Category: Behind the Beer

  • MONDAY NIGHT BREWING TO OPEN IN CHARLOTTE JUNE 24

    MONDAY NIGHT BREWING TO OPEN IN CHARLOTTE JUNE 24

    Monday Night Brewing Garden Co. Announces Grand Opening Celebration  Award-winning craft brewery will open doors to its fifth taproom location on June 24, 2023 Monday Night Brewing, the award-winning craft brewery with locations in Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville, announced today that its fifth taproom location across the Southeast will officially open to the public with…

  • We survived (and thrived) in our bootcamp with The Drinking Coach. 

    We survived (and thrived) in our bootcamp with The Drinking Coach. 

    Like most solid friendships, our relationship with Tiffanie Barriere, the inimitable “Drinking Coach,” began at our local chili cook off.  Our COO Rachel Kiley and Tiffanie sat next to each other while judging Chomp & Stomp in 2021. Between bean-laden bites, a powerful alliance was formed, and when it came time to put together our new line…

  • Juice Raptor v.s. Death Raptor?

    Juice Raptor v.s. Death Raptor?

    A win-win of dino-mite proportions. It all happened one solemn night in the brewhouse. Working late at Trabert, our Brewmaster Peter Kiley heard a curious screech coming from behind our 120-barrel tanks. He went to investigate and couldn’t believe his eyes: A Juice Raptor Hazy IPA was in an all out brawl with our Death Raptor Killer IPA. …

  • The Bock Is Hot, our collab with Hip Hop Heads Brewery, drops 5/29

    The Bock Is Hot, our collab with Hip Hop Heads Brewery, drops 5/29

    Debuting in our Atlanta taprooms May 29, The Bock Is Hot is a collaboration beer between Monday Night Brewing and Hip Hop Heads, a brewery-in-planning. It is the product of a rip in the multiverse: the rare collision of parallel lines. Both Monday Night Brewing and Hip Hop Heads Brewery respectively started as just a…

  • A Tribute to Scotch Trooper

    A Tribute to Scotch Trooper

    A long time ago, in a brewery far, far away…(ahem 2019 at Monday Night Garage), our intrepid brewers crafted an Imperial Milk Stout and locked it away in a fortress of maple bourbon barrels for two years. Our comrades at ASW Distillery sought to join forces in 2021, supplying freshly emptied Single Malt Barrels, and…

  • Faithful Instruction, our second beer divined from the Coolship, debuts today.

    Faithful Instruction, our second beer divined from the Coolship, debuts today.

    With today’s release of Faithful Instruction, a Fruited Méthode Traditonnelle – 3 Year Blend, you may find yourself revisiting the question, “What is a coolship?” Well, put simply in the words of our Brewmaster Peter Kiley: “A coolship is the name that we give to a relatively shallow open top vessel designed for cooling hot…

  • Introducing Shift Meal

    Introducing Shift Meal

    A shift meal might be a moment of respite after a long night on the floor, but it’s more likely a 9pm refuel scarfed in a secret corner out of view. If you’re lucky, it’s paired with a beer.  Brewed in collaboration with Recess, our Shift Meal is an ode to the creativity and resilience…

  • Space Lettuce – a Backstory

    Space Lettuce – a Backstory

    Heads up beer nerds—we just canned a fresh batch of Space Lettuce. This beer holds a special place in our hearts, probably because of the cosmic journey we’ve been on together. Surprisingly, Space Lettuce actually didn’t start out as Space Lettuce at all. Three years ago, this double India pale ale began as a limited…

  • Survey Results: What do taproom visitors expect once breweries start opening to the public?

    Survey Results: What do taproom visitors expect once breweries start opening to the public?

    We recently fielded a survey to 743 of our customers who had purchased from us in the last 3 months. Because of the timing of the survey, many of these are active “to-go” purchasers. The results were interesting enough to share, and we hope they can be helpful to others in the industry. Methodology Monday…

  • ON FURLOUGHS, 6-PACKS, AND THE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT

    ON FURLOUGHS, 6-PACKS, AND THE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT

    Like many small businesses, we are struggling right now. Revenues are down over 50% and we have had to furlough or lay off about half of our staff — just to make sure we can weather this health crisis. Anyone remaining has taken a pay cut and/or reduced ours, and ownership hasn’t taken a paycheck…