There’s nothing better than free stuff. Especially when that stuff is related to beer. Shelli, my manager at my day job (marketing consulting), graciously donated a full-sized refrigerator to the cause of Monday Night Brewery. We don’t have room to store it at Joel’s yet, and we don’t need it for brewing until we build […]

I was poking around on the interweb this morning and found a new (at least to me) homebrew blog, cleverly named Home Brew Beer. Bryon, like us, is brewing his own beer and blogging about it. Good stuff. Check it out.
And while I’m here, I should tell you that Joel is going to help me […]

Several weeks ago, I spent a week in the U.K. (Scotland and England specifically). Over the course of the week, I tried at least a dozen different beers, sticking predominantly to British drafts. From Deuchers to Greene King to Old Peculiar to Triumph, I tasted what I have been reading for the past […]

Those who came Monday night already know that we brewed up some root beer. Don’t worry, we had our priorities straight. Beer first, root beer second. Maybe even third. Once the beer brewing was underway I tiptoed inside and brewed up a 5 gallon batch of root beer on the stove. And just so everyone […]

Cliff Clavin of Cheers was a wise man. The kind of guy you’d recruit first for Trivial Pursuit. His knowledge of beer is no exception:
Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and […]

Many of you are aware of the trouble we’ve had coming up with a suitable name for our barleywine, which will be available come Christmastime. When storing the barleywine, I wrote “Laissez-Faire” on the boxes to signify that people needs to keeps their grubby paws off of our masterpiece. Laissez-Faire represents, of course, the economic […]

We now present Part II of our 2-part interview with Steve Beauchesne of Beau’s All Natural Brewing. Steve started a brewery in Ontario with his father (see picture at left). For those who have not yet read Part I, it is well worth it. And for those who have no idea what is going on, […]