What, just because it’s Christmas you didn’t think you’d get a blog post? Well here we are. And let’s talk about January 3rd:

New Year, New Beer

On January 3rd from 12-8 we’re hosting a shindig of sorts: New Year, New Beer. What will we have? Well:

We’ll unveil our new year round offering, That IPA. Brewed with Simcoe & Mosaic, That IPA just plain kicks ass.

I know what you’re thinking. Only one beer? Just a few days after New Year’s Eve? Why leave my nice, warm house? Well how about a few more? We’ll also have, for the first time ever, ABV IPA, brewed for Mike Shatzel’s new ABV burger bar in Allentown. And a brewery only release of an oldie but goodie, IPFrank. And a double dry hopped cask of The IPA. And Singularity (Galaxy). And a new batch of The End Is Rye. And maybe a surprise. Or two surprises. All beers will be available for samples, glasses and growler fills.*

*Ok, ok. No growler fills of the cask. Sorry.

The beer we have

The short-lived Duality

You’ve been busy. That cask of Duality didn’t even make it until I got in on Tuesday. Not that I’m bitter. I’m just a bit bitter.

• Frank
• The Whale
• The IPA
• Stout Affective Disorder
• Saison #1
• Rosemary’s Snow Baby

Events in the next week

Not so much an event as a lack of events: don’t forget that we’re closed today and tomorrow. We’ll be open 12-4 as usual on Saturday.

The winner of the arm wrestling at Hydraulic Hearth

What else we’ve been up to

• Last week we kicked off our pint-selling with a cask of The Whale!
• This week we had Duality (Galaxy/Mosaic), which kicked in just over a day.
• Over the past two weeks we had tastings at four different Consumers. I staffed the Saturday one and it was great to talk to everyone!
• This week’s #sundayread was The Belly of the Beast, a look inside the Anheuser Busch pilot brewery
• Last night was Festivus! I learned I do not know any Seinfeld trivia.
• Hydraulic Hearth is probably the last place in Buffalo with Heatrays.
• Seinfeld trivia ended with a tie for second place. So, naturally, they arm wrestled (see above).
• And then some reposts from holidays past, starting with the Christmas beer and music podcast¹ Alex and I did last year.
• A Christmas poem
• Rudy the local brewer
• Another carol for your holidays

And finally

• Not in the spirit of things at all, but something that’s been sitting in my Instapaper account, begging to be read: Escape from Jonestown
• Think this post was too long?