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Archive for April, 2007

MNB and RSS are BFF

Friday, April 13th, 2007

For those not familiar with acronyms (AKA losers), that stands for:
Monday Night Brewery and Really Simple Syndication are Best Friends Forever.
Thanks to a tip from a mysterious “Sam,” we realized that we had neglected to make our RSS feed easily accessible. The link can now be found on the sidebar, or, alternately, here. If you [...]

Our Next Logical Steps

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Microbreweries are always trying to find new opportunities, new markets, new sumptuosities to pacify the maddening crowd. At MNB, we’ve been debating for some time about how to follow suit, especially since our brewing has been blowing up recently, now that we’ve so finely honed our craft. We decided to go in a direction that [...]

Boozing Baby

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

This weekend I discovered that teething babies really like our Swashchuckler. Ok, so it wasn’t multiple babies, it was actually just one baby (my niece Noa Kate) and maybe she was actually more excited about the bottle than she was about the beer. Either way I was able to capture this sweet picture.
Her face [...]

Aaaagh! There’s whiskey in my beer!

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

We thought we’d seen the last of the whiskey porter. That dreaded frat brew that was more liquor than beer. I guess that’s what happens when you pour half a handle of Maker’s Mark into a mere five gallons of fermenting beer. If you haven’t caught the reference yet, be sure to check out Joel’s [...]

Lumberjack wins the gold star

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Urgent newsbreak! Our stout-naming polls have officially ended. The winner turns out to be the original name, Lumberjack Oatmeal Stout, with a less than whopping 37% of the vote. There doesn’t seem to be all that much consensus, which means we probably haven’t yet arrived upon the perfect name. But for now, Lumberjack reigns. We [...]

Cranberries = a punch in the face

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

At risk of forfeiting our manhood we have brewed a cranberry ale, which we are currently calling Pucker Punch. We thought a boxing analogy would trick everyone into thinking there was no fruit in it. I know everyone has been waiting on pins and needles for the next label to be revealed, especially after we [...]

A Cautious Optimism

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

With so many new beers in fermentation right now and our recent struggles with sanitation, it was with nervousness and trepidation that I sampled our four latest beers as we transferred them into secondary last night. The first tastes, though tentative, were encouraging. Two are particularly worth mentioning. The Base Jumper Double [...]