at Left Couch Comedy are steppin' up an bringin' in a rotating selection of comedians and the first one is this month, so grab yourself a ticket!
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Beer made from ingredients, comedy composed of jokes
Annd moving a little (but not much) closer to now, we figured we'd give you some "inside info" on an event we've got comin' up in a couple weeks (specifically on Friday January 13th) and that's a combination beer release/book reading for our collab beer with local novelist Michael Cloherty! Michael's book is about a historic bank-robbery-turned-murder up in Malden so we brewed up a hoppy amber ale called Chalk Outline and we're gonna have him in the house doin' a book reading (and he'll probably stick around to sign some books if that's your jam) and this is the first time we've ever done a collab with a book*** and it's gonna be a good time and you should come out! 

* Or rather, you've more likely been waiting for the time when you don't have to hear us go on about Horatio Day every week, but that's really the same thing. 
** By "dust" I mean "our throbbing headaches" 
*** Though it's definitely not the first time we've collaborated with an inanimate object

2022: A Year in Review

But anyway, that's enough talk about the present and/or future, let's get to navel-gazing about the past! 
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2022 has certainly been an... interesting year for most of us - full of the ups and downs, strikes and gutters that you'd expect, but also it (eventually) started to feel like that "return to normal" that we spent the better part of two years yearning for, only once we returned to normal, we learned that this normal still isn't normal, you know? Anyway, we took a deep dive through the ol' blogroll and got to reminiscing about what honestly started off as kind of a dark time in...

January when we tried to walk the line between "life goes on" and "we must be safe" by holding Horatio Day but requiring vax cards for entry. ​
We'd heard some chatter about that whole "omicron" thing that people were talking about, so we figured that masks and vaccines might help mitigate that risk, but (surprise!) we all got covid (or rather, everyone except for Jared got covid, he got it like two weeks later somehow). It was definitely an unpleasant time, but we managed to scrape together enough people to run things while we waited on everybody to test negative and also we didn't really need that many people because pretty much everybody else in the world got covid at that time too (for instance, most of our popups ended up cancelling that month for exactly that reason).
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But! Amongst all the "worrying about covid" and "getting covid" and "getting yelled at by morons when we made the vax card policy a more permanent thing" we did manage to release, like, five different barrel-aged beers and that was pretty rad! Anyway the year was off to a pretty interesting start, but that meant that things just had to get better in...

February when things at least didn't get worse, anyway, even though we kinda sorta had to make a last-minute name/label change for a beer because Jared apparently can't read (finally! The secret behind changing Lazy Pants to Comfy Pants has been revealed: Jared is a bonehead).
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Then, our brewer Justin abruptly announced that he was moving to Florida (which was a bummer for us but he seems happy down there so we'll call it an overall win). ​
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But! This was also the month that we got our first-ever invite to Decibel Fest and we got to bring back our Beer and Girl Scout Cookie Pairings and we got to do a beer and burger pairing at a draft account and also this was the month that we started adding more trivia nights to the calendar (we did so much trivia this year you guys)!
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And just in case we thought everything was gonna be sunshine and roses, we closed out the month by tapping a cask devoted to the recently-closed Modern Homebrew Emporium (which we had frequented as homebrewers, and also as a brewery whenever Jared forgot to order something that we needed). All in all it was a topsy-turvy month, but things seemed to be on the right course, which certainly set the stage for...

March when we started the month off with a bang by celebrating Kafka Day, which is also pretty much an excuse to tap a bunch of cool barrel-aged beers, for reasons that are entirely unrelated to Horatio Day (the true origin story is, true to the name, convoluted and potentially kind of boring, but it's mostly a "things are terrible, let's drink" kind of vibe) and then that was followed pretty quickly by Mass Beer Week which almost definitely was a thing or perhaps series of things that happened. ​
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Moving on, we also met with the band planned out our collab beer for Decibel Fest (we worked with The Red Chord and made a red ale called Fixation on Red Ale that's gonna be a recurring part of our seasonal catalogue) and we ran out of Extra Naked in the taproom for possibly the first time ever due to a production issue that doesn't bear further elaboration* at the moment.
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We rebounded from that pretty quickly and then released all the beers all at once including the rerelease Boneheads, which we brewed in collaboration with our screenprinter (Heads Up Screenprinting, motto: "we print shirts and stuff"), and it's notable that I say "rerelease" because the original brew was scheduled to be released at a party to celebrate their first year in business... in late March 2020. ​
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But! We managed to throw a hoedown this year and speaking of hoedowns we also hosted our first ever Band Hangouts and we released a different beer for that, namely barrel-aged No Light Ever on account of how Glacier was one of the bands at said hangouts (in addition to Lesser Glow and Sea, it was a pretty heavy day) and we also announced a different band collab beer, but that's gonna have to wait until we release it in...
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*Whenever we say stuff like that, it usually means that somebody screwed something up, but we don't want to throw them under the bus (in other words, it's one of the rare cases when it wasn't Jared's fault)

April when we brought our old pal Wasted Life back for a visit and also we got some sweet new ceramic coasters and we released Scatterbräu, our collab with brutal death metal legends Scattered Remnants (who are honestly just the nicest people)!
We got maybe a little too excited about opening up the beer garden and we started our biweekly Barks & Brews charity events and also we brought ol' Henrietta out of hibernation and hosted our first ever comedy show and a coffee marketplace popup and also we had hell of trivia nights once again and we ended the month with more band hangouts which were accompanied by another barrel-aged beer release (namely Man Overboard, our collab with North Star the Wanderer) and this one was a first for us because we had the band come in and help out with our blending session (which was a lot of fun and surprisingly productive, especially given how... animated some of the band members got about halfway through said blending session)!
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Also we were hosting sushi classes twice per week all month and also before that but I forgot to mention that until just now and anyway the point is that things felt pretty jam-packed but it turns out we were only gearing up and that gearing kept going up in...
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May when we continued our apparent trend of starting alternating months with a big event and this one was a three-day "nerd-themed" series of events called Dungeons & Drinks! ​
We also had our first Surf Guitar Happy Hour of the season (featuring the delightful Matt Heaton) and accompanied it with some ice cream and also this was the month that Horatio's Reserve got released! ​
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While it wasn't something that we released/sold, it was the end product of a collab we did with GrandTen Distilling four years ago where we basically did a recipe swap with them and they made a whiskey out of one of our beer recipes (the beer we made from their whiskey recipe went on to start our line of Critters beers, so it's one we remember quite fondly) and there wasn't much of it to go around (partly because we bought like 10% of the batch for ourselves) but it was completely tasty!
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And speaking of doing stuff with friends from Outside The Brewery we also did our first beer dinner in years over at State Park! ​
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On top of all that, we shipped our first ever pallet of beer to an out-of-state wholesaler (it was for Decibel Fest, but the wholesaler wanted a whole pallet, so we just went with it) and also we kept on having tons of trivia nights and band hangouts and more live music started peppering the schedule and there was also a bunch of other cool stuff that we did and also we decided to "buck the trend" that we'd set for ourselves in years past which means that this year we actually planned ahead for our anniversary beers which was probably a good thing because we ended up making seventeen damn beers for that party, but we only started brewing those in May, they wouldn't get released until...

June when we honestly had the most bonkers month. ​
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In addition to all the stuff that's pretty much become commonplace by this point (lots of trivia nights, Surf Guitar Happy Hour, Band Hangouts...) we hosted a spring art bazaar and yoga (frequently themed yoga) started popping up in the calendar!
We also schlepped out to Philly for that fest I've mentioned several times already (it's a good fest) and we did another beer dinner (this time with Cunard, who made the best damn potato we've ever had. We still think about it) and also we hosted a dang air guitar competition! ​
See, we've got some friends that are very into competitive air guitar (as one does) and somehow yada yada yada we hosted the New England regional championships in our parking lot and it was completely a ton of fun and we hope we get to host it again. ​
Oh, and at some point in June Matt Heaton decided that his Surf Guitar Happy Hour sessions would be better with a live drawing component so that also started being a thing and also we kept brewing band beers all month and oh crap we did so much dang stuff this month that I didn't even mention beer yet but that's gonna have to wait until...
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​July when the anniversary beers start coming out in full force, like Stick the Landing and Float Along and Don't Go and Nameless Wave and Seven X's and that's barely scratching the surface of the anniversary beers which means we had time for other fun things like having Key Lime make a comeback and also we brewed/kegged 600 (our 600th batch), then implied it would be on tap in a week or so (it was not on tap in a week or so. It's still not on tap. We're giving it time to mature before it hits center stage)​
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Plus we did a collab with the band Aversed (who ended up playing a wedding/show in the beer garden in the fall, as an indirect result of said collab) and my point is that it was a beery month but that's hardly all we did!
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We also hosted a hot sauce fest and a Paint Your Pet workshop and also threw a surf rock daytime show that was hella fun and also we had what I think was our first-ever ticketed live event in the beer garden (it was a comedy show) and we're really just pickin' up steam for...

August when we unveiled the sweet anniversary swag and also released three anniversary beers in one week and over the course of the month (mostly the first half of the month honestly) we released all the barrel blends for the anniversary including Mirage Daze and Baby Monster and WttBF and Dark Humor and Rumble and Critters XVIII and that really explains why we were a little light on new Shitty Wednesday and/or Horatio Day beers this year (because we released them all in August and we only have so much space in the cold room). ​
And amidst all that brewing and blending and beer releasing, we managed to squeak in just one more beer for the anniversary (Ad Nauseam, brewed for Stryga, who signed on at the last minute because another band had to bow out) and also we hosted a dog pool party at one point, but the main event for the month, that we spend all damn summer preparing for and getting excited about, was The Anniversary! ​
And that was was (of course) hella fun - we had four days of live music and good food and there was live screenprinting and hot sauce and Light of Day did a record store popup (which I think was their first event with us)  - and honestly we're continually surprised at just how much stuff we're able to cram into one weekend (assuming a broad definition of the word "weekend") but more than anything it's just damn heartwarming to see all the friends we've made over the years and just enjoy some tasty beer and food and listen to some good tunes and hang out for a couple days and anyway we say this all the time but it's pretty much our favorite time of year and we're just mega stoked that y'all come out for it and anyway now that it's over we gotta move forward to...

September when we started off the month releasing Sip Time, the first of *five* wedding beers we made over the course of the month (also the groom of that couple was the main guy running sound at the anniversary party, which was one friggin' week before his wedding) and also at some point in the past we had sent a cask overseas to the GBBF but nobody told us when it got tapped so we forgot to make a big deal about it. ​
Anyway September was also the month that we brought sushi classes back (our indoor space gets... warm in the summer, and it's probably not a great idea to prepare sushi outside) and we hosted a pretty rad harvest market with a buncha cool local vendors and then we thought it would be cool to do a beer and CD deal in conjunction with the band Worshipper and we had our first-ever terrarium workshop (which I maintain is a lot more fun than it sounds) and then capped off the month with a show that we called Octoberfuzz (which should definitely have been spelled Oktoberfuzz, but we'll fix that next time) and we threw said show in conjunction with the rad folks from Somergloom (who organize the fest of the same name) and hopefully we'll be doin' more stuff with them in the future because that was a great show and speaking of shows, we've got a surprising amount more live music in...
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October when we started off the month with Dylan and Caroline's wedding afterparty which, in addition to featuring two of the five wedding beers we'd brewed the previous month (Hench 4 Life and Pobody's Nerfect, to be precise), also had a live performance from Aversed (who I mentioned a few paragraphs ago, and who met the happy couple at Band Hangouts at the brewery)!
We also hosted an album release party for The Electric Heaters and a little later there was a completely normal Shrek Disco in the beer garden then a show with our pals from DnA's Evolution and new-to-the-brewery The Endorphins (also held in the beer garden), but the music-related fun times didn't slow down at all...
... because there was also the release of our collab with the band Pathogenic and also an outdoor market that we called the Ghastly Gala (which had even more dang live music) and somehow we still managed to fit in our annual Halloween Dog Costume Contest plus our beer and candy pairing that we do pretty much every year and dang but that's a hell of a lot of stuff for one month, let's see if things slow down in...

November when the month started (as in, literally started, at midnight on the 1st) with signups for Mug Club! And we'd planned to have these be preorders for a mug club starting in December, but the mugs sold out in like nine hours so we figured we'd just start things a little early because y'all were clearly stoked about it! ​
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And then the fun times just kept rollin' with a vinyl release party for Rah Zen's "Upon the Apex," which we threw in conjunction with our pals from Light of Day Records which was followed by our Music Marketplace featuring SJC Drums and Source Audio and (you guessed it!) Light of Day Records and also El Colombiano Coffee why not and that was also hella fun! And on the beer front we brought back our old friends Honey 'n Hops and also Biere de Krampus (and, briefly, its barrel-aged cousin Blood of Krampus)!
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And speaking of new beers we also released El Pulpo on the appropriately-named Pulpo Day, which meant we got to go completely hog-wild on different vintages/variants of El Pulpo for three days straight (which was both a good thing and a bad thing, as you might imagine) and then while we're talkin' traditions we also put out our much-anticipated (by Jared) annual Thanksgiving Beer Pairings! ​
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And since the month was sorely lacking in music stuff compared to other months, we hosted a (hopefully soon-to-be recurring) night of Fiddle Times! I'd explain what that is, but it's honestly funnier if I don't and anyway we need to keep moving on to...

December when we kicked off the month by going to Decibel Fest! Again! Sure it was a different one this time (Denver instead of Philly) but it was still fun times full of friendship and beer and we got teamed up with Of Feather and Bone (mostly because the beer liaison for the fest wanted us to name the beer "Of Feather and Bone Up," which we didn't do) and they're hella rad people (to say nothing of their music, which rips) and we got to brew a nice 'n light pineapple/lime grisette to bring to a death metal fest and anyway it was fun as hell! ​
And speaking of band collabs, we did a collab with Indian Handcrafts (a pale ale called Empress in Decline, named after their latest album) and at some point Liz and Jared got to go to Canada for that beer's release party (it wasn't being sold in Canada, they just wanted to go)!
And! We also collabed with the folk metal band Wilderun on a Belgian golden strong that was brewed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their first album and for that release party they came here and played an acoustic set of the songs from the first album! We honestly didn't entirely know what to expect because we've never really hosted an entire band inside before, but it turns out that the type of folk music they were playing is very well suited to a small bar with lots of small rooms (and the fact that it was snowing outside definitely added to the vibe) and anyway it was lots of fun! ​
But other than all that stuff, December was mostly just preparing for Horatio Day, which leads us to...

the future. But we can't really recap that, so we'll take a second to look back at the year from a birds' eye view before we go about our merry way. It was definitely an interesting year - we started out with Covid Winter Part Two and then managed to settle in to something that almost felt normal for the first time in years. And though there were certainly a fair number of tribulations to be had all around this year, we managed to keep puttin' one foot in front of the other and in that process we managed to do a fair amount of growing - most years have felt like the theme of the year (for us, anyway) has been "More," but this is when we really took it to heart - we really doubled down on in-person events like marketplaces and workshops and live music and trivia (so much trivia​) and there were a couple duds and a lot of successes, but we've really started figuring out what people do and don't want to do, which means we get to do even more next year! Plus we got to do way more band collabs this year than we ever have in the past, and also this was (finally) The Year Of Extra Naked! We brewed more of that beer than we have in any of the years past (and we ran out of it a few times as a consequence), and we like to think that people are finally coming around to the fact that it's the best beer we make (a fact we've known for years). ​
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And, of course, as we say every year, you all are the reason we're able to keep doing all this cool stuff we're doing. Whether you're a die-hard Mug Club member or you just swing by every now and then to play some pinball or anywhere in between, we are completely grateful that you like coming to our weird little brewery. It's been a hell of a ride these last six or so years, and we've made a lot of friends with a ton of cool people we wouldn't have otherwise been able to meet, and we're super stoked about everything that's allowed us to do - shows and marketplaces and band collabs and even relatively small stuff like our dog-themed events couldn't happen without all the people we've met along the way and we can't wait to keep doin' more cool stuff with you and for you!
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In Which We Get Cheesy

12/28/2022

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Howdy folks! We're right smack dab in the middle of that "liminal space" between "the holiday that too many people have made movies about" and "that holiday that very few people have made movies about, but that's okay because it sucks anyway" and that means we're in Prime Territory for hangin' out and drinkin' some beers!
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First up and most saliently we will be closing early (at 6PM) on Saturday December 31st and we will be closed on Sunday January 1st mostly on account of how we want to give staff some time off and also because both of those days are sparse at best in the ol' taproom (New Year's Day seems like it would be bumpin', but it's really a brunch day and that means cocktails. Plus there's a big sports happening on the TV and that doesn't exactly do us any favors either). But! Since the 2nd is New Year's Day Observed for lots of you that have "real jobs," we will be open from 12-8 on Monday January 2nd for all your daydrinking needs. 

And on a related note, we will not be tapping a cask this week because of all that stuff I just mentioned.
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But! It's not all "weird hours and lack of casks" around here - we still managed to schedule some fun stuff for y'all this week! More to the point, on Friday we've got Kimi from Life. Love. Cheese. in the house hosting a beer and cheese class that's focused on local cheeses (and our beers, obviously) and ticket sales end tonight so if you wanna come learn about cheese and also eat a bunch of cheese, you best jump on it!
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And looking into the future, it's worth mentioning once again that Horatio Day is coming up soon! On Saturday 1/7 and Sunday 1/8 we'll be draggin' a buncha cool strong and/or barrel-aged beer outta the ol' barrel hold and tappin' it up (draft list sneak peek below!) and we're gonna have some tasty food vendors comin' through (Matilda's Pastelitos on Saturday and Nagomi Bento on Sunday) and there's four tickets left for our Private Guided Tasting on Saturday if you wanna sign up for the Full Horatio Day Experience (which is a combination of "bottles from the vault that probably don't exist anywhere else in the world" and "Jared being bad at public speaking until he has a few drinks and then he's *very* bad at public speaking") and then we've got Light of Day records comin' by on Sunday and doin' a popup and also a beer and vinyl pairing (which is also a ticketed event, if you're interested) and also there's gonna be a cake and special glassware and general merriment all around and it's gonna be hella fun and you should come hang out with us!  P.S. We'll be closed to the public at 5pm on Friday 1/6 for our inaugural mug club party!
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In Which We Hold Out for Free Ham

12/20/2022

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Hello again! We're back with some quick lil' dribs and drabs on account of how there's some kind of "wintertime celebration" happening later this week and there ain't much* all that's happening other than that (and it's not really the kind of celebrating you do at a bar, which is really everyone's loss). 

And on that note full of holiday cheer or whatever, we should let y'all know that we will be closing early at 6pm on Saturday December 24th and we will be closed on Sunday December 25th and also we're skippin' cask this week. Merry Christmas! ​
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But wait! There's a glimmering light of hope on the horizon, just like that thing from that famous** Christmas movie! Only in this case that light on the horizon is called Jazz from Hell and it's our newest beer! See, we had a whole bunch of Zappa (the hop) on our hands and we wanted to "test the waters" a bit so we brewed up a tasty lil' single hop beer and as it just so happens we're releasing it on the birthday*** of the man himself (Frank Zappa)! Anyway we're stoked to get to know this funky lil' hop (it's related to Medusa, the first Neomexicanus hop to hit the market, which is no longer being grown) and unless something goes awry it's on tap Today and you should have some! 
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Anyway with all this talk of holidays and beer and whathaveyou we'd be remiss if we didn't take the opportunity to shout about Horatio Day! It's a holiday we made up to celebrate making it through all the Name Brand Holidays and also it celebrates the birthday of our logo dude (who, as you might know, is named Horatio) and we're tappin' up a buncha cool barrel-aged beer and it runs all day on January 7th AND 8th (making the name "Horatio Day" a bit of a misnomer, but in a fun way) and there's a private tasting with Liz and Jared on Saturday morning (tickets here) if you wanna try some even cooler and rarer stuff while you also get to hear Jared forget what he's talking about while he's mid-sentence**** and then on Sunday we've got Light Of Day Records doin' a beer and vinyl pairing shindig (tickets here) and anyway it's gonna be hella fun and you should come! 
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* As we say every year, whether you're on the ol' Christmas Train or not, we at least hope you're able to use this season to score some free ham (or Ham Equivalent if you're not a ham person either). 
** All the different Xmas movies get all jumbled up in my head, so we'll assume it's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. 
*** It's also Liz's birthday, if you were wondering. And Samuel L. Jackson's! And somebody named "Ha Ha Davis" who got listed before Frank Zappa on that website that I used to look up famous peoples' birthdays, which is... something. 
**** This is actually unrelated to how much alcohol he's had. It just kind of... happens? I dunno. 
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In Which Satan Claws Comes to Town

12/15/2022

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Howdy do kids and squids! We're back in action with a buncha beer and good times and we're just gonna get right on in to it because there's a whole lotta "holiday spirit" all up ins and we just gon' roll with it! 

And first on up on that fun time train is cask! This week (specifically on Thursday) we've got the best-ever beer to drink on cask and that's Extra Naked! More to the point, we took a cask of Extra Naked and dry hopped the crap out of it with a buncha the delicious-but-unfortunately-named Bitter Gold and it's gonna be tasty as hell and you should drink some! 

And speaking of Thursday, on Thursday we've got this month's (belated) edition of Audio Triviality! We've got Matt in the house with a buncha Holiday-related music and he's definitely not gonna play "DMX Sings Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" fifteen times* but honestly it's gonna be a good time and you should come hang out!
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And speaking of good and/or tasty times, on Saturday we've got our good friends from Matilda's Pastelitos back in the house servin' up some seriously delicious fried foods** and also they're hella nice people and anyway you should come out and have some snacks! 
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And while we're on about tasty treats and fun times, we might as well put in another plug for Horatio Day, which we're hostin' on January 7th and 8th! We're tappin' up a whole mess of rare and/or barrel-aged beers and Liz and Jared are doin' a private tasting on Saturday afternoon (tickets here) if you wanna get into the "nitty gritty" and we're gonna have Light of Day Records in the house on Sunday (tickets here)with some rad vinyl pairings and it's gonna be a party and you should come hang out!
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* We cannot guarantee he won't play it fourteen times though. That sounds like the kind of thing he'd do out of spite. 
** If they have the fried cheese curds, GET THEM. They are somehow one of the best foods known to man, and I don't think they're usually on the regular menu, which is really the world's loss. ​
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In Which the Ghost Dragon is Resurrected

12/7/2022

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Hello again! We're back in action with a jam-packed schedule fulla beer and tasty treats and fun times and beer galore, so read on and read up and check out all the cool stuff we've got in store for you!
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Hohohohohohoho
But before we get into all the good beer and good times, we gotta give a shoutout to all the good beer and good times we had this past weekend at Decibel Fest in Denver! We completely had a blast and saw a bunch of awesome music (including Of Feather and Bone, who you might know from our beer Embrace of Death, and who completely crush it live) and we got to make a buncha new friends and/or see some preexisting friends because we apparently do this kind of thing enough that we know people now and anyway we can't thank Decibel Magazine enough for inviting us and we'll sure as hell be at the next one (which is in Philly in April, by the way) and we hope some of y'all will join us! ​
Favorite sticker acquired: "Shows Before Hoes"
Anyway first up on the up-and-coming is our trusty weekly(ish) cask! But wait! This is no ordinary cask - it's a cask of a brand-spankin' new beer named Empress in Decline and we dry hopped the bejesus out of it with a blast-from-the-past hop called Multihead (you may remember it from the creatively-named single-hop IPA we made a little ways back, which was also called Multihead) and if memory serves it's a neomexicanus hop variety that's fulla fruitiness and also a buncha that old-school dankness and anyway the cask is gettin' tapped on Thursday and we don't expect it to be around long, so come get while there's gettin' to be got!
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Don't sleep on this one!
And while we're on about cool new beers that we've got for you, we might as well talk about - you guessed it - Ghost Dragon! This beer is, depending on how you want to think about it, not technically "new" on account of how we brewed it once like four years ago, but also we've tweaked and modified and changed enough things that it's pretty much just the same in name only.* Anyway, this IPA features a heapin' helpin' of Grüngeist (which is German for "green ghost," or at least that's what our hop salesperson told us) and also a whole heckin' mess of Styrian Dragon and it's on draft and in cans right now and also it's completely tasty as heck and you should drink some!
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Brewed with real ghosts and dragons!
And speaking of beers that are available right now, we've also got Empress In Decline! This here's a pale ale that we brewed in collaboration with the band Indian Handcrafts and we're pretty much over the moon about that because they're our favorite band and also it's just a really tasty beer? Anyway it's available in cans right now (and on cask on Thursday, as we discussed) and it's delicious as hell and you should try it!
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The best band you've never heard of
And while we're on about band collabs, we've got another band collab comin' out this week! Yes indeedy, our new friends in Wilderun are celebrating the tenth dang year of the release of their first album (Olden Tales and Deathly Trails) and they wanted to do a whole to do about it! More to the point, we brewed up a tasty-ass Belgian Golden Strong for the occasion (named, of course, Deathly Trails Golden Ale) and they're comin' by for some Band Hangouts on Sunday (along with Bellower and Perennial Quest) and AND they (Wilderun) are gonna be playing a stripped-down acoustic set of some songs from the album because they're rad like that and anyway it's gonna be a fun day and you should come hang out with us!
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Folk metal played folk style, crammed into the taproom on a chilly afternoon. What's not to love
And gettin' back to the things that are a bit sooner on the ol' agenda, this Thursday we've got more Simpsons Trivia! The theme for the month is Season Eleven and we do suggest that you study up real good because we've got an extra special prize that is actually a real thing and not some weird knockoff nonsense, so come on out and bring your A-game!

And then on Saturday we've got an action-packed day that starts off with Emo Yoga! Crystal's gonna be settin' up in the taproom and doin' some all-levels yoga to the sounds of bands like Brand New, Fall Out Boy and Paramore! 

And then on Saturday afternoon we're hosting a winter art market! We'll have arts and/or crafts from Keep On Puppin’, Ivonne Blanco, and Chelsea Bloxsom plus some beer CANdles from Beers Over Boston and we've got Biscuitdrop in the house with tasty eats and it's gonna be a good time and you should come out! 

And then lookin' a little further into the future, next Tuesday we've got a Wire Tree Art Class that looks pretty much fun as hell and then sushi classes resume next Wednesday (we're not having one this Sunday on account of the band hangs/beer release/show we're having with our cool music friends) and then next Thursday Audio Triviality is back with Satan Claws comin' to town! ​
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Last events before we all hunker down for the holidaze. Come hang!
And if you're even more of a forward-looking individual, it behooves us to mention Horatio Day! In honor of our logo/mascot's birthday (which is officially January 7th) we tap up a whole buncha cool and/or rare barrel-aged beers that we've got kickin' around in the old  Barrel Hold** and it's a fun weekend (despite the name, it is not a one-day event) full of fun times and barrelly goodness and we'll be releasing a bunch more details soon, but in the meantime get your calendars marked because it's gonna be a blast!
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P.S. Tickets are live for our private tasting (we've got some vintage goodies not on the regular HD2023 menu) and our first ever beer and vinyl pairing! Spots are limited, as always:
Private Tasting w/Liz and Jared (Sat. 1/7): Tickets
Beer and Vinyl Pairing w/Light of Day Records (Sun. 1/8): Tickets

* If you want to get all pedantic about it, we are using the same two hops (and only those two hops) in this one, just like the other one. But we're using them in different amounts, and in different ways, which really doesn't count. 
** The back corner of the cold room. We pile other kegs in front of the Horatio Day stuff so we don't drink it all on impulse. ​
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In Which the Festive Times Begin!

11/29/2022

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Howdy kids! We've got a week fulla fun stuff lined up for all y'all, so read on while we get to gettin' on with all the things that are good! 

And first up on that ol' list is the triumphant return of CASK! Yes indeedy, this Thursday we're tappin' up a cask of Extra Naked (the arguably-best beer to serve on cask) and we went and crammed it full of relatively-new-to-us fruity-as-hell Zappa and it's gonna be mega tasty and you should try some! ​
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Anyway, moving on into fun stuff to do whilst you drink these this tasty cask, on Thursday we've got a new-to-us event and that's a wreath making workshop! It's the first day of December, so we might as well just roll with the seasonally-appropriate punches and make some goddamned wreaths! Seriously though, I bet there's some cool-ass wreath designs you could come up with and then that way you wouldn't have to buy some horrible wreath from Target that the dog keeps trying to eat (which may or may not have happened in our household last year).
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And then movin' into the weekend the name of the game is snackin'! On Friday, we are opening at 3pm instead of 12pm this week (because of reasons, and it's only for this week) and starting at 6pm, we've got Food-Zilla back in the house and we strongly suggest checking them out because they're definitely not serving your typical popup fare and it's pretty much spectacular. And then on Sunday we've got Chef Harold back in the house doin' what he does best, and that's teach y'all how to make sushi! 

And lookin' a little ways into next week, we've got a Paint Your Pet workshop on Tuesday which was hella fun the last time we did it (and this time it's way less likely to be 85 degrees in the room while you're painting) and then next Thursday we've got more Simpsons Trivia! This time around the theme is Season Eleven and also you're no longer in danger of winning The Worst Prize from our prize box because somebody won it last month and anyway you should come hang out!
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Also, congrats to our November coloring contest winners! Adequate work, everyone!
* Apparently Styria is a place? In Austria? I've been seeing this damn word for twenty years (Styrian Golding is a common hop variety, which I don't think is usually grown in Austria?) and I just learned what it meant today. 
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