The Thanksgiving Holiday has given me a chance to catch up on some reading. I’m about halfway through Christopher Mark O’Brien’s Fermenting Revolution. Much of the first half of the book on the history of beer and revolution seems to me to be very conjectural (such as: “Maybe Jesus turned water into beer instead of [...]

We will not be brewing tonight. The reasons are numerous, but include:

Joel is out of town
The drought
We forgot to buy grain (this is perhaps the biggest reason)

Fortunately, your Monday night need not be a wash. Feel free to watch the mighty Tennessee Titans humiliate the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football. And rest assured, we [...]

We’ve been waffling on a name and label for our barleywine, which has been cellared now for around 4 months. After sampling a few choice bottles over the past few months, we’re confident that this beer is going to kick some serious ass. As such, we need to make sure that the name and label [...]

Stories of the hops – and rumored increases in beer prices – have found their way onto NPR. Kristen sent in this report, which discusses the decreases in hops production and what that means for microbreweries (I’ll give you a hint: it’s bad). We at MNB have dealt with the hops shortages in our own [...]

So we’ve been pretty busy lately. Not so much with beer as with our regular jobs. Jeff has been working on some mysterious new deal. I just picture him looking out of the window in his corner office yelling “SELL SELL SELL”! Personally, I’ve been busy organizing and conducting focus groups. We were watching moms [...]

My dad made his first appearance at MNB last night. He was in town on business, whatever that means. In any event, I thought it a appropriate time to post this label which was created as a prank for his motorcycle club. Check out the inspiration here. (Thanks Mark!) Apparently my dad is a [...]

After such an informative interview with Steve at Beau’s All-Natural Brewing, we decided to make a little series out of brewer interviews. And so, we present to you our second such endeavor: an interview with Gabriel, founder of Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago, who we discovered through our friend Ted, brewer and drummer and [...]