In Which We Double Check to Make Sure it's Pulpo Time (It is Indeed Pulpo Time)

Ahoy mateys! Here be a fine blog, the yarest set of updates there be. So shiver them timbers and read on, because we've got good times galore for you scurvy scallywags! 

And to start things off on an appropriately anticlimactic note, we ain't got no new beers this week, not even a cask. But! That's because all of the beers we're packaging this week are for cool stuff we're doin' next week (and also cask will return next week), so you'll just have to trust us that it'll be worth the wait!

Oh! And also we're in the process of recovering from our recent, largely-unprecedented* run on Extra Naked, which means (in practical terms) that Extra Naked is gonna be back on tap starting on Thursday and all will be right with the world once again. ​

mmm... Extra Naked...

And speaking of Thursday, this Thursday is Simpsons Trivia! We're back on the whole "one season per month" train, and this month it's Season Ten! If I remember correctly, this is right around when the show starts to get really buckwild, so hold on to your hats and come hang out with us!

But wait, remember when I said earlier that we didn't have any new beers coming out this week? Well it turns out I was wrong! Or maybe lying! Who** knows! Because starting on Friday and lasting thru Sunday we're celebrating Pulpo Day! And if you're not "hip to the haps" on Pulpo Day (which is reasonable, because it's yet another holiday we made up just for the hell of it), it's the release party for our vaunted chocolate orange imperial stout which we release (in cans and on draft) every winter and which is named - you guessed it - El Pulpo! And to celebrate such an auspicious occasion, we're also releasing the barrel-aged version of the same beer (on tap and in bottles) and all weekend long we'll be tappin' up some rare cellar-aged vintages of El Pulpo (some barrel-aged, some not) and also Liz and Jared doin' a Private Tasting Session of different Pulpo vintages on Friday evening (which probably isn't sold out yet? But it's getting close) and we'll have cool food vendors all weekend - namely Lobzter King on Friday and Adrianos Tacos on Saturday and we're fully stocked on chocolate oranges behind the bar and it's gonna be a hell of a time this weekend and we hope you can join us! ​

We are, like, way too excited for this year's barrel blend. It's so good you guys

And since we can't seem to stop at doing one event at a time, we'll also be out In The World on Saturday! More to the point, we'll be at the Hartshorne House in Wakefield doin' up some beer and cheese funtimes and also learnin' up on some local history, so if you're in the area you should come on out!

Get tickets here: Beer and Cheese Tasting

And speaking of further fun times this weekend, we're still keepin' on hosting sushi classes with Chef Harold on Sunday so if you ain't been to one yet, come check it out! 

And looking forward a bit to next week, we've got some Friendsgiving Fun Times for you next Thursday! We've got our friends from Seabiscuit comin' out and doin' a pie popup (both savory and sweet) and each pie on their menu has a designated beer pairing on our menu because nothing says "friendship" like beer and pies and we're hostin' a Bill Murray trivia night complete with some frankly-ridiculous (even for us) prizes and anyway it's gonna be a blast and you should come out! ​

The pairings ain't nothin' to scoff at either:
Smoked Turkey and Sausage Pie x Shut Up Kelly! Robust Porter
Curry Vegetable Pie x Extra Naked Table Beer
Cheeseburger Pie x Trial Run ESB
Mini Pecan Pies x Honey ‘n Hops DIPA
​Country Custard Pies x El Pulpo Stout

And then glimpsin' ever so slightly more into the future, we've got two cool music-themed beer release parties next weekend! Next Friday we're releasing our collab with Grayskull booking and we're usin' that as an excuse to host some Band Hangouts, and then next Saturday we're releasing our collab with Everett-based recording studio Firekeeper Studios and that's also gonna be a hoot and anyway you've got time to plan ahead but we've got lotsa cool stuff goin' on!

*Among other things, we've semi-recently acquired one of our first-ever "corporate accounts" who will, without warning, do things like order twenty kegs at once for their office. It's rad, but it can do weird things to our keg inventory. 
** Frankly, even *I* don't know which one of those is accurate.