Howdy-do friends and, uh, friends! We're inchin' ever-closer to our birthday party (which we'll be hosting from August 27th through August 29th), so barring any big weird news* we'll just get to shoutin' about the festivities and all the cool beers we brewed for you to drink at said festivities!
Just a high quality summer sunset. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Oh, but speaking of "news," we got approved to keep our beer garden open! We actually didn't talk about this all that much before because of reasons, but our beer garden was technically "temporary" and was originally only allowed to exist because of the State of Emergency, which ended June 15th (which means we would have had to shut down most of our seating starting on August 15th). But! We got approval last week, so that's one less thing for us to panic about! Woo!
We love stouts, stouty stout stouts
Anyway. Moving on to beer. And to kick things off, we'd like to somewhat sheepishly say that we kinda sorta announced one of the wrong beers last week because SOMEbody (Jared) couldn't be bothered to double check which beers had/hadn't been announced and/or read previous blog posts. Anyway, that means that Blood Built got extra attention (which it should because it's delicious) and also that means that we've got THREE beers to talk about this week!
::: bracing ourselves for everyone who's going to order the "Blue Maniac" :::
First in that lineup is a beer brewed for some newcomers to our stage: Blue Manic! And using our legendary Bone Up Beer Naming Creativity, we named the beer Blue Manic!** Anyway it's a pale ale with a bit of honey and a handful of spruce tips and it's mighty tasty and it's available in cans, like, a week ago and you should drink some!
The goat knows what's good for you, and it's smoked beer
Next on up is a recurring beer for a band who has been a part of our festivities for a little while now, and that band/beer is Organ Meats! Organ Meats (the beer) is a nice 'n light 'n easy-drinkin' smoked beer that (as we've learned from experience) is sure to befuddle and/or delight you! And if you want a bit of an "insider tip" about this beer, we actually change up the smoked malt that we use every year and this year we went with a somewhat milder-tasting smoke source (beechwood, as opposed to last year's cherrywood) so it's a smidge more subtle (inasmuch as something like this can be subtle) and anyway it's in cans right now and it is indeed quite tasty!
The new and improved raspberry lime rickey
And! Lastly but far from leastly in our lineup of birthday beer releases for this week is Electric Juicer! This beer was brewed to pair with the tunes of another set of newcomers to our stage: The Electric Heaters! They'll be bringin' the surf rock, so we figured we'd go with something light and fruity and so we dumped a buncha raspberry and lime into a grisette and now we've got this beer available in cans right now and on draft at some point and it's hella good and you should drink it!
:) :) :)
And moving away from the beers brewed for bands, it behooves us to let y'all know who's playin' when, so here goes!
On Friday, August 27th our metal (or possibly post metal? I'll admit that I don't know what "post" means when applied to music styles) friends from Lesser Glow are kickin' things off with a bang (probably starting around 6:30, which isn't exactly a really metal time of day), to be followed by some intense (post) punk provided by Blood Built Empire and then that's about it because we're not supposed to have music past like 9:30 or so.
Then on Saturday, August 28th we're startin' off (circa 1 PM) with some stoner metal from Blue Manic and then headin' straight into a buncha surf rock courtesy of The Wiesstronauts and then The Electric Heaters! Then we're back to stoner metal with Organ Meats and we're cappin' it off with some punk from the Guilloteenagers!
And to finish off the weekend, on Sunday, August 29th we're startin' the day off right (also circa 1 PM) with some prog rock from our pals in DnA's Evolution, followed by MORE Weisstronauts (we think surf rock is pretty much ideal day-drinking music, can you tell?) and then we're bringin' the swing with Sunken City! And then just in case you haven't listened to enough surf rock over the course of the weekend, we've got another set from The Electric Heaters to finish off the weekend!
Anyway, we've said this a jillion times before but we are pretty much continually amazed that all these awesome bands want to come out to our birthday party and play music on what is essentially a converted loading dock and it just gives us the straight-up Warm Fuzzies to think about how cool it is that we get to do stuff like this. We'll try not to get all teary-eyed about friendship or whatever until this is all said and done, but the point is that this is gonna be hella fun and we're excited as all get-out that we get to share it with you!
* We actually wrote this blog ahead of time, which is pretty uncharacteristic for us - usually it's frantically typed out at the literal last minute because SOMEbody has poor time management skills. Anyway, we (the authors of this here blog) have a Personal Obligation to go to the beach for a week so we're kinda just assuming that there won't be any new news for a couple weeks. Seems like a safe bet, right?
** Naming beers is harder than you think, okay?
* We actually wrote this blog ahead of time, which is pretty uncharacteristic for us - usually it's frantically typed out at the literal last minute because SOMEbody has poor time management skills. Anyway, we (the authors of this here blog) have a Personal Obligation to go to the beach for a week so we're kinda just assuming that there won't be any new news for a couple weeks. Seems like a safe bet, right?
** Naming beers is harder than you think, okay?
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