In Which Flannel Season Begins

Howdy-do, friendaroos! It's about gettin' to be that time of year - the thermometer dipped below 65 one time and all of a sudden we're seein' the phrase "pumpkin spice" turn up in all sorts of weird places.

But more to the point, it's when we start sayin' goodbye to the birthday beers (we've got a scant handful of mix packs left, but we're hella low on a couple* of the beers) and we start sayin' hello to our flannels again! And this year it's a particularly interesting time, because the writing's on the wall for the end of Beer Garden Season (we got some heat lamps, but they're not, like, magic heat lamps that'll stop it from raining sideways or otherwise Being November outside when the time comes) so if you wanna cram in all the parking lot drinking** you can, come on out and hang out!

And speaking of chillier weather,*** we're delighted to rerelease our twice(ish)-per-year recurring beer: Joybringer! I daresay we missed havin' this beer around, so we whipped up a big ol' batch (much of which has gone into barrels for Secret**** Future Projects) and it's back in bottles right now and on draft on Thursday and we are just dang delighted to have this big little tripel back in our lives!

And speaking of (not so) old favorites, we had us a hankerin' for some hoppy ol' Wellington (there were also Reasons, but they're moot now) so we made us some Wellington and it's goin' into cans on Friday and you should come grab some!

Oh! Also! We took advantage of the post-birthday lull that we tend to see every year (it turns out that when you release seven new beers at once, you stop needing to release new beers for a week or two) and we've been busy bees with brett beers! We've been barreling and blending and just gettin' all kinds of funk all up in, and we don't have anything to show for it right this minute, but we figured we'd give y'all a heads up to keep an eye out for some new funky stuff! (And also we should probably point out that our supplies of the current funky stuff - Critters 9 and 10, to be precise - is starting to dwindle, so you may wanna get on it if either of those floats your boat).

* We might, somehow, run out of Organ Meats before we run out of anything else. Gotta say that's the opposite of what we were expecting. Maybe this will be the year for smoked beer! 
** And hot dogs. Let's not forget them hot dogs, folks!
*** No, Craig, we haven't made Pretend It's Summer again. Not yet, anyway. 
**** Calling them a "secret" sounds so much better than admitting that we don't plan ahead. ​