More fab art from the IQ

Dig this poster that our IQ (Illustration Queen) Tina Kugler did for an upcoming Lillie Lemon gig. The Lemon show is in October but this is too fun to not share now. Do you recall Tina's other cool gig poster she did for Stumpjack last year for the Them Damn Kids show?:Or this one she did for the snorb! gig in February of this year:Check out Tina's other fab art and illustration prowess on her blog TinaKuglerIllustration. If you're looking for someone to do some cool art for a CD or DVD cover, family portrait, book cover, wedding invitation art, children's book illustration, highway billboard design, tattoo design, candy bar wrapper, whatever-you-name-it...this dame is the one you want to do it for you. I've got plans to do a couple of children's book projects using Tina's talents. And her hubby Carson is the man for much the same sort of thing. We have designs on brewing beer on a small commercial scale in the near future and I'm thinking that Carson might be the man for doing our labels and promo stuff (I say might be because I haven't actually brought it up to him yet).

Cool Jazz Trio to play the Stump TONIGHT

We are more than pleased and excited to have Saxi Dan's Peas-a-Pye Trio performing at Stumpjack tonight. It's a bohemian rhapsody kind of night. Come on down and mellow out to some good jazz and a Fat Tire Ale.
Saxophone: Dan Schielke
Guitar: Craig Peaslee
Drums/Percussion: Eric Pye
From Craig's Myspace:
Composer/Arranger/Guitarist Craig Peaslee has been impressing audiences for years with his compositions and guitar prowess. Craig's compositions reflect his interest in all genres of music: from Middle Eastern Folk to American Blues; Western Orchestral to traditional Chinese music, Jazz, Rock, Country and combinations of all the aforementioned musical styles. Musicians have enjoyed performing Craig's works to the extent performers have declared that they would "Perform Craig's music at anytime." As a guitarist, Peaslee is primarily a solo performer, playing originals as well as his takes on pieces from nearly every genre from Bach to rock; including his arrangements for double neck guitar of such famous and popular tunes as: Bohemian Rhapsody, The Pink Panther and If I Only Had A Brain. Listen to Craig at www.myspace.com/threeneckbeast

Then, Saturday night at 8...Z-Man brings the Scat Acoustic Funk.

Z-Man (Zach Cleven) hails from Green Bay and this will be his first gig at the Stump. From Z's myspace: My musical journey began in 2008 when I was experimenting with the acoustic guitar and finding my meaning of life. The first song I learned was Bob Marley's "Redemption song" and it took off. I decided my musician name of Z-MAN with my real name being Zach Cleven it fits well. My music has grown to become a huge part of my life as I continue to become stronger as I mature as a songwriter. As I evolved on the guitar I began to develop my own style that many describe as ONE OF A KIND. The Z-MAN wouldn't be where he is, if it wasn't for his friends & family supporting the good vibes of his music and keepin' the spirit ALIVE. He brings a unique twist of skat acoustic funk to the world and isn't lookin' back.

T-shirt colors; Closing shop early this weekend.

Here's a nice image with the colors of the tees that Nuclear Dave brought in yesterday. Colors might look a tad different on your screen compared to reality, but you get the idea.

Stumpjack will be closing early today and tomorrow (Saturday), at around 3:00. It's class reunion weekend. Somehow they wrangled me onto the reunion committee for this one (I can confidently declare that I fulfilled my role as the "dead weight" of the committee quite admirably).

So, again, Stumpjack will be closed at around 3:00 today and tomorrow.

New Stumpjack T-shirts

The beautiful and charming Samantha modeling the absurdly named heliconia pink.

We just received a special delivery of Stumpjack tee-shirts this morning courtesy Nuclear Dave Theiss. Sizes m, lg & xl and colors kiwi green, honey, cherry red, texas orange, heliconia pink, and my favorite, prairie dust. A small version of the Stumpjack logo is also on the back under the collar, which I think is pretty cool too.

Sam in kiwi green.

New Belgium Brewery meets Stumpjack Gelato

Just made a batch of New Belgium 1554 Enlightened Black Ale and Vanilla Gelato. New Belgium Brewing is the Colorado brewery, Fat Tire is the name of their flagship, and they have recently opened distribution into Wisconsin. Everyone around here thinks the name of the brewery is Fat Tire, so maybe we should just call tit Fat Tire Gelato, but we'll stay true to the brew and call it 1554 Enlightened Black Ale & Vanilla gelato. I like that you need to be 21 or older and show an ID to get some. And we do, of course, have 1554 and Fat Tire on hand in bottles as well.

Here's the script on the 1554 Black Ale from the New Belgium website:
Born of a flood and centuries-old Belgian text, 1554 Enlightened Black Ale uses a light lager yeast strain and dark chocolaty malts to redefine what dark beer can be. In 1997, a Fort Collins flood destroyed the original recipe our researcher, Phil Benstein, found in the library. So Phil and brewmaster, Peter Bouckaert, traveled to Belgium to retrieve this unique style lost to the ages. Their first challenge was deciphering antiquated script and outdated units of measurement, but trial and error (and many months of in-house sampling) culminated in 1554, a highly quaffable dark beer with a moderate body and mouthfeel.