This past Monday we were able to enjoy an amazing new tap handle as we poured the Swashchuckler and Lumberjack from the kegerator. This stellar new addition is complements of Ian - my younger sister’s boyfriend. Ian and I have a special relationship. I had never met him and for the previous [...]

Normally I don’t repost people’s comments, but our friend Brad (the self-proclaimed Unrepentant Individual) has done gone and made a great point – which happens to back up my position:
One more way the internet is changing the world.
Beer used to be dominated by the guys who could make fancy commercials and put them [...]

The Thanksgiving Holiday has given me a chance to catch up on some reading. I’m about halfway through Christopher Mark O’Brien’s Fermenting Revolution. Much of the first half of the book on the history of beer and revolution seems to me to be very conjectural (such as: “Maybe Jesus turned water into beer instead of [...]

After such an informative interview with Steve at Beau’s All-Natural Brewing, we decided to make a little series out of brewer interviews. And so, we present to you our second such endeavor: an interview with Gabriel, founder of Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago, who we discovered through our friend Ted, brewer and drummer and [...]

Our friend (and fellow homebrewer) Ted has gotten himself hooked up to a real-life brewery: Half Acre Beer Company, based out of Chicago. Their story is an interesting one. Half Acre doesn’t yet have their own brewery, but they are working on it. In the meantime, they’re contract brewing with some friends farther North.
We’re going [...]

Oh Mary… What have you done to deserve this wonderful gift? You’re from Jacksonville. You travel for work. Your boyfriend has a pint glass collection. Are those enough reasons for you? Or, if not, perhaps the fact that we randomly chose your name from our mailing list?
For those of you bursting with jealousy, you too [...]

Meet Andy. It’s Andy’s lucky day.

Andy has been given front-page status for this day only for one reason: he is a pack mule. When you ooze excellence like Jeff, Joel and I, it’s easy to forget the little people that make Monday Night Brewery possible.
Andy comes early every week. He mills grains, cleans carboys, transfers [...]