Hoppy Halloween! Sudsy Samhain! Festive Fall! Merry Malting!

Losing leaves are the nakeding trees. Seasonal yeastwork. Plants’ vascular adapting and converting like sugars during fermentation. Fractal trees and complex flavors. Beer and rain begin to simultaneously increase on the gravities in which they pour. Boos and brews and cloud formations sometimes replaced by just one giant cloud. Dark mornings, darker nights increase. It can be harder to get warmed. But it is welcoming to be near a heat source. Perhaps soon looking forth to the next solstice bringing light back. Spicy seasonals, Oktoberfests, gourd brews, other fruit beers, doppels, dunkels, hearty browns, ambers, and even barleywines. Beware of ghouls and stale piwo. The light will return just as the longer warmer days, but now is the entrance to darker, bolder, and more assertive times. Enjoy the long spells of grey, contracted daylight hours, and even snowfall could conjur the need for items something spicy and robust. Enjoy the life of colorfully distinct seasons in Beervana. The changes we certainly welcomed and find necessary and most importantly, an undeniable excuse to brew, drink, and demand different kinds of beer.

The full moon is rising over Good Commons for a getaway filled with devilish deliciousness. This unique retreat center and vacation home in Plymouth, Vermont is offering a Halloween-inspired Boo & Brew Getaway Oct. 29 – Nov. 1. An easy jaunt from anywhere in the Northeast, you can join other beer enthusiasts for a chill weekend that includes brewing your own beer, a free-flowing keg from nearby Long Trail Brewing Company, sunset hayride, a private chef for the weekend including a Day of the Dead Feast and an exclusive in-house ceremony with a full trance medium — that’s right — they’re going be talking to dead people! And the hosts at Good Commons are so jazzed about this weekend that they’re offering this special contest for Brewpublic readers:

Be the lucky 13^th person to answer the following question …

What is the name of the full trance medium who will be channeling the afterlife in a special in-house ceremony?

Email your answer to: info@goodcommons.com

The 13^th entry will be our lucky winner* and can join this retreat FOR FREE!

Check out more about the amenities at Good Commons at www.goodcommons.com.

*One entry per email address. Cannot be combined with other offers. Valid only for Boo & Brew weekend. Value $550.

Lots of stuff going on in Portland this time of year, as you can see on our calendar. Here’s a look at some of the best events for beer geeks in Beervana…

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