We’re ready to adopt!
Attention Atlanta. Do you have anything that looks similar to this crowding up your basement or garage?
If so, you may be in possession of what we call a “chest freezer.” Be warned, these are potentially lethal devices. Amateurs maintain that they are “cool,” but they are really ice queens. They also use electricity (which is an issue if you are Amish) and take up valuable space that could be used for a ping-pong table (which is an issue if you love ping-pong). Fortunately, you have options.
We are ready to adopt your working chest freezer at NO COST TO YOU! Don’t worry. While a chest freezer is a dangerous tool in a novice’s hands, our world-renowned expert on chest freezers, Joel, will be supervising all operations. If you are ready to take advantage of this generous offer, please let us know. Before your chest freezer kills you.
Due to technical difficulties
Due to some unforeseen technical difficulties involving the inner-workings (or lack of inner-workings) of our fermentation chamber, we will not be brewing this evening.
Instead, we ask that you perform a “fermentation chamber dance,” which is similar in spirit to a “rain dance.” For those who haven’t been clued in, a “fermentation chamber dance” involves:
- Going down to Hop City
- Asking for the Monday Night discount on a craft beer purchase
- Drinking said beer
- Dancing like this
Proceed.
Better baseball teams command higher beer prices
The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article today on the correlation between a ballpark’s winning percentage and the cost of the beer there. I’m admittedly not the biggest baseball fan (I blame it on one massive failure of a year playing Little League), but beer and economics is right up my alley. Beer prices can vary dramatically depending on the stadium. A 21 oz beer costs $4.75 in Pittsburgh, but a 20 oz beer costs $8.75 in San Francisco. That’s a hefty margin. So what’s the correlation?
A team with a .600 winning percentage charges, on average, about $1.30 more for a 16-ounce beer than does a team with a .400 percentage.
There are obviously anomalies, as writer Justin Merry points out.
[T]here’s Nationals Park where, in exchange for watching baseball’s worst team, fans get to spend $7.50 for a 20-ounce beer. Of course, nothing compares to Boston’s Fenway Park. There, you’ll pay $7.25 for just 12 ounces?a rate that is, ounce for ounce and win for win, the worst beer value in baseball.
No word on where Atlanta falls in all of this. At least we aren’t the Nationals.
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Monday Night recap: “Labor Day is more relaxing than it sounds” edition
We had a lighter crowd than normal yesterday, but that doesn’t mean that we missed you guys. All you “Labor Day” folks with your “out-of-town plans” and “better things to do.” Bah.
This was our second week brewing with the new Brew-Magic system and we brewed the same recipe of the Drafty Kilt that we tried last week. The good news is, we’re getting the hang of it. There are still a few kinks to iron out, but we’re getting closer to our projected final gravity and we’re getting better at using a completely new system. Except the part where Jeff forgot to heat up the sparge water. Zoinks.
For the brewing dorks out there, we also tightened our grain mill last night, from a gap of .045 to .035. This gives us a little bit of a finer crush and will hopefully help us get our efficiency where it needs to be.
Don’t worry, Cara Kara (the puppy) isn’t drunk. She’s just resting from all of the grain she lapped up off of the garage floor. Nutrients galore! In other news, we had special guest Geistbear join us last night. And he was in need of a 10 gallon all-grain setup. So we sold him ours. If his check bounces we’re going to sick Cara Kara on him.
Labor Day brewing: 5-8pm
We’re going to celebrate Labor Day in our own way… by brewing on the early side. Tomorrow we’re going to give the Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale another go on our new Brew-Magic. Feel free to stop by Jeff’s house between 5-8pm to partake in the stainless steel festivities, but know that we’re going to close up shop around 8pm. Which may even give you a chance to make your 2nd choice in Labor Day plans.
We’re nice like that.
MNB speaking at IgniteATL tonight
We are one of 18 speakers at the inaugural IgniteATL event taking place this evening at Georgia Tech. There are still a few (free) spots to attend, and we would love to have a few friendly faces in the audience to laugh awkwardly at our jokes. If you have nothing better to do from 6:30-9pm this evening, come on out! Make sure to RSVP because I hear the bouncer is pretty big.
So what is IgniteATL?
IgniteATL is a series of events designed to bring together interesting people from a variety of backgrounds and put together evenings of education. Passionate people will give 5 minute talks, consisting of 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds on their area of expertise or experience.
Federal label approval for Eye Patch Ale and Drafty Kilt
Attention all you boring people who are interested in “laws” and “government” and “paperwork.” Have we got news for you!
We just received federal label approval for our Eye Patch Ale and Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale. Next step is to start filing some state paperwork, which we will begin doing… NOW. Below are the final labels. If you find any typos, please keep them to yourself. No, seriously, tell us about them. Then we’ll play them off like we MEANT to say “you’re mom” instead of “your mom.”
