We're creeping closer and closer to the big day--just a week out! Soon enough, the veil will thin and kids dressed up as nightmares will prowl the streets seeking candy. The good news is that we're not there. Yet. We still have some time to prep.

So, prep we shall! This evening's a chance to steel our nerves before All Hallows' Eve. I'm doing that with a special beer from Timber Ales: Fields of Fall, the strongest beer of the season. Take a moment to grab a break from carving pumpkins and hanging artificial spiderwebs to enjoy this peaceful moment with me before we're flung into the spookiest day of the year.

Back to the blog and rolling along with bock season! Thank you so much for bearing with me while I took February off; between our baby, Michelle working hard on a new project, and a new job I'm still settling into, it's getting tough to find space to write about beer. Taking February was the right call for me. 

Today, we're hitting the ground running on this cold yet still spring-like late-winter day with a beer that perfectly encapsulates the changing seasons, a style I eagerly anticipate the whole winter long. That's right; we're doing a bock.

I'll say here that I only have two bocks slated for review this month. A stroll through the shelves at my local bottle shop this afternoon showed that breweries are more focused on fad-like brews (which isn't a dig--I love fad beers!) than sticking with this tried and true seasonal. Luckily, one of the breweries adhering to this malty tradition is MadTree, who canned Guten Bock this year. Let's get to it.