No brewing tonight, either
We normally don’t skip two Mondays in a row, but the holidays have gone all catawampus on us. It’s a word, I double-checked. We’ll be back on track to brew next week, December 21, so get geared up.
Encouraging news for our Drafty Kilt
The Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale is one of our two launch beers and a beer that we’ve spent literally three years perfecting. We brewed a test production batch earlier this summer and have been attempting to replicate that recipe on our new Brew-Magic since then. Unfortunately Lemony Snicket conspired against us with a series of unfortunate events. Our fermenting chamber broke. We had some mash efficiency mishaps. And it takes the Drafty Kilt a good 6 weeks to ferment and age anyway.
On Monday, December 1, we did a side-by-side comparison of our latest Drafty Kilt with the test batch brewed this summer. The first step for us is to ensure that these two recipes taste alike, before we make tweaks. That way we can be relatively certain that anything we brew on our pilot system will scale up consistently. Great news. They were surprisingly consistent, especially considering they were brewed four months apart.
What does this mean? Now we can focus on the 1 or 2 small changes we want to make to this recipe before it’s ready to go. LEEEEROY… JEEEEENKINS.
MNB American Apparel shirts arriving soon! Only $10!
Yes folks, that’s right. We’ve got schwag. They will look similar to this, except they will be made of high quality American Apparel fabrics instead of computer screens.
We will be selling them at Monday Night events, so go to the ATM now and grab some cash. $10 gets you the first production MNB shirt. Joel is especially excited because this is the first time his likeness has been emblazoned on any fabric. (Joel is the silhouette of our logo)
No brewing on Monday
First, I would like to apologize for our lack of blog activity this past week. We hope this changes soon.
Second, I would like to apologize for those of you expecting us to be brewing tomorrow (Monday). We also hope this changes soon. Bear with us, things are crazy.