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Get the Monday Night discount at Hop City Beer!

Get the Monday Night discount at Hop City Beer!

Q: What’s better than an amazing selection of 1200+ different craft beers?
A: Discounts on the same craft beer.
Mention “Monday Night Brewery” at Hop City every Monday night to get a special discount on all craft beer purchases. How are we able to offer such a bargain? Let’s just say that we tortured Hop City’s [...]

What was the first beer you ever had?

Mine was a tepid Rolling Rock. It was terrible. Ready… GO!

Monday Night recap:

Monday Night recap: “Cool that wort” edition

Despite a 2.5 hour long sparging debacle (our first attempt at a mashout), we ended the night at about 10pm. Thanks to Melvin. Melvin, avid homebrewer and self-proclaimed super genius, was kind enough to let us demo his chilling system as we think about upgrading our current setup. Blah blah blah, submersion pump in ice [...]

Memorialize THIS, Mr. Raincloud

Memorialize THIS, Mr. Raincloud

Happy Memorial Day, everyone! If you live in the Atlanta area, you’re most likely enjoying the overcast skies and the impending threat of rain.

We pay no heed to such things as weather. We will be brewing tonight, rain or shine. What will we be brewing? Jeff has informed us that it will be a surprise, [...]

Our Cascade hops know nothing of the recession

Our Cascade hops know nothing of the recession

We know this because they are growing like pirate profits in Somalia (too soon?). They’re starting to bud already, which scares us, frankly. I KNEW that guy that sold us those “hop steroids” out of the back of his truck in the Kroger parking lot wasn’t legit.

Our hops have gotten so out-of-control that they are [...]

Beer Tap TV names Monday Night Brewery “beer blog of the week”

I don’t know what they’re smoking drinking, but Beer Tap TV named Monday Night Brewery the beer blog of the week. Hey, we’ll take it. I queued up the video of the show to the part where they start talking about us (around 31:30 in, if you’re curious). There is also a dog that runs [...]

JailHouse Brewing busting out

JailHouse Brewing busting out

We had a special visit on Monday from Glenn Golden, the head honcho at JailHouse Brewing, a soon-to-be microbrewery opening up in Hampton, GA. We’ve been following JailHouse for awhile now and it was great to finally connect. Glenn is a few months ahead of us in terms of schedule, and unlike us is not [...]