Well, shit. We tried. But good ol' Mother Nature had some other ideas about whether or not we should have hosted our covid-compliant socially-distanced birthday-related semi-celebrations last week, so instead it was just a regular ol' rainy Saturday.
But! Setbacks end up being the name of the game around here half the time anyway, so we'll persevere or whatever and get festive this coming Saturday instead! That means we'll have the same meats and the same treats on the same schedule that we woulda done last week - which is to say, Po'Boys and Pies from 12-5 and T.C. Scoops from 6-9 - and, since y'all have been extra special good, we're doin' another bottle release this week!
Thassright, this time around we're releasin' Ginger Disco - it'll be available in bottles on Saturday and on tap at some point. This here's another barrel-aged spin on taproom-favorite Ginger Spectacular, only this time we aged that sucker in a Summer Reserve barrel from our friends around the way at Short Path!
Long story short, Summer Reserve is an intensely fruity blueberry liqueur which, when paired with strong ginger farmhouse, gives you a sweet (yet still moreish) smooth sipper which we daresay would pair perfectly with a scoop or two of ice cream (and maybe some fruit crumble if you're feelin' fancy). Or, to paraphrase one of the members* of our tasting panel, it tastes like what you'd find on the inside of stuffed French toast, which is oddly specific but also oddly accurate. Anyway it's good and you should drink some.
Long story short, Summer Reserve is an intensely fruity blueberry liqueur which, when paired with strong ginger farmhouse, gives you a sweet (yet still moreish) smooth sipper which we daresay would pair perfectly with a scoop or two of ice cream (and maybe some fruit crumble if you're feelin' fancy). Or, to paraphrase one of the members* of our tasting panel, it tastes like what you'd find on the inside of stuffed French toast, which is oddly specific but also oddly accurate. Anyway it's good and you should drink some.
On a completely unrelated note, we had the pleasure of visiting our pals at Four Star Farms for the fifth year in a row last Friday! We crammed as many of the Bone Up Crew as were allowed into our caravan and trekked on out to Central Mass to frolic in the hop yards, pluck cones from the bines, and whiff up all of them fruity aromas for the afternoon. About half of the hops we use in our beers come from right here, and we got a private tour of the hop farming process from ancient dirt to cultivating hop varietals all the way to picking and harvesting (if anyone's interested, they were harvesting Casade (or dare we say... Masscade?) while we were visiting)! Thank you to Liz and the whole L'Etoile family - you never disappoint!
* Hi Ben!
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