If it’s the last Thursday of the month, you’ll find our romance book discussion group in the tasting room chatting away about books!
Each month our group decides on a romance trope topic. Then everyone reads a book or series featuring that trope. We meet the last Thursday, with a beverage in hand to share our books & thoughts.
“Big Beers, Bangin’ Books” is the brain child of Giant Jones owner Erika Jones & her librarian friend Amy. They lead the discussion every month. This book group is open to anyone who loves reading romance.
May’s trope is Sports Romance – The game of falling in love…
Reading Suggestions:
- Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh (rugby)
- Diamond Ring by KD Casey (baseball)
- Futbolista by Johnny Garza Villa (soccer)
- Gold by EJ Noyes (downhill skiing)
- Love and Other Scores by Abra Pressler (tennis)
- Love and Sportsball by Meka James (basketball)
- Off the Mark by Kathryn Nolan (dirt bike racing)
- Only on Gameday by Kristen Calihan (football)
- Playing with Seduction by Reese Ryan (beach volleyball)
- Roller Girl by Vanessa North (roller derby)
- Season’s Change by Cait Nary (ice hockey)
- Throwing Stones by Avery Cockburn (curling)
Now that our Wednesday Pizza Nights are back, we’re very excited for summer! So to kick off the first of many delicious summer pizza nights, we’re having a party. Join us & our friends at ORIGIN Breads as we celebrate the return of SUMMER pizza nights!
ORIGIN Breads will be making the pizzas, including a weekly seasonal pizza with the freshest ingredients. A seasonal salad will also be available as well as their tasty baked goods. And we will still be celebrating our 8th Anniversary release beer, a Giant Jones Malt Liquor!
Doors open at 4pm; pizzas start at 5pm. And weather permitting, we’ll have limited outdoor seating in our beer garden!
From Nano to Nature: Heat Flow & the Future of Food
From the strange behavior of heat and light at tiny scales to the food on our plates, science reveals how small processes shape the world around us. Discover how heat can travel in unexpected ways when objects get extremely small, and how local foods connect chemistry, nutrition, and sustainability to support both human and planetary health.
Heat, light, and the limits of shadow puppetry
Dakotah Thompson (Assistant professor, University of Wisonsin-Madison)
Heat is like water, it flows. Thermodynamics says that heat flows from hot to cold. With a skinny pipe, the flow becomes a trickle. But what is the pipe in this analogy? The pipe is what carries the heat. Sometimes, heat is carried by light. We call this thermal radiation. If we picture light as a ray that travels in straight lines, our pipe is like the bundle of rays carving a path between the objects exchanging heat. Shrink the objects, shrink the heat flow between them. BUT. Light is not a ray, it’s a wave. When the objects exchanging heat get really really small, weird things can happen…
The science of local foods for planetary health
Brad Bolling (Professor, University of Wisonsin-Madison)
Food impacts human, animal, and environmental health. We will take a tour of the interesting chemistry, nutrition, and health of local foods in our region. We will learn how a sustainable and equitable food system is an important dimension of planetary health.
Doors 6:30 pm
Event 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Tickets are $2; reserve your spot now at the link below!
