A Quite Nice Weiss
I’m not sure if it’s bad luck to prematurely say that a beer is a success but I must say I think our WeissGuy is gonna be a winner. On Monday a few of us took swigs of the uncarbonated, warm, weiss guy and it was actually good. The last time I tasted one of our uncarbonated beers was our pumpkin brew and I almost threw up. That one turned out to be a true winner (Bob even said it might win a ribbon in a competition) so I’m thinking this one has a good shot of being quite nice. I’m already lobbying for this to become an MNB standard and I’d like to hear from all you Hefeweizen fans out there to keep it in the line. Yeah, some may say that wheat beers are for wusses (Jonathan thinks we should brew a kiwi strawberry wine cooler) but I think just because it’s slightly sweeter and comes from wheat there is no need to discriminate. BTW there is a cool pizza place called Blue Moon that has a drink where they mix Blue Moon and Guiness…had it once and was a very interesting combo. I plan to do the same with our WeissGuy/Breakfast Stout….it’s sort of like if you combined Oatmeal and Cream of Wheat (two of my least favorite breakfasts growing up). I’ll let you know how it turns out…could be a whole new realm for MNB.
Jonathan, Joel & Jeff
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:29 am
that’s some good looking beer!
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
where do you get you labels - or how do you make them?
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:38 am
Well anonymous,
We buy glossy round stickers from a sticker supplier online and then print them on a color laser printer. Fairly primitive, but it works for us at this stage in the game.
BTW, I’m not saying we HAVE to make a strawberry kiwi cooler. We could just add some strawberry flava to our hefeweizen. I’d be cool with that.
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:49 am
I was going to ask the same question about the labels.
The design work, brand consistency and on-bottle impression are all top-notch!
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:07 am
I’m tired of all this wheat beer bashing. Baker, I think this quote from Zoolander would enlighten everyone else as to your animosity.
So I’m repelling down Mount Vesuvius when suddenly I slip, and I start to fall. Just falling, ahh ahh, I’ll never forget the terror. When suddenly I realize “Holy!@$^, Hansel, haven’t you been smoking Peyote for six straight days, and couldn’t some of this maybe be in your head?”
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Thanks Eli! We’re doing all we can to hasten our journey into microbrewery-hood.