Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday April 10 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm with Nikki.

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm with Nikki.

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Ever since the dawn of pneumatic tires, cyclists have had to deal with the dreaded flat tire! For those of us without a team support car driving around behind us, the unhappy occurrence means it's time to get your hands a little dirty. Finally learn how to change your own flats!

Are you ever worried heading out on a ride on your own that you'll get a flat tire and be stuck in the middle of nowhere? Here's your chance to learn a valuable (and surprisingly easy) skill that might just save you the walk of shame home one day!

Where: Abandoned Building Brewery
142 Pleasant St, Easthampton

Why: During this clinic you will…

-Learn the parts of the wheel
-Learn the most common causes of flats
-Learn how to change a tube ON YOUR OWN!
-Learn how to properly re-install your wheel
-Learn the theory behind tubeless systems

What: You could bring…

-Your wheel (optional, we’ll have extras)
-Your pump (again, optional)

How much: $25

Who: Speed and Sprocket Cycle Works - we've got 30+ years of experience professionally working on bicycles that we are ready to share with YOU!

**Space is limited to 15 participants. Pre-order your ticket through the link above to secure your spot or buy at the door the night-of if room is still available**

**We will touch on and discuss tubeless tires, but will not do any practice with them**

**We reserve the right to cancel the workshop if there are fewer than 4 attendees registered**

Additional questions? Email Sean at Sean@SpeedandSprocket.com

Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday March 27 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

Wednesday, March 26 • Doors open at 6:00pm

Talk begins at ~6:30pm

Abandoned Building Brewery
142 Pleasant Street #103a, Easthampton, MA

An ornithologist walks into a bar...
... only to find that it hasn't yet opened yet, as it's 4:30 AM!

Linking Diet, Song, and Evolution in Tropical Birds

Wednesday, March 26
Doors open @ 6pm, presentation starts at 6:30pm

Abandoned Building Brewery
142 Pleasant Street, #103a, Easthampton, MA

- Why do birds sing?
- How are birds’ songs shaped by their diets?
- What does all this have to do with bird evolution?

Dr. Jeff Podos is a Professor in the Department of Biology at UMass. His research focuses on vocal behavior and evolution in songbirds, and he has active research projects in the US, Ecuador, and Brazil. Click on the “research” tab above to read more about lab activities and interests. Most every fall Jeff teaches an upper-level majors class in Animal Behavior, and in spring semesters he teaches a class on Writing in Biology. For almost two decades he co-taught a non-majors, general education course on the Biology of Social Issues. From 2011-2018, Jeff served as Graduate Program Director and Leader for the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) graduate program. He is presently executive co-editor for Advances in the Study of Behavior, and editor for Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology. Jeff has served twice on the Executive Committee of the Animal Behavior Society, including a stint as society President in 2017-18.

ABB allows guests to bring outside food into the establishment: please feel free to bring food if you’d like to!

This is an inclusive, family-friendly event for people from all walks of life (ALL are very much welcome: kids, college students, your parents!). We promise, you'll learn something if you come. And hey, you might even win a prize! Remember... Admission is FREE!
Visit scitechcafe.org for all the info.

Bring a friend and join us as we enjoy lively conversations, prizes, and brilliant minds. Light refreshments will be available outside the presentation room, first come, first served. This is an inclusive, family-friendly event for people from all walks of life (ALL are very much welcome: kids, college students, your parents!). We promise, you’ll learn something if you come. And hey, you might even win a prize! Remember… Admission is FREE!

SciTech Cafe events are open to any one with a curious mind regardless of age and background.  Our events, prizes, and snacks are free, but donations are appreciated.

This event is hosted at Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton, MA.

SciTech Café is sponsored by:

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Come enjoy live music and cold beer with Masala Jazz! Leashed dogs welcome.

Each of the three musicians in Masala Jazz, a Leverett-based jazz group, have a unique musical approach to their fusion of contemporary jazz, funk, blues, rock, country, tango, and beyond. Members include: SiriNam Khalsa on guitar, Noah Altman on bass, and Michel Moushabeck on drums.

Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday March 20 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm with Nikki.

Come enjoy live music and cold beer with Matt Hebert & Friends on March 15 from 6-9pm in the taproom.

Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday March 13 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

RESCHEDLED FROM WINTERFEST

Who's got the best bingo around!

We do ! Why?
Because we have an awesome collaborator Abandoned Building Brewery and Molly Kheen Bingo Queen

Thursday March 6, 6 - 8pm 4 card limit. Suggested donation - $3 a card, or 4 cards for $10 cash or venmo
10 games

We have gift certificate giveaways for each game!
@ABB you can always bring your own snacks and food.

Come join us, have fun and help us raise money for the support of the $9,600 shoreline stabilization study for area 3 of Nashawannuck Pond.

Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday February 27 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

Wednesday, February 26 • Doors open at 6:00pm

Talk begins at ~6:30pm

Abandoned Building Brewery
142 Pleasant Street #103a, Easthampton, MA

Wired to Want: How the Brain Drives Reward and Motivation

• What is dopamine and what role does it play in reward and motivation?

• How do psychoactive drugs affect reward processing in the brain?

• Is addiction a brain disease?

Dr. Shivon Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Williams College. She received her bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Psychology from Williams College in 2011. She completed her graduate work in the lab of Irwin Lucki at the University of Pennsylvania and earned her doctorate in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Subsequently, she completed an NIH-sponsored Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Julie Blendy, which combined a traditional mentored research experience with extensive training in college-level teaching. Her research interests include microdialysis, nucleus accumbens, behavioral neuroscience, behavioral testing, behavioral pharmacology, neuropharmacology, behavioral analysis, rodent stereotaxic surgery, behavioral experiments, and novel object recognition.

Bring a friend and join us as we enjoy lively conversations, prizes, and brilliant minds. Light refreshments will be available outside the presentation room, first come, first served. This is an inclusive, family-friendly event for people from all walks of life (ALL are very much welcome: kids, college students, your parents!). We promise, you’ll learn something if you come. And hey, you might even win a prize! Remember… Admission is FREE!

ABB allows guests to bring outside food! Please feel free to brings your own snacks with you, too.

SciTech Cafe events are open to any one with a curious mind regardless of age and background.  Our events, prizes, and snacks are free, but donations are appreciated.

This event is hosted at Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton, MA.

SciTech Café is sponsored by:

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Hot cheese, cold beer, and good vibes…what more do you need?

We’re super excited for this collab with Abandoned Building Brewery. We’re serving up hot, meaty, gooey Raclette. We’ll have some other fun snacks to munch on too while you sip on your brew.

Sunday 2/23 starting at 1pm until 6pm or whenever we run out of cheese!

Come hang, eat, and sip with us!

Come enjoy live music and cold beer with Masala Jazz! Leashed dogs welcome.

Each of the three musicians in Masala Jazz, a Leverett-based jazz group, have a unique musical approach to their fusion of contemporary jazz, funk, blues, rock, country, tango, and beyond. Members include: SiriNam Khalsa on guitar, Noah Altman on bass, and Michel Moushabeck on drums.

Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday February 20 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday February 6 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday January 30 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

Wednesday, January 29 • Doors open at 6:00pm

Talk begins at ~6:30pm

Abandoned Building Brewery
142 Pleasant Street #103a, Easthampton, MA

The Algorithmics of Fair Resource Allocation

• What is envy-freeness?

• When is a market fair?

• What do we do when we can’t use money in a market?

• What do washing the dishes, public housing, and choosing classes in college have in common? 

• What’s the best way to cut a birthday cake?

Yair Zick is an Assistant professor at the College of Information Systems and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor at the NUS School of Computing. He obtained his PhD (mathematics) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2014, and a B.Sc (mathematics, “Amirim” honors program) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include computational fair division, computational social choice, algorithmic game theory and algorithmic transparency. He is the recipient of the 2011 AAMAS Best Student Paper award, the 2014 Victor Lesser IFAAMAS Distinguished Dissertation award, the 2016 ACM EC Best Paper award, and the 2017 Singapore NRF Fellowship. He is mainly interested in game theory, fair division, strategic collaborative behavior, and their applications in various domains. Professor Zick is also interested in algorithmic transparency, and ethics in AI/ML.

Bring a friend and join us as we enjoy lively conversations, prizes, and brilliant minds. Light refreshments will be available outside the presentation room, first come, first served. This is an inclusive, family-friendly event for people from all walks of life (ALL are very much welcome: kids, college students, your parents!). We promise, you’ll learn something if you come. And hey, you might even win a prize! Remember… Admission is FREE!

ABB allows guests to bring outside food! Please feel free to brings your own snacks with you, too.

SciTech Cafe events are open to any one with a curious mind regardless of age and background.  Our events, prizes, and snacks are free, but donations are appreciated. 

This event is hosted at Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton, MA.

SciTech Café is sponsored by:

Posted in Geology, Geoscience Tagged amherst college, amherst ma, antarctica, Geology, Geoscience, northampton ma, sci-tech, Science, Science Cafe, SciTech, SciTech Cafe

Come enjoy live music and cold beer with Masala Jazz! Leashed dogs welcome.

Come enjoy live music and cold beer with Matt Hebert & Friends on January 18 from 6-9pm in the taproom.

Come enjoy the taproom and some cold beer with Ch’CHUNK, it’s swing night!

Learn to swing dance from 5:30-6:30 for a crash course in swing dance moves.

Dance to the live band Ch’CHUNK from 6:30-9:30.

ch'CHUNK! is a band located in Western Massachusetts that is a modern take on classic swing. They perform classics as well as originals. The name ch'CHUNK! was derived from the sound and type of strumming associated with various types of swing music. They are happy to have found that their shows are enjoyed by an audience of many generations. 

Band members are Jack Dwyer on guitar and vocals, Ian Hamel on tenor guitar and vocals, Hannah Elliot on clarinet and vocals, Karim Sumun on bass guitar, Chris Trevethan on drums and washboard, and Jim Rutter on tenor banjo and mandolin.

Facebook Event Page Here

Riff’s Joint Food Truck will be setting up outside the tap room on Thursday January 9 from 4-8pm. Come grab your favorite burger and enjoy a fresh beer in our tap room.

Come enjoy live music and cold beer with Masala Jazz! Leashed dogs welcome.

Come enjoy live music and cold beer with Matt Hebert & Friends!

Free adult yoga class from 6-7pm with Brian Mulligan. Brian stresses a gentle approach to yoga with emphasis on proper alignment, safety and well-balanced classes. Drop-in and bring your own yoga mat. Brian is a certified 200 hour yoga instructor who studied under Kim Valerie’s Iyengar based Yoga Spirits out of Beverly, MA. He’s also certified to teach chair yoga, having studied under Lakshmi Voelker’s Get Fit Where You Sit program. Lakshmi has trained over 1600 Chair yoga instructors and trains out of Kripalu.

Our Second Annual Holiday Makers Market is on Sunday, December 15 from 11am - 4pm at our tap room.

24 Vendors will be on display for you to get those last minute holiday gifts.

Thai Chili Food Truck and Vegan Pizza Land Coffee Counter will be available for food and treats.

Enjoy a beer from us while you shop and snack!