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Archive for April, 2007

Cat fight!

Friday, April 20th, 2007

When four men enter into a business agreement, there is bound to be conflict. We at Monday Night Brewery have just emerged from the first of what I’m sure will be many spats. I won.
The brawl was essentially about our current focus, and whether or not we should be shifting even more resources towards brewing [...]

Beer Casserole: What happens when you brew with whatever’s lying around

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Casserole is to food as Monday’s ale is to beer. And that’s not necessarily bad. Some casseroles are quite scrumptious.
Essentially, after bottling 150 beers on Saturday, we realized that we had not performed our usual “beer ingredients run” to buy grain, hops, yeast, etc. for next week’s brew. We also realized that we desperately needed [...]

Oh the perils of beer reviews

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

I’ve recently discovered that there are many different beer brands in the world. Even a few that I have yet to taste. One such anamoly is Abita. I’ve heard some decent things about them and see them around the local Package Store (for those not familiar with the lingo, a package store is a liquor [...]

We admit it. Pucker Punch was a lame name for a beer.

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

I take full responsibility, seeing as it was actually my idea. I think we liked it at the time… but we were also probably a little buzzed and easily excitable. So we’ve got a new name for our cranberry ale (and it is NOT Manberry Ale, though that was my ultimate vote). Introducing: Sweet & [...]

MNB flexes its bottling muscles

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Yes, as many of you know, we’ve been in a slump lately. A wild-yeast-induced slump. Unfortunately we didn’t realize this until the first batch became drinkable (or explodable). Since we brew every week, that means there were three other batches brewed using the same processes and scratched up plastic buckets. That means four total botched [...]

Cow Tipper Cream Ale: the wait is over

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

We’ve finally reached some consensus on a name/label for our cream ale. A very special thanks goes out to Dave for developing the name and concept. The only negative feedback we’ve received thus far has been from Andy, who can’t get it out of his head that this is not what cows looked like when [...]

Free Monday Night Brewery pint glasses!

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Seeing as Joel is now the proud father of a plethora of MNB pint glasses, we thought it about time to start giving some of these bad boys away. Every month, starting in the beginning of May, we will be giving two pint glasses away to someone on our mailing list. So for those of [...]