As Jeff, Joel and I sat around Joel’s porch last night after a record night of brewing firsts (including the earliest end time to date and the quickest fermentation known to man), we decided that it was finally time to get serious about brewing.
But seriously, we decided it was high time we established ourselves as [...]

Most industries are cutthroat. Brewing is no exception, at least at the top. However, the craft brewing and micro scene is a bit different. Beer is not treated as a commodity, but a differentiated product. And making this product is so time-consuming and variable-dependent that no one brewery could possibly brew enough different kinds of [...]

Our neighborhood restaurant (and by that I don’t mean Applebee’s) is incredible. It’s called the Treehouse and it’s a converted house with a huge deck, great food, and g eat beer.
In a recent visit there I was quite disappointed to find that nearly all (3 out of the 4) beers they carried on tap [...]

I hate that phrase. No one’s going to think more of you because you call it “progress” instead of “mess.” Nonetheless, we’re making progress. Specifically on an email newsletter (perhaps to be sent out today, so sign up soon!) and a complete site overhaul.

Joel gets weird about our website, so that one might take a [...]

Whilst washing about 200 bottles last Saturday, Jeff, Joel and I participated in another segment of what has been an ongoing MNB discussion: what kind of brewery should we be?
We’re early enough in the brewery creation stages that we can still shift gears fairly easily. And this is something we will continue to wrestle with [...]

I have gotten multiple emails today calling for action against an initiative being voted on in the Georgia Department of Revenue. In a nutshell, there is a chance that microbrewery tours in Georgia could become severely restricted in the amount of beer each person can sample. The cap would be 2 oz per beer, with [...]

After recently securing a grain mill, we have decided that buying grains in bulk just makes sense. So last week, I loaded up the 2-door Civic with 280 pounds of malt - five 50-pound bags (pale malt, pilsner, wheat, munich and cara-pils) and three 10-pound bags (two bags of 20L crystal and one 60L). [...]