In Which the Drywall is Inspected

Hello! It's time. It's time we talk about tasty beer. It's time we talk about a bunch of weird fun stuff we've got planned for you. It's time we talk about snacks. It's time.

But first! We pretty much have to give you an expansion update since we've been doing that every week. Anyway, after promising that the construction would be done "in two weeks" two weeks ago, our landlords have "talked to a building inspector" which is definitely something that could be mistaken as a proxy for progress if you're really committed to being delusional. Anyway, thus concludes our expansion update. 

But moving in to things that are a bit more fun, we've got an extra special cask this week! See, every now and then we need a "stock" beer to use for our wild beers (Critters et. al.) and we usually go for something that's pretty neutral so we can let our wild yeast (which we refer to as Brett, because we're pals) do its thing and/or strut its funky stuff. Anyway, we thought it would be neat to grab a cask of our latest "brett stock" beer (partly but not entirely because we used an interesting and new-to-us grain in it) and also we decided to put in a nigh-irresponsible amount of a new(ish)-to-us hop product (LupoMax, specifically Cascade LupoMax, which is one o' them "cryo hops" all the kids are talkin' about) and anyway now we've got all this Caskade and it's even more one-of-a-kind than our cask beers usually are and anyway it's gettin' tapped on Thursday and you should drink some!

And speaking of tasty new beers, we've got a tasty new beer on tap! This one's a pale ale called Sticky Fingers and it's on tap right now and we named it after a cool new hop we got that's also called Sticky Fingers and it (the hop) is actually the hop hash* from all the pellets processed on the farm in Michigan we buy from (well, one of the farms in Michigan we buy from) and anyway the point is that it's a combination of a dozen or so hop varieties in undefined quantities and that's extremely up our alley so we made a beer about it and now you can/should have some! 

Anyway, while we're on about things that are good we feel the need to remind y'all that we've now got a friggin' record store in our taproom and if we're being honest with each other I'm pretty sure that Chris (the dude that runs the record store, not that Chris) is putting records that I personally want** into the displays just to taunt me but anyway the point is that we've got a cool ass record store in house and you should come check it out!

And moving on to fun times, we've got MCU Trivia (and also pies from Seabiscuit) this Thursday and we've got some extra special prizes that are definitely not just crap that Jared bought from the dollar store but anyway the point is that trivia and meat pies are a surprisingly good combination, so you should come hang out with us!

And then on Saturday we start our Weekend O' Fun, starting with Stoner Metal Yoga in the morning and then we transition seamlessly into Girl Scout Cookie and Beer pairing all afternoon/evening which you honestly don't wanna miss because we've put in the legwork to make sure that every cookie/beer pairing is pretty much perfect and also that continues on through Sunday so you've really got no excuse not to come on by, so come on by! 

And then if we're looking to the farflung future of next week, it behooves us to mention that we have a Pour Painting class next Tuesday that honestly sounds hella fun and then next Thursday we have our monthly comedy night that probably won't revert to Jokes Delivered by Emergency Lighting (again), but who knows! Comedy night is a mystery to all and anything can happen, especially if nobody tells the building and/or fire department about any of this. Anyway, we should also mention that next Friday we've got a Band Hangouts slash beer release and the beer we're releasin' is an IPA for Actor Observer, who's gonna be at them Band Hangs and anyway that's gonna be hella fun and you should come! ​

* Hop hash is actually pretty similar in principle to regular hash. Hops are flowering cones of the humulus lupus plant, and all the stuff we're interested in (alpha acids and aromatic oils, in this case) is contained in oil glands full of yellowish waxy liquid. In hops, we call it "lupulin" but if you're a cannabis connoisseur you could make an easy analogy to kief, Anyway, hop hash is all the stuff that gets scraped off the processing machinery at the end of the hop harvest. 
** Every god damn week there's a new record I need to talk myself out of buying. How does he even know that I like Kool Keith?