Twas the Night Before Turkmas

Wednesday, November 27th

Some call it Friends-giving, others get right to the point and call it Drinks-giving. We’re weird so we call it “The Night Before Turkmas!” We’ll have discounts on 4-packs so you can stock up for Thanksgiving, along with festive Cocktails. And it has become a bit of a tradition around here to tap some special small batch beers!

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» Special Beer Tapping

» Festive Cocktails!

Maybe I was too young to realize it was a thing, maybe it didn’t used to be a thing. As far as I knew, everyone simply slogged through their awkward Thanksgiving family dinner, smiling politely, offering to do dishes just to get away from crazy Uncle Joe, urgently changing the topic whenever Aunt Claire brought up politics or Cecilia started proselytizing. Faking a nap. Whatever it took.

Once the food coma subsides and order is restored to the kitchen - or you just get sick of looking at that pile of dishes in the sink - you go get a drink and compare crazy family stories with your friends. But then someone got the idea, hey – why don’t we simply GATHER WITH PEOPLE WE ACTUALLY LIKE before all that drama! And Friendsgiving was born!

Here’s the thing though. The name doesn’t make sense. You are not replacing the Thanks with Friends. If anything, Thanks-friend-ing…erm…Thanks-friend-sing? No too many syllables. From the start, we just decided to put the patented Luppoleto weirdness stamp on it and call it, “The Night Before Turkmas” cuz it made Jen laugh when I said it. Ok maybe she didn’t laugh but she smirked. And that was good enough for me.

Special Beer Release

Crandunkelweizen - A Side-Project from our Hazelwood Dunkelweizen aged on cranberries

Plus maybe one or two other surpises…

Festive Turkmas Cocktails

Luppoleto ELITE Bocce Players already know, but for the rest of you, Wednesdays are cocktail night. We whip up some specialty drinks featuring fresh ingredients and Spirts from Connecticut Distilleries. This week’s menu is super-sized to accommodate some extra festive imbibements.

Cranberry Marg

Agave Spirit / Cranberries / Lime / Agave Syrup / Salt / Orange Bitters

PSL-Tini

Coffee Infused Rum / House Pumpkin Syrup / Cream (optional)

Rhubarb Gin Fizz

Gin / Rhubarb / Rhubarb Syrup / Nutmeg / Anise / Cardamom Bitters / San Pelligrino

Italian Hard Soda

Vodka / Aranciata / Orange Sours / Angostura Bitters

Turkmas Dinner

Cranberry Marg with a Bouillon Cube

Really James, Is a Margarita really festive? Well, you saw there was cranberry in there right? That’s like a Thanksgiving STAPLE! I mean maybe, if you ask nicely, we’ll spruce it up with some edible glitter (if you’re into that kind of thing).

Either way, come enjoy the night before Turkmas with us! And no, the Turkmas Dinner is not a real drink. Jen wouldn’t let me do it. But thanks for reading ‘til the end and a tip of the anglers cap to HIMYM for the silly Bouillon drink idea.