Though not technically a brewery, Blind Bat seems to have quite the head start on MNB. I was reading The Daily Catch today and found an interesting post on Blind Bat, a Long Island upstart focusing on “artisanal ales.”
I have to admit, I have terrible associations with Long Island (rich, snotty girls with ugly accents). [...]

After a lukewarm response to the name “Old Prospector Common Ale,” we thought we’d give it another go.
I think this whole gold rush thing has legs, so I’m proposing Gold Digger Common Ale.
Maybe a silhouette of an old guy with a cane next to a foxy young lady?
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Another Monday is upon us and we’ll be brewing another batch of the Roundhouse Pale Ale. We’ve got some sweet new (used) carboys and have some WeissGuy on tap tonight. We’ll also be sampling the Southern Monk Belgian to see if it’s got any legs.
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Most industries are cutthroat. Brewing is no exception, at least at the top. However, the craft brewing and micro scene is a bit different. Beer is not treated as a commodity, but a differentiated product. And making this product is so time-consuming and variable-dependent that no one brewery could possibly brew enough different kinds of [...]

My friend recently took a family trip to Belgium and snuck me back a few brews. Niiiice. One of them was a Grimbergen Blond. According to Wikipedia,
Grimbergen is the name of a group of Belgian abbey beers first brewed in 1128 at the abbey that Saint Norbert of Xanten built for the Norbertine monks in [...]

Many of you have heard of our Roundhouse Pale Ale, our humble homage to all of the great American ninjas. You may not yet have heard of “Guinness” or “Harp,” but these “Irish” brews are now infiltrating our culture, and even threatening the same ninjas that define us. Thanks to The Barley Blog for the [...]

So we’re doing a bit of experimenting with our pale ale, which currently is good but not great. We brewed a 10-gallon batch on Monday. Five minutes before the end of the boil, Joel came up with the idea of putting ginger in the beer. So… we threw half an ounce of candied ginger in [...]