Tonight: NOT A DARN THING!

Just received a comment on the blog asking about tonight's event. There is no event going on at the Stump tonight, folks. It's the first weekend in a long time that we have no live music on tap. John and Jeremy of NineDays were scheduled to perform but we have to reschedule that one. Didn't do a fill-in gig for tonight because if it ain't gonna be John and Jeremy it ain't gonna to be anyone! Seriously, we just decided to enjoy a quiet evening...closing early tonight (sometime between 4:00 and 5:00) to enjoy what's left of my birthday.

Becky Markvart and Bill Martell (Six Degrees) will be performing at Courthouse Pub tonight around 10:00 I think. We're probably going to head over there to relax and have folks wait on us for a change.

Cheers!

Beers in the house

Marty with a Fiddler's Elbow from the Wychwood Brewery

We've been asked a few times why we don't regularly provide a beer list of the brews we have in the cooler. The main reason is because we rarely keep the same beers in stock. We mix it up pretty regularly, bringing new beers in and not reordering others. There's really no method to the madness, and we do it this way for no other reason than because we enjoy trying new beers (and there's only so much room in the case). One thing you can usually be sure of, you'll find a fairly eclectic mix of beer when you visit...and most of them will be brands that you won't normally find in most other pubs or coffee shops.

There are, however, a few that I make a point of trying to keep in stock, just because they are on my favorites list so consistently (and I'm being entirely selfish here, because if I personally don't like the beer it won't be back).

Having just said all that, I did take a little time yesterday to put together a list for the beers we had delivered to the shop this week. Here's part of what's in the case at the moment (images only, not adding the text for each beer):

Thursday Night's Tasting: Beer & Sausage

You need to let us know (call or email) ahead of time if you want to join the fun.

Beer and Sausage Tasting

(several craft beers matched with
salami, sausage, cured meat)
Thursday, Nov. 13th
6:30pm-8:00pm
Members: $15.00
Nonmembers: $20.00
Please call 553-5282 to register or email stumpjack@gmail.com

Dangit! Lost in computer wasteland.

As I write this I'm uploading the last of the videos onto YouTube of JoAnn, Jeannie and Chelsea from Saturday night's performance. Those gals are just the bee's knees! Really strong songwriters and very raw and elemental in their performances. When they perform it's about as close as you can get to the feeling of hanging out at a home party or around a campfire, drinking beer, your pals bringing out their guitars and everyone just having a great time...it's loose and relaxed, a good deal of fun chitchat and laughs, and some truly awesome music.

JoAnn Riedl

YouTube sucks for image quality in the transfer (everything seems to blur a bit), but the sound is pretty good. I'm using a Flip Video camera for everything, a great little gizmo I got from our friend Rob who's down in Texas. The image quality and sound coming off the Flip is excellent; it's on the YouTube end that the image gets fuzzy.

Jeannie Mayotte

I also had some great video of Matt Davies from Friday night and of Greg Pagel from Saturday's noon show. But something happened as I was uploading...everything froze up on the computer for several minutes and when it finally kicked in again all of my videos had been erased. All of them, not just the ones of Matt and Greg, but all of them. Fortunately, the ones of JoAnn, Jeannie and Chelsea were on the camera yet, and not in the Flip files like the others. I'm bummed but what can you do.

Chelsea Z.

Today and Tonight

Saturday, Nov. 8
Live music with Greg Pagel - keyboard and accordion demon.
12:00 noon
Saturday, Nov. 8
Live Music with JoAnn Riedl, Jeannie Mayotte and Chelsea Z. - a trio of rockin' Milwaukee artists.
8:00pm