Halloweekend 2010 @ Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro

Saturday, October 30 and Sunday, October 31,  Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro invites you to don your costumes and come on down to the taproom to celebrate Halloweekend 2010: two nights of thrills, chills and excellent local live music!

Halloweekend 2010 kicks off Saturday, October 30th with live music by up and coming Bellingham rockers They Hibernate (who will celebrating the release of their debut ep), Misfits tribute band Horror Business, the folk punk sounds of Baltic Cousins (featuring members of Black Eyes and Neckties and the Russians), and the always entertainingly manic No-Fi Soul Rebellion.  The music starts at 10pm and there is a $6 cover.

Halloweekend 2010 continues on Sunday, October 31 with an evening of the music of David Bowie performed by Bellingham’s best Bowie tribute band, Scary Monster and the Super Creeps!  Music starts at 9:30pm and there is a $4 cover.  Costumes are encouraged and welcomed whether you will be attending one or both nights of the celebration.

A Week of Spooktacular Fun at Boundary Bay

Here at Boundary Bay Brewery, we really don’t need much of a reason to celebrate.  We love doin’ it up right!  And that applies to Halloween too!  We’ve got lots of ways to celebrate…

On Friday, On Friday Oct. 30th (from 5:30-10pm) you can kick off the festivities a little early and get your spook on in our Haunted Beer Garden put on by the Bellingham Roller Betties.  Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for kids under 12 with all the proceeds from the ticket sales going to the Roller Betties and all their roller derby madness!

From 2-5pm, on Halloween (Saturday, Oct. 31st) you can bring the little ones into downtown Bellingham where you can trick or treat at various downtown businesses…including Boundary Bay Brewery.  You can get maps of participating businesses throughout the Central Business District or by contacting the Downtown Bellingham Partnership.

And last, but certainly not least, you can join us for one heck of a party on Halloween night!  Sugar Sugar Sugar, Lozen, Dog Shredder and the Pasties are going to be rockin’ the brewery and costumes are most definitely encouraged! The show starts at 10pm and it’ll cost you just $6 to get in.  But beware, our brewery is popular on night like this, so you might want to come early and have a couple pints while you wait for the show to start!

But, best of all, our kitchen has whipped up an incredible array of spooktacular desserts that are available all week (starting today!).

Cauldron of Bones: a ghoulishly delicious chocolate cauldron filled with a ghostly white chocolate mousse covered by a bloody strawberry goo and topped with skeletal remains. $5

Caramel Apple Float: a caramel rimmed pint glass filled with sparkling apple cider with a float of house-made caramel ice cream…like a liquid caramel apple!  $5  p.s. (adults can enjoy this sweet treat with just a little more bite – try it with a spire hard cider. add $3)

Monster Mousse: don’t be afraid if you find your dessert looking back at you since this devilishly decadent chocolate mousse has eyes plucked from the sweetest monsters we could find. $6

Butternut Squash Créme Brulee: an award winning dessert created right here in Boundary’s kitchen!  The sweetness of butternut squash marries with the classic creme brulee to make a special Harvest time dessert that won the People’s Choice Award (for dessert!) in the Bellingham Farmers Market Squash Smackdown.  $6  (click here for the recipe!)

Halloween at Boundary Bay Brewery

Trick or Treat in Downtown Bellingham this Friday! Our doors will be open to little trick or treaters from 3-5 pm as part of the Downtown Renaissance Network event.  Bring your kids to Downtown Bellingham and visit local merchants who will be ready with treats (and maybe a trick or two!).

But what about the rest of us who are looking for a slightly more lively Halloween activities?

Lets admit it, at it’s most basic incarnation, Halloween is a holiday for kids.  Dressing up, heading door to door to sweetly beg for treats, making yourself sick on excess amounts of chocolate shaped like eyeballs.  So, what do you do when you are no longer a kid and you don’t have children of your own to re-live the old traditions with?

You come to Boundary Bay!!

Here, you can dress in your wackiest, your craziest, your funniest, your most risque.  You can show up with vampire teeth and a rainbow wig.  You can sweetly beg the bartender for just one more of your favorite Boundary Bay brew.  You can shake your thang while Black Eyes and Neckties tear up the stage with Jill Brazil and Axes of Evil.  You can even get the pants scared off you on our deck which we’ve let the Bellingham Roller Betties turn into their own Haunted Lounge!  Come celebrate Halloween at Boundary.  Feel like a kid again in the best kind of way…the way that simultaneously lets you appreciate the joys of being adult…namely, that nice cold IPA (or whatever your beer of choice is) sweating in your hand just waiting to be consumed with abandon.  Doors will open at 10 pm and a mere $6 will get you in!

Halloween help from Boundary Bay Brewery

Chances are if you haven’t yet picked up a pumpkin by now, how to celebrate Halloween is something that hasn’t even begun to be considered to enter your already maxed out mind. So let Boundary Bay Brewery make it easy for you.

Costume

The ghost costume is a classic. According to eHow.com, it can be made in eight easy steps:

Step One Get your hands on a white sheet that you don’t mind cutting. Check thrift stores for an old sheet, but remember to wash it before you use it.

Step Two: Put the sheet over the person who plans to wear it, with the person’s head in the middle of the sheet.

Step Three: Draw two circles around each of the person’s eyes with a crayon or other blunt marker.

Step Four: Mark how much material has to be removed to keep the sheet off the ground.

Step Five: Remove the sheet.

Step Six: Cut the eyeholes in the sheet using cloth scissors, and cut the bottom off if needed.

Step Seven: Cut the sheet in a ragged fashion at the bottom for a more ghostly effect.

Step Eight: Brush glue on the hem and around the eyeholes to prevent fraying.

Party

Choosing the right Halloween party or celebration to attend can really make or break the holiday. Private parties are alright, but the risk of personal injury,or (even worse) boredom is far too great on such a short notice. We recommend you come celebrate with us at Boundary Bay Brewery this Halloween. There will be plenty of delicious beer, hot food and snacks, and two stages hosting 4 bands! And the lineup of bands this year is top notch. Just check the Schedule out:

 

9 pm on the tap room stage: A Gun That Shoots Knives

10 pm on the beer garden stage: Guinness and the Reparations

11 pm on the tap room stage: No-Fi Soul Rebellion

Midnight on the beer garden stage: Yogoman Burning Band

 

Still not convinced? Have a listen to our Halloween music preview podcast:

There! We have done all the work for you. See you on Halloween here @ Boundary Bay Brewery!