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Archive for February, 2008

Come to our party, fools

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

If you’re on our mailing list, you already know about our first Brewhaha, March 15 of this year. Unless our emails go straight to your SPAM folder, in which case you need to seriously reevaluate your SPAM software.
We’ll have 4 of our beers served up nice, and everyone who comes will be given a free [...]

Brewery Ommegang is NOT dog-friendly

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

My roommate cracked open a bottle of Brewery Ommegang’s Chocolate Indulgence Stout last night. There must have been something magical in that beer (besides the cocoa powder), because our dog Donut was immediately drawn to it. She got hold of the cork (oh silly Belgian-style bottles) and would not let go. Mostly because she couldn’t. [...]

Tuesday morning roundup

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

We brewed The-Stout-Formerly-Known-As-Lumberjack last night. Aside from longer than usual wait getting the temperature down cool enough to pitch the yeast, all went well. There was some whining (Joel), but no one died.
We also busted out our second conical fermenter (see pic above), which was exciting to say the least. Oh, haven’t had enough pics [...]

Our Monday Night Brewery business meeting turns into a dork fest

Monday, February 18th, 2008

All the signs of a great business meeting were there. We had some interesting beers to try. Joel wasn’t in attendance. Jeff’s wife Hannah picked us up a nice Italian dinner from Figo (thanks!).
And the meeting itself went well. We planned the party on March 15 (Are you coming? Let us know on the sidebar.). [...]

Brewing with Blichmann

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

As Jeff and I started brewing a batch of our Swashchuckler IPA Saturday, we got word from Joel (still under the spell of the Godzilla virus) that our stainless steel conical fermenters had arrived. Well, what choice did we have? We had to go over there, bring them back to Jeff’s, and use them. And [...]

MNB bites the stainless steel bullet

Friday, February 15th, 2008

It takes a lot to get Jeff excited enough to crap himself. Well, he just crapped himself. Why? Because we have two (2) 14.5 gallon stainless steel conical fermenters from Blichmann Engineering arriving on Monday. We’ve been pinching our pennies to splurge on these bad boys, which offer a number of advantages:

minimal handling of fermenting [...]

Bryan Adams Goes Creepo

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Our good friend Liz has sent us her modified version of Bryan’s (yeah, we’re on a first name basis) classic song “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman”. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we thought we’d pass along the moderately creepier “Have You Ever Really Stalked a Woman”. Thanks for weirding us all [...]