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If it's gonna be dark at 5:00 I'm gonna need more stouts.

Oh. My. God.  I hate this time of year.  Set the clocks back an hour and I'm off schedule for two weeks.  I don't sleep right, day is night, up is down.  What is even happening here?

Fortunately last weekend was nice so we hit some patios, drank some good beers, ate some oysters, and visited our local barcade.  Good times that we'll take advantage of while we can.

The brewery closures keep coming.  The Brewers Association says craft beer is now a "mature market," listen in for more on that.  We saw Hippin' Hops close a location here in Atlanta, big news out of Austin as Oskar Blue's shutters, and after we went to press news came out that Ecliptic Brewing has been sold and while the brand will live on, the pub and restaurant will close.  We'll see more of that, no doubt.

As it is the season and we are all for playing along, we discuss pumpkin beers this week.  I even drink one.  Madness.  Pumpkin beers aren't my thing but NoDa was nice enough to share some of their medal-winning Gordgeous so I gave it a shot.  It's pretty good, opens up at cellar temps IMO.  I may not go for pumpkin beer often but we've all got opinions on what we want IF we do happen to have one.

While beer fests are down in popularity the Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beer (FoBAB) in Chicago is still a hot one.  We talk about the winners this year and get excited to see a Brett beer get some love again.

In other stories can sales are down, could this mean the end of the shortage?  Brian, for some reason, shares a story about alcohol and sexual assault in Antarctica.  Seriously, I don't even know why this was included.  But here we are.

The Beer List

• Trillium - Deciduous (Hoppy Pale Rice Lager)
• Fast Fashion / HW Crooks - Catch of the Day (Fresh Hop NE IPA)
• Iron Hill - Spruce Moose IPA 
• Homebrew - Tiny Trout (Pilsner)
• Green Man - ESB
• Wild Leap - Alpha Abstraction vol. 25 (DIPA)
• NoDa Gordgeous (Pumpkin Ale)
• Anchor Steam

Sources

• https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/beer-cans-maker-ball-misses-quarterly-sales-estimates-slowing-demand-2023-11-02/

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