In Which We Are Still Here, For Now

Howdy friends! We here at Bummer Announcements Incorporated made another big ol' bummer announcement recently, so click on over here if you're not yet up to speed on that. And yeah, it is a massive bummer (I mentioned this), but we're still here for now and we're still doin' as much cool shit as we can possibly cram into our schedule, so let's party it up while there's still parties to be partied!*
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And we'll kick things off this week with what will hopefully be some "frown upside down" kinda news** for y'all and that's the triumphant return of cask! Our cask program returns from its lengthy slumber (two week hiatus) with taproom-favorite Extra Naked and in honor of this most auspicious of occasions we also dry hopped the cask with a buncha Pekko and it's gonna be great and also it's getting tapped on Thursday and you should drink some! 

And while we're goin' on about beer, there's more new beer on the way! This one's a collab with local black metal outfit Sacral and it's in celebration of their latest album which is called Three of Cups, so we went ahead and called the beer that too and it's a tasty-ass brown ale that's pretty much brimming with chai spices (or at least as "brimming" as we get around here, we tend to prefer subtlety with spices) and it's (probably) gonna be available in cans starting on Friday and you should drink some! It good!

And now to get to the Fun Times portion of this ol' blog we're gonna take a bit of a step back chronologically all the way back to Thursday which is when we're hosting Simpsons Trivia! The theme this time is almost definitely Season Eight which is cool because that was a very good season and anyway it's gonna be hella fun so come hang!

And getting back to things that are good and/or on Friday, this year's Pulpo Day starts on Friday! For those of you that ain't "in the know" on Pulpo Day, it's our annual celebration of our seasonal chocolate orange imperial stout El Pulpo! We're gonna be tappin' up a buncha variations/vintages of El Pulpo, including this year's version and also this year's barrel-aged release, plus several cellared kegs/bottles of El Pulpo from years past (both barreled and non barreled) and if you're into stouts or dark beer or barrel-aged stuff then you're in for a treat! (and yes, we did order more chocolate oranges this year, so you'll be getting treats with your treats, as it were) 

And much like most of our made-up holidays, Pulpo Day is a multi-day celebration! It starts on Friday (I mentioned this) and we'll have all that Pulpo goodness on tap and also we'll have Sekali in the house servin' up some tasty-ass Malaysian food, then on Saturday we're starting the day with some Emo Yoga and then gettin' back on the Pulpo Train and also Seabiscuit will be here with a buncha savory and sweet pies (seriously, the cheeseburger pie is pretty much the best) and anyway it's a buncha fun and you should come hang with us!

And then on Sunday our regularly-scheduled sushi classes are back to their regularly-scheduled sushi focus and also it won't officially be Pulpo Day anymore but odds are very good that we'll still have a bunch of El Pulpo on hand, so swing on through if you missed the festivities and/or you want more stout! 

And then moving on to next week for a little bit, next Saturday we've got another show in the taproom! Our friends in Sexless Marriage put out a new album and we all thought it would be rad to have their album release show at our digs (we had a grindcore band play the taproom last week, power violence should probably go just as well, right?) and they're also playing with Dewey and Wire Lines and if you wanna see some cool local bands play in a space that was definitely not intended to host these kinds of things (it's part of the charm, trust us) then you should come on out because it's gonna be a blast!

* If you end up thinking something along the lines of "dang, this blog seems mighty cheerful given the gravitas of the announcement they just linked," we definitely understand and we don't want you to think that we don't care or anything like that. It's more that we try to keep the tone light around here, and we've had lots of practice at pretending to be cheerful while the world crumbles around us (see: Kafka Day, covid times, most of this calendar year when we couldn't talk about this nonsense, etc)
** Though admittedly this good news is maybe just a teensy bit smaller in scope than the bad news was/is