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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 [...]

Gravity reigns in our sparging setup

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

A haiku dedicated to Isaac Newton:
Sir Isaac Newton
You invented gravity
So that we could brew
Hopefully we’ll be getting a pump soon, but until then, we rely on gravity. At least we have a rotating sparge arm, unlike the lame stationary setup that Travis made. Those New Yorkers can’t do anything right…

Business meeting tonight. NOT.

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

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 [...]

New brewery in the works

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

The time has come. We’re starting to run into the limitations of our current brewing setup, namely temperature control and exposure of the beer to air (which is usually bad). MNB has had a preliminary planning session for what will become our pilot brewery – and most likely the same brewery that we will use [...]