Monday Update: The Election, Our Lactic Stout, and Jeff’s Recipes
Yesterday was a big day with lots going on for MNB. Highlights are as follows…
Election Update (just when you thought you’d gotten enough)
We at MNB care deeply about the community we (literally) serve (beer to) here in Westside Atlanta. While you’ll notice we stayed far away from federal politics on this blog our local politics are a different issue. I’m proud to inform our readers that I officially launched my political career last night. That’s right, I was elected as an “at-large” board member of the Berkeley Park Neighborhood Association. Yeah, it’s kind of a big deal and if my meteoric rise tracks anywhere close to that of Obama or Palin they just might need to watch out for me in 2012.
Lactic Stout
We brewed a milk stout last night and despite the frigid weather had nearly forty people come out. Although Jonathan shared his thoughts on this beer in a previous post I think the real reason we were doing it is because Jeff is about to have a baby (well, not him literally but his wife). I think he read somewhere that a milk stout can be substituted for baby formula so he wants to perfect this beer long before the baby arrives. For those of you who think babies don’t enjoy a good beer I refer you to a previous post.
Jeff’s Recipes
Jeff has been hitting the books lately. Although we give him a fair amount of crap about it he has managed to come up with a few decent recipes and some that were not quite as hot. While I won’t go into the details here I uncovered some major deviations from MNB SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) last night and on top of that he was complaining about having to wash out a few kegs (he doesn’t do well with “manual labor”). What Jonathan and I have finally realized is that we need to embrace Jeff in his full Harvard-book-loving-excel-crunching glory. We love you Jeff.
120 Minute IPA
This is how we finished the evening.
Yummy.
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Don’t sweat the “not quite as hot” recipes too too much. I thought my Brown Ale was going to redefine the style. The brew, in real life, culminated in 7 overcarbonated bottles raining beer and tiny shards of glass all over my pantry. Fortunately, I have the best wife north of the Mason Dixon (I don’t think I want to start any wife wars), so she took it in stride.
On the bright side, my Belgian’s have all been fantastic, my Alt that I brewed two weeks ago should also be great, and my wife was presented with a newly cleaned out pantry.
Dude, that’s a helluva way to “finish” an evening. It makes me wonder how it started.
Any time is a good time for Dogfish Head. I plan on starting, and ending my day at “The Great Pour” with it.
I will be sure to send you a pic of my glass, so we can compare.