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The Goche tastes beer for the first time. The Goche does not like it.

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

But I can’t blame him… I didn’t like it at first either. I just pretended to like it so my friends wouldn’t call me weak. My roommate, affectionately called “The Goche,” celebrated his 21st birthday last night at midnight by cracking open a bottle of Lumberjack Stout.
That’s right. His first beer ever was a Monday [...]

My roommate has never had a beer

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

It’s true. Don’t ask me how it happened. Though, to his credit, I didn’t have my first full beer till I turned 21 (I gorged myself on a tepid Rolling Rock).
In 2 weeks AJ (the roommate) will be turning 21. He’s been coming to brew beer with us on Monday Night and has yet to [...]

Beer blog round-up!

Friday, June 29th, 2007

There are a lot of beer blogs. I seem to stumble upon a new one (or new to me, at least) every day now. However, as I’m sure a lot of you know, there are also a lot of mediocre beer blogs. That said, the following is a purely subjective list of MNB’s all-time beer [...]

“I don’t want no trub, a trub is a guy don’t get no love from me”

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

…unless that trub happens to be Trub Wortwurst, in which case trub is a guy who gets TONS of love from me. Why? Because “Trub” AKA Robert has won our monthly pint glass drawing. It’s actually less of a drawing and more of a “ask a co-worker to pick a number between 1 and 63.” [...]

MNB loses its first flame war!

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

The Internet is a cruel mistress. About a month back I commented on a post by Hair of the Dog Dave (always a good read, I might add) on a video about how to chill a beer (or Coke) in 2 minutes. Here’s the original video:

Chill A Coke In 2 Minutes! - video powered by [...]

New beer rule: variation is not bad. Good news for us.

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Before we get started here, this picture has nothing to do with the post. It was just too awesome not to share. Imagine Brian Fellow: “DAT SQUIRREL CAN DRINK A BEER.”
Stan at Appellation Beer has released another beer rule: “Variation is not a flaw.” I think he was speaking directly to us with this [...]

And while we’re on the subject of Rogue…

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

I’ve been on a Rogue kick the past couple months. Turns out I like their beer. Now I have another reason to like them: they’re miserly. Check this from Bob, author of the [BW] Beer Blog, who recently toured the Rogue facilities:
“The brewery itself isn’t the prettiest or fanciest place in the world, but that’s [...]