Well hey there! We're comin' atcha with another week fulla beer and good times and snacks and all that fun stuff, so let's cut the chitchat and get to the good stuff!
And to start things off, we've got something that can at best be loosely defined as "good stuff" and that's another Expansion Update. This time around there's been some real, actual, tangible progress and it's something that wasn't done 60% of the way and then abandoned, so this is actually a bit of a first when dealing with buildout in this building. Anyway, the Big Exciting News is that our (soon to be) bathrooms have tile now! Woo! Definitely never thought I'd get this worked up about grout, but here we are. Anyway the main step that's left on those ol' bathrooms is putting in the fixtures, but the building's plumber won't do it until the walls are painted* so we're gettin' on that as quick as we can and hopefully soon enough we'll have (60% of) some damn fixtures in there!
And to start things off, we've got something that can at best be loosely defined as "good stuff" and that's another Expansion Update. This time around there's been some real, actual, tangible progress and it's something that wasn't done 60% of the way and then abandoned, so this is actually a bit of a first when dealing with buildout in this building. Anyway, the Big Exciting News is that our (soon to be) bathrooms have tile now! Woo! Definitely never thought I'd get this worked up about grout, but here we are. Anyway the main step that's left on those ol' bathrooms is putting in the fixtures, but the building's plumber won't do it until the walls are painted* so we're gettin' on that as quick as we can and hopefully soon enough we'll have (60% of) some damn fixtures in there!
And since we're talking about unexpected good news, it's pertinent to mention that the taproom has a new pinball machine! More to the point, it's the Iron Maiden machine and it's hella fun which is good because we've been asking our pinball guy(s) to bring us this machine since we found out it existed (probably about five years ago) and it finally happened! We wore them down! Or something!
And speaking of good things, let's talk about beer! And first up on that list ("the beer list") is cask! We're putting tried-and-true Shut Up Kelly on cask and due to some "clerical errors"** this cask is once again fortified with some maple-liqueur-soaked oak chips but that ain't a bad thing because we know it's gonna be tasty as heck and it's gettin' tapped Thursday and you should try some!
And if you need even more tasty beer, we've got even more tasty beer! We've got a new beer comin' out and it's part of yet another cool collab! This time around it's another collab with our friends from Vox & Hops (who you might remember as the force behind the 2021 collab that resulted in The Great Equalizer, which was our first collab with Fuming Mouth, who is the band we collabed with for Master of Extremity, which came out two weeks ago. Got all that?) and they're doin' a worldwide collab of "mosh pit themed" beers and ours is a misfit IPA (which seemed fitting for the theme) and we're callin' it Collateral Moshing and it's available in cans on Friday and also it's the beer release for this month's Band Hangouts (more on that in a bit) and you should drink some!
And if you need even more tasty beer, we've got even more tasty beer! We've got a new beer comin' out and it's part of yet another cool collab! This time around it's another collab with our friends from Vox & Hops (who you might remember as the force behind the 2021 collab that resulted in The Great Equalizer, which was our first collab with Fuming Mouth, who is the band we collabed with for Master of Extremity, which came out two weeks ago. Got all that?) and they're doin' a worldwide collab of "mosh pit themed" beers and ours is a misfit IPA (which seemed fitting for the theme) and we're callin' it Collateral Moshing and it's available in cans on Friday and also it's the beer release for this month's Band Hangouts (more on that in a bit) and you should drink some!
And movin' on into fun events for the week(end), we've got some fun events for you! The first one is tonight (Wednesday) and it's Rock Band Night! We've got some friends who are Very Enthusiastic about the game Rock Band and so they're settin' up the projector*** and also all the accoutrements**** for the game and it's free to play, so come on by!
And then on Thursday we've got Left Couch Comedy comin' by for our monthly comedy night! We'll be transforming our side room into somehow-not-the-world's-smallest comedy club and hosting several local comedians over the course of the night and every one of these that we've had so far has been full of downright knee-slappers and we've got no reason to believe that's gonna stop and also we've got some tasty eats on offer from Adriano's Tacos, so come on by and get your giggle and/or munch on!
And since we were talking about Band Hangouts (it was a few paragraphs ago, but it's ok if you forgot already. There were a lot of words between there and here), this Friday is this month's Bang Hangouts! We've got Severed Boy and Knock Over City and BEDTIMEMAGIC all comin' by and hangin' out and slingin' merch and we're gonna be listening to their music (over the taproom speakers, not live) (also Casket Rats had to drop out at the last minute because of Reasons) and as an Added Treat we're gonna have Lobzter King in the house for the first time since the fall and their food is straight-up delicious (and also we're doing a collab beer with them in the future but shh don't tell anybody) and it's gonna be a whole buncha fun and you should come hang out!
And then movin' farther into the future (but not before we mention our weekly Sunday sushi class that's still goin' strong) we've got some cool stuff next week too! Next Thursday we've got Bonsai Bar back in the house to help you cultivate some tiny trees and then next Friday we've got a (ticketed) Vinyl 101 session hosted by our in-house record shop Light of Day Records and anyway the point is that there's hella fun stuff to do and you should come do fun stuff (even, or perhaps especially, if your idea of "fun stuff" overlaps strongly with "sitting around")!
* If you're saying "that makes no sense, it sounds like he's just making weird excuses so he can put it off," then we're right there with you. But also this particular person doesn't usually feel the need to have an excuse to not do things, so who knows
** We meant to send the maple cask to NERAX and tap one with cherry-liqueur-soaked oak chips, but the person filling the casks mixed them up and NERAX uses a different type of cask than we do (they use the real ones, we use a much jankier setup that's somehow also better?) and that means we couldn't swap them. So if you want to try the cask that we *meant* to tap in the taproom this week, go to NERAX! Hell, go to NERAX anyway! It's a lot of fun!
*** We really should use that projector more often.
**** I actually have no idea what goes into playing this game. I know there are instruments, but my knowledge starts and ends there despite having been around people actively playing it.
** We meant to send the maple cask to NERAX and tap one with cherry-liqueur-soaked oak chips, but the person filling the casks mixed them up and NERAX uses a different type of cask than we do (they use the real ones, we use a much jankier setup that's somehow also better?) and that means we couldn't swap them. So if you want to try the cask that we *meant* to tap in the taproom this week, go to NERAX! Hell, go to NERAX anyway! It's a lot of fun!
*** We really should use that projector more often.
**** I actually have no idea what goes into playing this game. I know there are instruments, but my knowledge starts and ends there despite having been around people actively playing it.
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