Newsflash: We rule
We didn’t realize until recently, but it turns out we are awesome. The breakthrough came Thursday night as we dipped our Laissez-Faire Barleywine in gold wax and put labels on them. Turns out they look GOOD. Almost too good…
Our friend actually took a bottle to Brick Store in Decatur and shared it with some of the staff. Apparently it was very well-received. Of course, he could have just been buttering us up to get some more barleywine out of us. I guess it’s a compliment either way.
In other news, last night went really well. We brewed the Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale without a hitch, despite Joel’s meddling. We also had our first intertranscontinental MNB attendee in Juan who is here for a few weeks from Argentina.
Jonathan, Joel & Jeff
January 15th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I think you mean inter-continental, but we’ll forgive you for being illiterate.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
touché
January 16th, 2008 at 8:51 am
That’s some original thinking. You MAKERS of this beer have really left your MARK on the world of bottle design.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Well, it’s not like Makers Mark was the first libation maker to dip their bottles in wax either. I think it creates a pretty cool effect, especially with something like a barley wine.
Also, did you guys bottle those in bombers? I’m not sure I could suck down 22 ounces of barley wine all by my lonesome. That would take a yeoman effort. Full disclosure though: I haven’t had much barley wine, so maybe people north of the Mason Dixon are just wusses.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Kevin: Yes, those are indeed 22 oz bottles. You’re right about the difficulty of drinking an 11% barleywine all by yourself. That was actually one of the reasons we decided to go with the bombers. This is a special beer for us, so we wanted to encourage drinking it with friends and family.
Matt: you suck.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!
ps- so can I get a bottle?
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September 18th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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