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Sorry, No Dirt News This Week

5/25/2016

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Whoa golly hot tamale has this been one heckin' dang of a week! Things got off to a hot start when we got our spanky-danky fresh-ass new taster glasses for when we serve up some tasty flights (which will happen eventually, I promise)! Then things got hot in a much more literal sense when we brewed some beer.
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That's right.
​Yes indeedy, after going through so many hoops and hurdles that a bunch of you out there in Internet Land probably started wondering if we were kidding about the whole "intending to brew beer" thing,* we finally (finally!) fired up our kettles for real! We've got some details below, Q&A style, but for now you should probably just feast your eyes on these here photos so that you can get yourself properly riled up to feast your mouth on our beers:
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It's showtime!
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Water.
Malt.
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Hops.
Yeast.
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Wort? Wort!
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Jimbo exuberantly shoveling spent grain out of the mash tun and definitely not getting a whole bunch of it in her boots, that's for sure.
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Our heat exchanger and aeration stone.
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While that does appear to be a Home Depot bucket full of Legos on the floor, the truth is much more boring.
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Basking in the glory of our gravity reading (dear lord was this a sight for sore eyes/hands/backs).
What beers did you brew?
As we mentioned previously, we wanted to start with some one-off batches to fine-tune our equipment and processes before we start in on our flagships. So for our first forays into the wide world of beer, we went with Honey & Hops (IPA) and Bone Smasher (Session IPA).**

When will these beers be ready?
If the initial batches meet our Quality Standards, we hope to have beer out in the wild within a week or two. If they do not meet our Quality Standards, expect beer around the time that you no longer hear sobbing coming from our building. 

Will your taproom be open once that happens?
I wish! But, unfortunately, not yet. We're bummed too.

So... when WILL you be open to the public?
Good question! That's really up to the contractors working on the outside of our building and/or the building department, who has some sort of fixation on making sure that people can get in and out of our building safely. So in other words, we still can't say, but things are moving along out there, which is something. 

If I can't get them in your taproom, where can I drink these beers?
That's... also a good question, actually. We're gonna be draft-only for a while, so the most general answer is "bars and/or restaurants," but we haven't narrowed it down much further than that. I'll spare you the boring details as to why,*** but suffice to say we're gonna start schleppin' samples and makin' awkward sales calls as soon as we've surely got suds to sling! So rest assured - you'll know where our beer is pouring roughly as soon as we do.
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* Hi Mom!
** We were briefly tempted to call one of them "First Draft." We resisted.
*** In short, we wanted to make sure we had beer (nearly) in hand before we started making a lot of promises about having beer available by a certain date. We've been a bit... overly optimistic about our opening timeline in the past, and we'd rather not look like chumps as a result of that. 
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Always With the Jibba Jabba 'Round Here

5/18/2016

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Is it that time of the week again? The time when we ramble about construction and dirt and chemical burns, all under the pretense that all this nonsense is leading toward us being able to make beer for your mouth?* It sure is!

And things are indeed movin' along - the location that formerly housed our dirt hole/pile is now a fancy new loading dock! It may not sound like much, but we're pretty psyched to be able to use the front door to the building again.
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If this won't meet code I don't know what will.
Admittedly, that's not the earth-shattering news we were hoping to deliver this week,** but it's sure as heck bringin' us closer to that goal! Our yeast is stocked, our equipment is prepped and tested and ready to rock (and we got us some fancy new chemical burns to prove it) - we are ready. We're sure as heck gonna make some dang ol' beer before you know it!***
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And this is where you'll get that beer from. 
While we're waiting for the final go-ahead from the city, we got us a Sensory Training Kit from the Siebel Institute to sharpen up the ol' palates! We want to make the best damn beer that we possibly can,**** and being able to detect and eliminate any unwanted flavors or aromas in our products is a pretty important part of Brewing Quality Beer (depending on how strictly you define that, you could argue that it's the only part of brewing quality beer).

​Anyway, the kit comes with a bunch of vials, each containing a different off-flavor, that you crack open and pour into some light beer which you then use to emotionally scar yourself. And oh man, we did we ever take a few for the team: the smell of isovaleric acid (AKA'ed as cheesy old hops) is still haunting our nostrils. Education!
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Bud Lights... for science!
* It will happen. At some point. I promise. 
** The news we were hoping to deliver was more along the lines of "come drink this beer we made! ... In several weeks once it's ready."

*** Or at least that's what we keep telling ourselves.
**** Because you 
deserve​ the best
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Ever Inching Forward

5/11/2016

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​Hello hello! With our little rain delay outta the way, work is pickin' back up out in our parking lot/dirt pile and things are startin' to look pretty durn good.
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It even vaguely resembles a deck!
Equally importantly, we're makin' our last steps towards total readiness for that first brewday, and this time around that means orderin' up some yeast! Now, it may not sound too exciting that we "ordered some ingredients;" but in addition to being the most important part of the brewing process, yeast has the shortest shelf life of any of the ingredients, which means that brewing* is imminent! Probably!
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Our yeast company wanted to make sure you weren't left wondering about whether or not they like fermentation.
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Yeasties!
What's more, our friends over at Original Gravity announced this season's concert lineup, and we're thrilled to say we're part of it! We's pleased as punch, we is - they've got a cool program and we're stoked to see what we'll be able to bring to it (and/or what they've got in store for us). For those of you not in the know, it's a concert series that pairs local composers with local breweries, which means we'll get to Get Weird in the brewhouse and make a beer to go with the music that'll be played. That sorta thing is right up our alley, so it should be a hoot!
Now, those of you who have been following our progress for a while might know that we tend to be a bit... hesitant to make promises about when we'll be open (mostly because we've been consistently and repeatedly wrong about when that would be**), and that's still a valid point - this ain't real until we have permits in our hands and beer in our tanks. But thankfully, OG is aware of our Situation and is willing to roll the dice, so we'll see!
* Or bitter disappointment, but let's not think about that one for now.
** And we've been largely ineffective at speeding up the timeline, as we're relying fairly heavily on some people who are hellbent on doing work at their own damn pace, thankyouverymuch.
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Onward and (Arguably) Upward

5/4/2016

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Heyo! It's the blogginest time of the week, once again! Dirt progress has continued at a steady clip for most of the past week,* but this lovely weather we've been having lately has thrown a bit of a monkey wrench into things (it's about time we hit another unexpected delay; we start to get nervous if things go smoothly for more than a week at a time). In short: there's more concrete to be poured,** and that can't be done until things are reasonably dry in the sky.
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No longer completely a dirt hole, the deck/ramp is really starting to look like a top-notch mud patch!
So what does that mean for us? Well, nothing new, really. We were planning/hoping to start brewing in the near/immediate future (and we were hoping to be able to open to the public in the near-but-not-so-immediate future, but that's a bit more of a longshot), and that's been pushed back a bit (hopefully a very small bit, but who can say). But that's ok! We're making good use of the extra time by obsessively preparing for our impending First Brewday and - almost as importantly - making sure we spend our every waking moment panicking and frantically second-guessing every decision we've made up to this point. What fun!
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In brighter news, our bar foot rail arrived! We gon' stain this up real good for your feets to stomp on. 
*They even did some dirt work on the weekend! That's unheard of around here!
**We think. We aren't exactly "in the loop" here, but hopefully that's the last step before we can finally, mercifully, stop talking about dirt all the time. 
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      • Don't Go!
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      • Embrace of Death
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      • Estate
      • Everything is Peachy
      • Exiled From the Abyss
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      • Fancy Pants
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      • Firekeeper
      • Fixation on Red Ale
      • Float Along
      • Fool's Paradise
      • Four Star Smoothie
      • Funky Life
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      • The Gargoyle
      • Get Proud and Get Loud!
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      • I am the Island
      • I See a Dankness
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      • Jimbo Jaliper
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      • Mo'Biscuits!
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      • Mr. Buttons
      • Multihead
      • Mystery Shack
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      • Nerd Farm
      • NeverNude
      • Nick
      • Barrel Aged No Light Ever
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      • No Puns, Just Fun
      • Nug
      • Ocean
      • Oh My!
      • Oink!
      • Ol' Orange Eyes
      • On-On
      • Orange Red Dead
      • Organ Meats
      • Out of Bounds
      • Ozzy
      • Part Deux
      • Passion (Fruit) Project
      • Pat Signal
      • Pepite
      • Picnic Time
      • Pink Smoothie
      • Pizza Time!
      • Play Date
      • Pobody's Nerfect
      • Porcupine
      • Pounder
      • P.R.I.D.E.
      • Pre-Boil Dave
      • Pride and Pomegranate
      • Pretend It's Summer
      • The Protector
      • Pullover
      • Purple Smoothie
      • Quaddles
      • The Quadless Leg Monster
      • R.B.G.
      • Rakau
      • Rebello Fellow
      • Redeemer
      • The Royal Sampler
      • Ruby Rye
      • Rufus
      • Sabrobro
      • SaBRU
      • Sachem's Ale
      • ... Sandwiches!
      • Sato
      • Scatterbrau
      • Serendipity
      • Seven Xs
      • Shadows
      • Shelby
      • Shlem
      • Showdown
      • Sip Time
      • Sir Wallington
      • Skeleton Key
      • Smaltster
      • Snail the Pale
      • So Nude
      • Soiree
      • Something Brewed
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      • Spirals
      • Splorge!
      • Springtime Lies
      • Spruce Moose
      • Squash Everything
      • Squash Your Enemies
      • Stag
      • Stick the Landing
      • Stomper
      • Stone Valley
      • Strut!
      • Summerween
      • Summit
      • Summoner
      • Sunday Plans
      • Sunken Wit
      • Super Jeff
      • Teamaker
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      • Thrasher
      • TLA
      • Trial Run
      • To Have and to Hold (My Beer)
      • Treasure Hunt
      • Tres Brujas
      • Triple Pearl
      • Two To Mango
      • Unholy Alliance
      • Uni-Dog
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      • Vacant Throne
      • Versterven
      • Voyager
      • Vye-Olent World
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      • Wasted Life
      • Weird Moon
      • Welcome to the Bad Future
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