Come join us at the brewery for our annual day before Thanksgiving Brewnight! We will be brewing up another batch of our IPA and possibly working on some other things. If you are still in town Wednesday night, please come join us and bring all of your friends and family. We have Oatmeal Stout, IPA, Oktoberfest, Wit and Rye P.A. all on tap! Call or email me if you need directions (678) 231-3171 / roblysse@gmail.com

The craft beer movement in Atlanta is ever-growing. There is a new collaboration brew from Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada that just arrived on the shelves of Hop City in Atlanta. This special beer is called Life and Limb. This special brew is a dedicated release to supporters of the craft beer movement all over, especially Atlanta. It was born out of a friendship between to great breweries. I’d also like to thank everyone that was able to make it out to our brew night tonight! We were able to reduce our surplus which means we will resume brewing the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. If you couldn’t make it out tonight, I highly recommend you come out next Wednesday!

It’s 5:45 and it’s dark outside!! Fortunately Jamie and I were able to enjoy the little daylight we got this weekend. I was at a wedding in North Carolina, congrats Bill and Erin, and Jamie made his way down to Atlanta for the Chomp and Stomp Festival chili cookoff in Cabbage Town. I hope everyone was also able to enjoy the great weather we had, and more importantly try some new brews! Speaking of brews, we ARE brewing this upcoming Wednesday! Dun, Dun, Dun! I know that may be shocking to some of you considering we haven’t brewed in a month, but we hope to see everyone’s smiling faces on brew night so we can share our brews with you!

It’s definitely been an interesting beginning to our brewing season already! We have had more weird circumstances, mostly outside of brewing thankfully, to date than we normally do for several months at a time. It seems, however, the figurative clouds are lifting (it better cause I’m running out of dry shoes) and we’ll be full- force into brewage!

We have planned for this coming Wednesday a brew night AND- wait for it… wait for it… beer tasting!!! That’s right. We’ve stocked our coffers with enough golden brew to finally supply a tasting. We will be concocting once again the Rye Pale Ale which has proven to be a pleasantly balanced and a delightfully drinkable American Pale.

Please come by the brew lab anytime after 7 or so and kick it with us for a bit. You’ll get to see the homebrewing process and enjoy the reward of much hard work that goes into it. Don’t hesitate to email or call with questions or directions. Cheers!

Brewing / Tasting for tomorrow is off! Due to the recent floods, our brew lab was submerged for a brief period of time. No need to worry though, the beer is fine. We resume normal operating hours once the sun comes back..

The Atlanta Journal Constitution published an interesting article the other day on Sweetwater’s recent success as a Craft Brewery in Atlanta. Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few years, you’ve most likely tried some of their brews for yourself. The article goes on to state that Sweetwater is the 29th nationally for sales volume. This could potentially be really good for brewers and breweries in Georgia. With Sweetwater drumming up all that revenue and supporting local economy, we may start to see some of the ridiculous anti-beer laws in Georgia finally being changed. We’ll see what the future holds…

I personally really enjoy most of the beers Sweetwater produces and suggest that you go try some if you haven’t already. I hope that one day our little brewery can make it this big!

Despite the torrential downpour today, we brewed up our Oatmeal Stout. Thanks again to Neal and the gang plus TAYLOR and Ed for weathering the storm and showing up to brew night sans beer. I’d also like to point out that David showed up and expressed interest in brewing, we made him clean a lot… but you’ve got to start somewhere. After we took our original gravity, we thought we were going to wind up with a pretty big beer (aka… it’ll get you drunk), but we only missed our OG by 2 points. For those who couldn’t make it, I snapped a few photos with my iPhone. See below…  I’d also like to mention that we are on track for having 10 gallons of Wit ready for next Wednesday! Check back often for updates on our progress on brewing and starting a craft brewery in Kennesaw. We wouldn’t be where we are now without all of our fans support!

We also fixed the kegerator! Happy brewing everyone!

Let me start by apologizing to all of our followers. We will not have beer this Wednesday and I know that I promised beer for the masses in my last post. We have had a slew of problems and fixes between last brew night and this upcoming brew night. First, we discovered our trusty kegerator stopped working. The fan that blows the cold air produced by the coils froze up on us. So we ordered a new one which will be in Wednesday, hopefully. Next, we had to find an alternative way to lager the Oktoberfest we brewed up two Friday’s ago. Jamie and I finally stepped it up and bought a two stage digital thermostat that will regulate our brewdudes refrigerator. Lastly, we decided to age our Wit for a week before we serve it to our fans. So next Wednesday will be the day for everyone to come out, for real this time. Now, for the folks that don’t like to read about my boring rants on all the hard work that goes into brewing up a brewery, here are some pictures for y’all to look at

The weather held out and we were able to brew up our new and improved IPA. Our new recipe has over 30 pounds of grain and close to a pound of hops. This one should be a drastic difference from our old recipe. Even with a massive grain bill stacked against us, we were able to do the impossible and not boil over despite having 14.84 gallons of wort in the kettle… and we have proof.

Thanks to Neal and his gang for coming out in support and bringing his refractometer to test out. I have to say though, you can’t go wrong with the trusty hydrometer… I would also like to thank Tyler for stepping up to the plate and purchasing a case of finely crafted ales for us to try from Total Wine.

For those of you trying to understand why we do what we do, watch. I think it tells the story well.

“I Am A Craft Brewer” is a collaborative video representing the camaraderie, character and integrity of the American Craft Brewing movement. Created by Greg Koch, CEO of the Stone Brewing Co. and Chris & Jared of Redtail Media…and more than 35 amazing craft brewers from all over the country.