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Interview with a Retailer: Flip Burger boutique in Atlanta

One of my favorite neighborhood spots of Flip Burger boutique.  It’s a mere block from my house and the landmark by which I reference where I live now (as no one seems to have heard of Berkeley Park but everyone seems to have heard of Flip).  The place is mad crazy busy all the time [...]

Monday Night Recap:

Monday Night Recap: “Not as funny since Jonathan is not writing it” edition

I’ll start with a disclaimer that this post will not be as funny as Jonathan’s recap, nor will you find any links to incredibly attractive pictures of me.  What you will find is a fact-based dissertation of yesterday evening’s events.  Finally.
1. Jeff was there the whole evening. For those of you who come on Mondays [...]

German Bierfest Tomorrow

German Bierfest Tomorrow

Our friend and Monday-Night-attendee commonly known as John (frequent commenter) Alexander will be pouring beer tomorrow at the German Bierfest.  Yes, the Germans did lose WWII but they nonetheless make some amazing beers (and cars) and you should most certainly plan to spend your afternoon there.  If you’re so brave you can even come dressed [...]

Building a beer fermentation chamber

Jonathan and several other blog readers have been asking for this post for some time now. For those of you who don’t care about fermentation temperature controls this is going to be really boring (I’ve warned you). For those that do, hopefully my experiences can provide a nice blueprint for building something similar.
The [...]

Interview with a scholar: Professor Ken Elzinga (part 1)

This is the first (and potentially only) installment in a new series interviewing “scholars” about the beer brewing industry (no Jeff, just because you went to Harvard that doesn’t make you a scholar). Professor Ken Elzinga is a renowned economist at UVA, was my adviser in college, and I realized recently that he’s an expert [...]

Monday Update: The Election, Our Lactic Stout, and Jeff's Recipes

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 [...]

MNB is Moving

Don’t worry, we’re not moving to somewhere lame like Delaware.  We’re just moving our site over to a new bigger, better, faster server this evening.  What this means to you:

Quicker, more reliable load times when you click on all the amazing pictures of me
No downtime (we were getting death threats from our fans last time [...]