In "Witch" Spookums Abound!

Howdy friends! We've got much ado about doin's, so let's do it to it and do it up right! 

But first, a programming note - as of Tuesday, November 1st we will be switching to our winter hours!

Come hang out in the dark with us

And while we're on about Moderate Bummer News, there will be no cask this week, which I did warn you was gonna happen at some point, and honestly it's probably for the best to not have to think about cask what with all the candy that's happening this weekend anyway. 

But! We must move forward, not backward! Upward, not forward! And always twirling, twirling toward new beer! Thassright, we've got a new beer on tap and it's on tap right now and there's actually kind of a neat story* behind this one! See, we've been encouraging (badgering) our friends at Four Star Farms to grow some galena because we think it's a cool hop and we wanted to see what the ol' New England terroir** might bring to the table for this particular hop and anyway they grew some this past year and since they only had a bit of it they decided to give it to us! Now, it was a bit of a learning experience for us on account of how these cool experimental hops were in "whole leaf" form and they showed up in a giant ridiculous brick (as opposed to the compact bags of pellets we're used to) and anyway we decided that the best thing for us to do would be to take a big chunk off that giant brick o' hops and chuck it in as the dry hop in a tasty lil' ESB and anyway it's called Trial Run and it's tasty as hell and you should drink some! ​

How it started

How it's going

And in even more news, we've got some spooktacular new merch! More to the point, we've got some sweet new hoodies (and a limited number of sweet matching t shirts if that's more your speed) and also this year's flannels are in (and for you flannel fans out there, this year's flannels are on the lighter side - much more like a "medium weight shirt" instead of the "basically a coat, complete with side pockets" that we had last year) and anyway if you wanna get warm and cozy in style, now's your chance!

Flannels! Flan! Flannel! Flanne

And plowin' right along into all the cool stuff what we gonna be doin' this weekend, this Thursday is Horror Movie Trivia! We'll be gettin' all spooked up on all the spooktacular spookums like that one creature with all the teeth and that haunted place and maybe that one guy who stabbed all those teens and anyway it's gonna be hella fun and there's gonna be prizes and good times galore and you should come hang out!

YAS

And speaking of spooktacular good times, we're gonna be doing beer and candy flights all dang weekend! The good times start on Thursday (also known as "gentleman's Friday") and continue through Monday (because it would be weird to stop doing it the day before halloween) and anyway the deal is that we painstakingly went through our entire draft list (except for the beer that came out today, that one is pending) and came up with two different candy pairings for each beer (one chocolate, one non chocolate) and we'll be servin' up some specially curated beer and candy flights (and/or candy pairings with full pours, but we're not doing "choose your own beer and candy flights" this year on account of how we don't want to make our bartenders hate us) and it's gonna be tasty times all weekend and you should come hang out!

Bellyache, commence

And if that weren't enough to entice you out to our digs, we've got a full slate of spooktacular food popups on the roster as well! We've got Tres Latinas comin' by on Thursday and then El Pelon on Friday and Tubb's Donuts on Saturday Morning (Hocus Pocus theme!) followed by Matilda's Pastelitos on Saturday Afternoon and then we're roundin' out the weekend with Kuya's Cooking on Sunday (and also our regularly scheduled sushi class on Sunday and also Wednesday) and anyway if you're lookin' for tasty times then look no further because we're bringin' the eats all weekend!

You guys everyone's food is so good

And now, as we are wont to do, let's take a trip down, uh, future lane and check out all the cool stuff we got goin' on in the futuristic landscape of next week! And holy hell, we've got a lot of stuff going on - there's a fondue making class next Wednesday and I'm not entirely sure what that is but I must go and then on Thursday we've got Audio Triviality up in the house again and the theme is "Kings and Queens" (think Queens of the Stone Age, King Diamond, stuff like that) and that's gonna be fun as hell and then on Friday we're hosting a vinyl release and listening party for "Upon the Apex" by Rah Zen (as presented by Light of Day Records) and on Saturday we've got a Music Marketplace with a buncha cool vendors (including a coffee roaster in addition to all the cool music stuff and also a "vinyl summit" at some point in the day) and anyway the point is we've got hell of cool stuff on the docket for next week, but also there's a buncha candy to be had in the here and now so I'm gonna go have some candy now.

* There's also a story that involves some amount of crying, but we'll leave that one be. 
** That's French for "dirt"