At long last, Joel has joined Jeff and me on Atlanta’s Westside, where we plan to open our brewery. Joel lives just a stone’s throw from Jeff’s with his lovely wife, Mary Stuart. Jeff and Hannah invited me over for dinner last night (how it pays to be the pathetic single male friend, sometimes). It [...]

We’re making some progress. The top 2 character choices right now are:

Weatherman (wits are cloudy)
Jester (wit… you know)

And the top names are:

Weatherman Wit
Scathing Wit
Wit’s End

Unfortunately my contribution: “Walt’s Wit, Man” failed to make the shortlist. I suspect knavery. Any favorites among these? Or fresh ideas? The issue we’ve run into with this beer is that [...]

This summer’s focus has been on refining a handful of beers that we think hold the most promise as MNB flagship launch beers. So at the end of August, what do we have to show for it? Let’s start with the Eye Patch Ale (originally Swashchuckler IPA).
The goal with our IPA was to [...]

Thanks to everyone who came last night. We had a good crowd, in spite of the weather. The rain made it difficult to brew (we didn’t want any of Atlanta’s acid raid infecting our beers), so we actually just hung out and drank. It was amazing. We circled up a bunch of chairs and made [...]

Tonight we’re brewing another batch of our Belgian wit beer (name pending - thanks for all the feedback). Since switching from a Bavarian style hefe to the Belgian wit, we’ve made 2 batches and are very pleased with the results. All indications are that tonight will be a good crowd, so drop us [...]

Our Interview with a Brewer series has been one of the most rewarding things we’ve done on this bog (yes, even more rewarding than discovering Travis’ new gig as a spokesmodel. It’s been great because we can get to meet other brewers and – more importantly – cheat off of their test papers. Peter turned [...]

And thus begin the headlines for Budweiser’s American Ale, the savior of beers and babies alike. I won’t get into a review of the beer or discuss its technical merits (a great write-up can be found over at It’s the Beer Talking). I haven’t tried it, and don’t find myself clamoring to try one either.
But [...]