Hello friends! We're just over TWO WEEKS from our dang favorite time of year and that of course is our birthday party (which we've been shouting about for a month or so at this point, but we will still remind you that it's Friday August 27th through Sunday August 29th) and it's gonna be heaps of fun and you should absolutely come join us and raise a glass to five friggin' years of Taproom Times down here at ol' Bone Up and in the meantime there are few things we want to do more than stick our fingers in our ears and completely ignore the fact that things Out In The World are looking increasingly grim these days, only that's not really our style around here. SO. We'll talk about the Real Serious Adult Stuff and then we'll get back to prancing around and giggling and gushing about our birthday party.
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So. Unless you've been living under a particularly accommodating rock these past few weeks/months (which honestly sounds like a good idea from a health/safety standpoint), there's been some less-than-stellar (read: horrifying, or at least horrifying-adjacent) news about this whole pandemic situation.
Anyway we're not here to rehash a bunch of stuff you've already heard (unless you're under the aforementioned rock, in which case you should probably just skip this paragraph and/or stay under that rock for a while) because the current Issue Of The Day is "vaccine passports" and to be honest we've got a lot of complicated feelings about those, but the tl;dr is that we're not requiring them yet, with a big emphasis on the word "yet." Among other things, we're expecting that at some point - probably sooner rather than later - we'll be getting new rules from The Gubbermint about this, and we'd rather not invent our own system only to have to redo it from scratch two weeks later when the state issues its own well-intentioned-but-frankly-perplexing* set of guidelines.
And (assuming that does happen) even if the state's rules are weird and annoying, at least they'll (hopefully) be uniform - that seems better than having a bunch of brewers/bar owners/restaurateurs making their own judgment calls on matters of public health and then implementing a million different janky fixes to a problem they don't fully understand.**
So there you have it. We're not really sticking our heads in the sand, but we're not exactly springing into action, either. At least not yet.
Anyway we're not here to rehash a bunch of stuff you've already heard (unless you're under the aforementioned rock, in which case you should probably just skip this paragraph and/or stay under that rock for a while) because the current Issue Of The Day is "vaccine passports" and to be honest we've got a lot of complicated feelings about those, but the tl;dr is that we're not requiring them yet, with a big emphasis on the word "yet." Among other things, we're expecting that at some point - probably sooner rather than later - we'll be getting new rules from The Gubbermint about this, and we'd rather not invent our own system only to have to redo it from scratch two weeks later when the state issues its own well-intentioned-but-frankly-perplexing* set of guidelines.
And (assuming that does happen) even if the state's rules are weird and annoying, at least they'll (hopefully) be uniform - that seems better than having a bunch of brewers/bar owners/restaurateurs making their own judgment calls on matters of public health and then implementing a million different janky fixes to a problem they don't fully understand.**
So there you have it. We're not really sticking our heads in the sand, but we're not exactly springing into action, either. At least not yet.
Also, get yourself vaccinated if you aren't already. For fuck's sake. Please.
Alright! After all that cheerfulness, I could really use a beer. Or several. And as luck would have it, we just released a new beer! Or several!
"Weisstro-Special Bitter"
And first on that ol' docket is Seven X's! This here is the fifth dang beer we've brewed to pair with the music of The Weisstronauts and this time around they hinted that their music might go quite nicely with something in the ESB neighborhood so we whipped up a lightly-malty lil' treat (full of local hops and local grains, as is our style these days) and dang but if it ain't tasty! It's surefire smooth and all-around pleasant and we sure do expect that we'd have a fine time gettin' to know it over the course of an entire day (not unlike the music it was meant to pair with) and it's out in cans right now and you should try some!
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And! We just so happen to have another birthday beer available in cans right now and that's Blood Built! This is the fourth year in a row that we've made this lil' dry stout to pair with the music of Blood Built Empire and there's a reason we keep coming back*** to it year after year, and that reason is that it's delicious! But you ain't gotta take our word for it - come getcha some!
Dog! Pool! Party!
Also! If you're lookin' for something to do while you're drinkin' all these new beers (and/or revisiting old favorites), our dog pool party - co-hosted by Harvey's Hope - is this Sunday 12-4! We'll be blockin' off part of the beer garden and settin' up some pools for pooches to get their splash on! It'll be a ton of fun, or at least some very cute dog-watching (possibly from outside the "splash 'n shake zone"), so come on by and join us!
Tired about hearing 'bout our birthday bash yet? No? Great!
Oh! And! To get back talkin' about our ol' birthday party for just a wee bit, we've got a couple more friends joining us that we haven't yet gotten a chance to shout about, so here goes!
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On Friday (August 27th), in addition to the brewers' barbecue, we'll be hosting TC Scoops and their ice cream bus! They happen to specialize in ice cream flights that not-so-coincidentally pair very well with some of our beer flights and honestly we've been dreaming about this ice cream since the last time we had it, so we predict you gon' enjoy!
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Then on Saturday (August 28th) we've got our friend(s) from Heads Up Screenprinting comin' by to do some live screenprinting! They'll have a handful of designs to choose from (some of them exclusive to this particular event) and they'll print on damn near anything you ask 'em to! More to the point, that means that if you wanna get our designs printed on some clothing/tote bags/bedsheets that you already own (rather than buying all new stuff, which is also an option. Except for maybe the bedsheets), you totally can! So bring some stuff on by and get it all printed up!
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And lastly, no birthday party would be complete without a visit from Alex (of Alex's Ugly Sauce), so we're bringin' him in on Sunday (August 29th)! We figure hot sauce is the perfect accompaniment for shoveling fried chicken into your face as you bemoan the choices you made the previous night, which means you'll get to step right on up to that ol' sauce saloon and burn off that hangover come Sunday morning!
* Why yes, I AM still annoyed that we had to pretend to be a restaurant for ten months.
** We very much include ourselves in the "they" who don't fully understand the problem. We're hardly epidemiologists, which is why we just try to follow the rules we're given.
*** If you want to get all technical about it, it's kinda-sorta a different recipe every year, except for all the ways that it isn't. In short, we use the same grains every time, but we use different brands of the same stuff (most notably roasted barley), and that actually makes a pretty big difference it turns out.
* Why yes, I AM still annoyed that we had to pretend to be a restaurant for ten months.
** We very much include ourselves in the "they" who don't fully understand the problem. We're hardly epidemiologists, which is why we just try to follow the rules we're given.
*** If you want to get all technical about it, it's kinda-sorta a different recipe every year, except for all the ways that it isn't. In short, we use the same grains every time, but we use different brands of the same stuff (most notably roasted barley), and that actually makes a pretty big difference it turns out.
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