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Archive for October, 2007

11. Get ready.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

As many of you are already aware, Bryan Adams has tentatively titled his 11th studio album (release date set for February 2008) “11.” If you don’t believe us, check out his personal website.
And for those of you curious as to why Monday Night Brewery is reporting Bryan Adams news, you should know that Bryan Adams [...]

Monday Night Brewery CANCELLED tonight

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

We rarely cancel MNB the day of, but today qualifies as an exception. The primary driver being the Chupacabra that has invaded my body while I was in Mexico. Other important factors include:

We have tons of beer fermenting
Jeff wants to tweak our pumpkin ale recipe before next pass (can you say “too many cloves?”)
We brewed [...]

We finally make use of our brewing software

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

We’ve been using ProMash to help us plan our recipes for the past few months. It has been really nice (despite the fact that it doesn’t run on a Mac). We can change scales, figure out IBUs, beer color, expected ABVs (called gravity in the brewing community), as well as a slew of other things. [...]

Stick to beer, Jonathan

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I just got back from a company retreat in Mexico (jealous much?). I apologize for how lame the blog has been in my absence… Look for the awesome-itude to pick up shortly. Till then, I leave you with a picture of what happens to me after tequila shots. I hereby declare that beer is my [...]

Pitching Hot

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

This past Monday, we brewed a batch of our Lumberjack Oatmeal Stout. The past couple batches of this beer have been a bit disappointing - lower than ideal original gravity has given us a beer that is more like a lame porter. From all indications, we’re back on track, but we had two [...]

Our Harvest Ale

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Tonight we tapped the Harvest Ale. No, none of us are farmers or know anything at all about farming…but everyone has to have a harvest ale these days (especially to celebrate the 90degree October days in Atlanta). Actually the true credit for this Harvest Ale goes to our new friend Troy. Troy [...]

New brewery in the works

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

The time has come. We’re starting to run into the limitations of our current brewing setup, namely temperature control and exposure of the beer to air (which is usually bad). MNB has had a preliminary planning session for what will become our pilot brewery – and most likely the same brewery that we will use [...]