In Which We Begin to Party

Well hello again! After a peculiar* start to our week, we're right on rockin' and rollin' and that's a good thing because it's once again that that magical time of year when we spend every moment of every day getting amped about and/or shouting about our upcoming birthday party! We actually usually start all the "pre-celebration yelling" much earlier, but it turns out that things are all complicated this year and anyway we've got some fun beer stuff to talk about first so let's get to it!

Not a cocktail, but tastes like a cocktail. 

And first up on that ol' list of fun times and/or tasty beers is Critters XIII! Since it's following hot on the heels of its predecessor (the cleverly-named Critters XII), we figured we'd throw a bit of a "curveball" and whoa nelly is this ball curvy. Born from our desire to see what would happen if we dumped a bunch of ginger puree into a brett beer, this beer brings the ginger and a buncha funk and just some general darkness and/or storminess (in that it very much tastes like a Dark 'n Stormy. Trust us, you gotta try this one). Anyway, it's on tap right now and we've got a pretty limited quantity so you should come getcha some!

Revels! Triumph! Adventure! New hop combo!

And if you're in the mood for something a bit less funky, this Friday we're releasing a brand-spankin'-new IPA (on draft and in cans) called Into the Unknown! We put a bunch of our favorite stuff in it, so we know it's good, but you should still probably drink a bunch of it so you know for yourself!

It begins...

Okay! Lastly! Our birthday party! Since the taproom is turning FIVE FRIGGIN' YEARS OLD this year and since last year's party was a little more.... restrained than we would have liked it to be, we figured we'd go as all-out as possible for 2021.

​We're still in the process of figuring out what some of that means** but we figured we'd give you a little "teaser" on the stuff we have figured out. Anyway, our last birthday party featured seven bands over the course of a day, and that was completely rad but it was also... kind of a lot? Logistically? So with that in mind, this year we figured we'd take our one day celebration and stretch it out into THREE WHOLE*** DAYS (specifically August 27, 28, and 29) and we've currently got an as-yet-undetermined number of bands (we've already gotten confirmation from a bunch. Maybe eight? Ten? I don't even know anymore) and some cool vendors (both food and otherwise) and we've maybe got a few other tricks up our sleeves**** and anyway keep your eyes peeled for more concrete details because we're gonna be hootin' and hollerin' about this for a little while yet and also it's gonna be fun and you should come!

* At the start of the week, we were accused - via two separate but identical emails from "A Concerned Parent" - of supporting a "dishonest and destructive organization." Turns out this person didn't like our Black Lives Matter flags and wanted to find the most condescending possible way to tell us that. I would say "there's a lot to unpack here," but my head starts to hurt if I think about it for more than three seconds, so there will be no unpacking done today. 
** We've also got a few added wrinkles from a planning perspective, like the fact that we don't really have a way to expand our physical space this year (at least not without several other tenants in the building throwing tantrums). 
*** I mean, there probably won't be a ton happening early in the day on Friday, so it's not three WHOLE days. We don't expect you to take time off of work for this or anything. 
**** We do not have other tricks up our sleeves.