The Prodigal Loretta Returns

​Man oh man have we got a weekend jam-packed fulla good times for all y'all this weekend, so read on and read up 'cuz the gettin's gonna get good!

Hello spring. I see you.

First up - on Thursday - is our trusty cask, and we done trussed up a right trustworthy lil' number: Shut Up Kelly! And since we done had that on cask last week, we decided to "mix things up" a bit and "do something that's been hella tasty before" - namely add in a handful of oak chips that have been soaking in Grand Ten's Irish whiskey!

The best kind of Thursday ritual.

And to "sweeten the deal" on Thursday, it's Simpsons Trivia Night! It's a fun time in its own right, but also we feel like that dude in the "Nuke the Whales" shirt* has been sittin' pretty as Master of Trivia for too long now, and we think you are the one to put him in his dang ol' place.

Moving on, we have got one hell of a Friday lined up for you guys. See, our new friends from Vaulted are putting out a new record, and they thought it would be cool to make a beer to go with that record, and that's where we come in.

So. This Friday, we're hosting Vaulted and doing a record release kinda shindig and we're releasing that beer I just talked about (it's called Chaos Reigns, BTW) and there's gonna be a "listening party" whatever that means and there's frickin' rad t-shirts and just for (additional) laughs, we've got our pals from Brato comin' in with a shitton of spicy food! Oh, and if that weren't enough, Vaulted has the same affinity for "drinking for a cause" that we do, so $1 per pour of Chaos Reigns is getting donated to Trans Lifeline! So come on out and hang with metalheads and eat spicy food in our taproom, because that's definitely totally different than what it's normally like here!

Beer!

And keepin' the party rollin, this Saturday is Loretta Day! Who and/or what is Loretta, you ask? Well, let me tell you a long story about that! A little ways back, we made a ridiculous purple beer** using a whole buncha purple and/or red stuff, including but not limited to hibiscus. It was... kinda purple... I guess. Anyway there was a little hibiscus left, so we asked ourselves the logical question: "what if we used, like, way too much of this stuff in one beer?" And here's the answer to that question! And since we were still in our "let's make up Brand Characters™ to name beers after" phase, we named it after Horatio's heretofore-unknown Aunt Loretta and anyway you should come drink it!

Bringer of patio goodtimes.

Also, as a potentially odd footnote to that event, the city of Everett is also hosting its River Cleanup Day afterparty in our parking lot on Saturday, so pretty much everybody from City Hall will be eating hot dogs and drinking beer in our parking lot (and probably smoking cigars, knowing this town) for the first few hours of the day and also there will probably be a band on our patio. 

* Hi Crombie!
** I don't want to say "as a joke" because that implies we didn't take it seriously, but we did it as a joke because we didn't take it seriously.