What better way to wind down the week than with some sushi and a beer?

Sushi Bus will be at the tasting room tonight from ~4pm through close making delicious hand rolls and tempura.  See you there!

So, yeah, names are a pain in the posterior.

What we thought was a perfectly awesome, steampunk-themed, nerd-recognizable brewery name is definitely that, but also apparently just similar enough to something else that it could be problematic.  We’re in the process of clarifying this and will update ASAP with the resolution.

…blarg, I need a beer

May’s a busy month – two food trucks and two festivals, plus the Renaming Party!

FOOD TRUCKS

Friday May 10th – Meltdown Foodtruck will be at the tasting room, grilling up all sorts of delicious sandwiches for you from ~4pm to Close.

Sammiches of awesomeness!

Friday May 17th - Sushi Bus is here from ~4pm through Close hand rolling your choice of a bunch of killer snack and dinner options.

Rolls and tempura!

FESTIVALS

Friday May 10th – 7pm to 10pm that night we’ll have a couple kegs at the Oceanside Museum of Art’s Art After Dark Steampunk Extravaganza.

Costumes highly encouraged

Saturday May 11th – 4pm to 8pm we’ll be at the Hwy 78 Festiv(ale) event

Eight breweries and five food trucks!

Friday May 31st and Saturday June 1st – Grand Renaming Party

The Day is Nigh!

This is the last week to get in your name suggestions! Be sure to include your name because if your entry’s chosen then you get a sweet little swag pack of the new gear including a shirt, growler, and glass plus some other goodies to go with them!

Remaining Amazing FBC Merch-ables:

You craft beer fans are an amazing bunch! Thank you all for helping us clear out the inventory of the great Fezziwig’s Brewing Co. gear and make room for a whole slew of new stuff with the new name here in a few weeks.

Logo Pints – sold out!
Vinyl Stickers – all out!
Logo Growlers – about 24 (jackbaur) left
Men’s T-Shirts – about 20, no L or XL left
Men’s Tanks – a bunch in red and a few in black
Women’s T-Shirts – about five, no L or 2X left
Women’s Tanks – about two dozen, mostly in black
Hop Highway Men’s – ten, no S left
Hop Highway Women’s – sold out!

If you’d like to suggest a new name for the brewery, we’re taking ideas through Sunday 4/14 at the absolute latest!  Please try to keep it thematically similar and relatively SFW

Suggestions can be made via Facebook, the website’s Contact Us page, or in person at our tasting room while enjoying a delicious brew.  If your suggestion is chosen, you’ll win a cool swag pack of shirt, growler, logo glass, and some other merch all with the new name and design!

Neutral news first!
Tasting Room is Closed this Easter Sunday 3/31.  Sorry for the late notice, we thought it wasn’t until April.  It’s one of those ‘major holidays’ we take off from work to observe

Flying Monkey 11.3%

Good news – we’ve got new brews this weekend: 

• Voyager 7.1% abv
  • Small tasters, larger tasters, and growlers.
• Marley’s Ghost 8.3% abv
  • Small tasters, larger tasters, and growlers.
• Flying Monkey 11.3% abv
  • Special size taster, no growlers.

More Good news:
Collaboration brewing rocks!  We brewed ‘Collaborator’ Dopplebock with Breakwater Brewing on Saturday and it’s fermenting busily away in Tank #1.  Expected arrival is May/June after lagering is complete on this mega malt bomber.  Clock-in is estimated at around 7.3+% abv.

Less-than-Good news:
As some of you may know, we’re being forced to change our company name by the lawyers at Boston Beer.  They feel the trademark of a brand of beer in their winter seasonal gift box (Old Fezziwig Ale) is being threatened by the existence of a Fezziwigs Brewing Company.  We here personally disagree, but the tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees it would cost to successfully battle out the b/s in court means they win.  Litigious much?
Maybe it’s a sign that you’ve officially ‘made it’ when a multi-billion dollar company threatens to drag you into federal court.

So does this mean we’ll stop brewing more and more of the delicious craft beer you all love?  F*** no!

What it does mean is that we have to spend a bunch of time and money rebranding that we’d have much rather spent making delicious craft beer for you all to enjoy.

It also means time for a kickass ‘Grand Renaming Party’ in May!
So yeah, suck on that one, Boston.

-Fezz

Tasting room’s open this weekend regular hours, rain or shine.  Bring it on Pacific Northwest weather system!

Voyager got brewed up during the storm last night, which is totally appropriate for this bigger hop and maltier take on the English IPA theme.  Did someone say oak?

Marley’s Ghost is wrapping up fermentation, tasting even better than Dark Xmas, and tentatively scheduled for 3/23 if the yeast plays along.

We’re also in the process of installing a nitro tap and are looking forward to pouring a Nitro Umber next weekend.

Prost!

This Saturday (3/2) afternoon we’ve secured the delicious services of Oscar’s Meat Pie Shack to come up and do a food truck day at the tasting room! Hope to see you there ^_^

Just kegged up Annabelle’s Umber Ale – think brown ale meets an amber

Brown meets Amber

Special deal this weekend (Saturday/Sunday):  $2 off take-home logo pint glass when you order it with another purchase!

While supplies last; limit 2.