Once in awhile the world gets blindsided by a wave of hope. The American craft brewing industry has been the catalyst for this most recent hope-wave. Two breweries, Russian River Brewing Company and Avery Brewing, realized that they both had a beer named “Salvation.” Instead of taking this spat to the courtroom, they decided to [...]

My birthday present arrived in the mail today and you will see it on the left. I am officially re-nominating Mary Stuart for “Wife of the Year” (she won it last year) as she actually got me an entire gross of them (that’s the cool way of saying 144…just rolls off the tongue nicely [...]

Last night I returned to my asian upbringings and had a great Japanese beer. It was the Hitachino White Ale, a Belgian white Japanese Ale from Kiuchi Brewery. An ingenious combination!! In all honesty it was fruity but very tasty and I love the label which is totally Japanese (they describe [...]

True, some people like the name “Lumberjack Stout.” No one dislikes it, except Joel who still thinks that the very word “lumberjack” is some sort of overt homosexual reference. Our beef at MNB is this: this oatmeal stout is one of our 3 best beers at this point, along with the Roundhouse Pale Ale and [...]

So I went to the Brick Store twice last week, and something very strange happened to me - I had the same beer twice in a row. That’s saying a lot for a pub that has 8 Belgian beers on draught, over 120 Belgian and Belgian style bottles, and 80 other top-shelf European and [...]

We have recently switched from Blogger to Wordpress (yay Wordpress!), but I’m fairly certain we don’t have all of the bugs worked out yet. So… for the next couple weeks, if anything is broken (and we can’t change Joel’s face; we’ve tried), please shoot us an email or comment to let us know. We’ll try [...]

Yes, I realize that I’m posting during March Madness. Yes, I realize that Tennessee just spanked UVA (suck on that, Joel). But that doesn’t mean that we’re not hard at work.
Thanks to Eli’s suggestion, I’ve been working on another version of the Lumberjack [Oatmeal] Stout label. One that doesn’t involve a falling tree, but instead, [...]