Naughty Nancy's Nut Brown Ale

The feds turned the original drawing down, so this was slightly altered from the first submission (yes I know!) Sorry it's been so long since posting. Please visit the Manchester Brewing Fans! page on Facebook for more up to the moment info.

Whoops!

We've got a new website, over at Manchester Brewing! As usually happens, I forgot to post for a few months. The Studly Monk is aging well. I'm planning a new edition soon, which will have a higher ABV and more orange.

The John Thomas Red and Conspiracy Theory Oatmeal Stout are in the tank. We have a bottling machine on the way, so hopefully sometime this week these two will get into bottles, then become available the following week. The Alt Cntrl Delete is due after that.

Notes on the names:

The John Thomas Red is a very Monty Python kind of name. See if you can guess whose photo that is on the label! We're kind of fond of bad jokes around here, doncha know.

The Conspiracy Theory Oatmeal Stout features two men, one of whom is saying "Did you hear about Building 7?" to the other. Of course, Building 7 is the third World Trade Center tower to collapse on September 11, 2001. It fell down even though it hadn't been hit by a plane. It might have been on fire, or maybe not. There are videos showing police telling bystanders that the building was going to come down, and moving them away from the building. Building 7 was ignored by the 911 Commission. See 911truth.org for more details. Oddly, everyone believes there was a conspiracy that led to 911. The only disagreement is who, exactly, was responsible. That President Roosevelt knew in advance of the Pearl Harbor attack has been settled since 2000, when listening post data from the South Pacific became available and unclassified. The government still won't cop to that one, either...yet.

The Alt Control Delete is one of my favorite labels. It's seriously geeky. The Alt form of beer (a Northern German style) is one of my favorites, and it's damn hard to find a good one hereabouts.

The Naughty Nancy's Nut Brown Ale was rejected by the Feds. We're going to clean her up a bit and re-submit.

We're also working on a deal to bring t-shirts of all our labels out, plus some other swag. Stay tuned on that one. You can get the original OMFG shirt design, and the Kombat Ale, on the Manchester Brewing site right now.

Derek Cochrane has left us for the bright lights of a landscaping career. Jason Knoblaugh is filling in at the assistant brewer helm.

New photo

This photo appeared in a forum online and I asked the photographer, Mike B, if we could use it. The title is "Liberty Paraphrenalia" and has one of our Konkord Kombat Ales on the front, among other fun things. Kids: don't forget, alcohol and Uzis don't mix, unless your parents aren't home.

Gitcher Space Beer, or not...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/03/content_10447483.htm

So if it won't be for sale in the next year, can we just buy it on Ebay?

Open House

We had a very short notice Open House Saturday, and the place was jammed to the gills with Free Staters, Brew Free or Die members, and Concord homebrewers. We sold a few cases of beer and folks got to sample the Koncord Kombat Ale as well as the Censored Imperial Blonde. We will be going round to stores Monday with samples, expect a list online at www.manchesterbrewing.com!

It was a fun day but a grueling one that lasted from 6 am to about 10:30 pm when we cleaned up.

Our first beer! Yay!

The first beer on our menu is the Koncord Kombat Ale. We received our label approvals Friday morning and ordered the labels for the Kombat ale as well as the Censored Imperial Blonde, which is in the tank.

Slumming at the Barley House

"That'll be $5.25" said the bartender after he poured my bottle of hefeweisen into a large glass. A bit more than the Black and Tan I'd started with, but it's a 20 ounce beer so....he turned around: "at least, it was $5.25 two weeks ago, now it's $8.25". I'm not sure what Miss Manners would say about spitting a full glass of partially digested beer on bar staff, but fortunately good breeding and a keen dislike of arrest caused me to re-think my first impulse.

Needless to say, that was my last beer. I was sitting next to Paul Davis, a real parliamentary workhorse who's got lots of painful experience dealing with the brutal infighting common to fraternal organizations; Paul is starting a new micro somewhere in New Hampshire. I'll say where when I remember or Paul tells me.

So, Paul held forth like a champion, a veritable William Jennings Bryan of the beer table, for many hours. Finally, just before losing conciousness, blood burst from my ears and I fell to the floor, crawling away to the restroom to bandage my appendages. I only hope somebody recorded the performance for posterity because, Praise Jesus, I have no clue or memory of what was said.

After that, some of us went over to the office and sampled what we had on tap until we had to go forth in search of burritos. It was a great time, let's do that again!

Smacked Down by The Man!

The TTB rejected all of our labels! One had a flag over the capitol; it was an American flag but that's not allowed---so we put a Hammer and Sickle where the stars go, and that's ok. Also, we used OMFG! on another label, and the government decided that was obscene, even though we protested that it meant Oh My Fairy Godmother and told them we were sticking to that story. So now it says "Censored" over the OMFG, and people tell me they find that funnier. We'll have the original versions of both labels on the t-shirts, of course. The third label was just a font size issue, but they were ok with the art.