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Archive for June, 2007

MNB = Busy Beavers

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Last night (a Monday) was awesome. Thanks to everyone who popped in. (I accidentally typed “pooped in,” but don’t worry, I corrected it). We might have set an all-time record in terms of amount of stuff we got done. Here’s the lowdown:
Swashchuckler IPA: We brewed a 10-gallon batch. We’ll see how it turns out, given [...]

A Family Affair

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Remember the gusher bug we’ve been dealing with in our beers for the last 2 months? Throwing out all our plastic buckets made a dent in the issue, but recently, we had another batch of IPA catch the deadly yeast strain, which turn our beer into overcarbonated alcohol water. However, we did have [...]

MNB loses its first flame war!

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

The Internet is a cruel mistress. About a month back I commented on a post by Hair of the Dog Dave (always a good read, I might add) on a video about how to chill a beer (or Coke) in 2 minutes. Here’s the original video:

Chill A Coke In 2 Minutes! - video powered by [...]

New beer rule: variation is not bad. Good news for us.

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Before we get started here, this picture has nothing to do with the post. It was just too awesome not to share. Imagine Brian Fellow: “DAT SQUIRREL CAN DRINK A BEER.”
Stan at Appellation Beer has released another beer rule: “Variation is not a flaw.” I think he was speaking directly to us with this [...]

Save Georgia’s m crobrewery!

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

I have gotten multiple emails today calling for action against an initiative being voted on in the Georgia Department of Revenue. In a nutshell, there is a chance that microbrewery tours in Georgia could become severely restricted in the amount of beer each person can sample. The cap would be 2 oz per beer, with [...]

Joel eradicates beer from the world

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Remember that time when we had that sanitation problem with our beer? Yeah, that was fun. Joel found himself dealing with the remnants of said problem on Monday. Take a look at the video and you’ll know why we had to pour it out. It was either that or serve it to our enemies… revenge [...]

Gravity reigns on Monday Night

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Yesterday we learned something important about gravity. Namely, that it is awesome. We brewed a 10-gallon all-grain batch of stout, which essentially filled up our mash tun to capacity. We also decided to try to get our wort to a boil as we were siphoning out of the sparging setup. I won’t bore you with [...]