We did it. We brewed a beer. We started out a bit light on the ol’ turnout, but things picked up around 9pm or so. One of my favorite parts of Monday Night Brewery is the aftermath… after I’ve gotten my jeans soaked from Joel’s errant hose blasts… after we’ve done a shoddy job cleaning [...]

No time to type. Brewing tonight. Pale ale. Drinking pale ale and hefeweizen. Come hang out. Running out of t- NOOOOOO!!! THE DRAGON GOT MY LEG!!! OH GOD THE PAIN!! THE UNCONT- *crunch*
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West sent along this classy gem. A Christmas tree made entirely of Grolsch beer bottles. Click on the pic for a close-up – and notice how they even positioned each swivel top to simulate ornaments and/or lights.

Oh beer lovers with too much time and too many green beer bottles… You are sooo silly. And classy. [...]

Stigmas abound regarding the South and alcohol. Rum runners. Bootleggers. The Southern Baptist Convention. All in all, not very good associations. And when it comes to Christians drinking beer, it can get heated quickly. True, Christianity has a long history of beer love (think Trappist monks), but the religion also has a more recent history [...]

Monday night marked the first opportunity for us to try our Oxynator, a pure oxygen system to aerate the wort (in lieu of shaking, which can get pretty graphic). Besides the ability to avoid humping your carboys, theoretically this should give us better attenuation (conversion of the sugars from the grains into CO2 and alcohol), [...]

Who knew that it could get so cold in Georgia? Last night we braved the elements and brewed our Lumberjack Stout outdoors. We tweaked the recipe a bit from last time, and we should get some better attenuation, since we used a yeast starter and pure oxygen (see discussion here). More on the oxygen tomorrow.
Joel [...]

These interviews with professional brewers have been incredibly insightful for us. I realize the posts are long, but there’s a lot of interesting stuff in there. This third installment in the Interview with a Brewer series is compliments of Beaux Bowman, one of the two founders of the Black Raven Brewery, which will be opening [...]