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So, since we are coming out with Skinny Cow V 2.0 and we still have quite a bit of Skinny Cow V 1.0 left on hand we are left with a conundrum about what to do... The answer - rebrand! We'll continue with Skinny Cow V 1.0 since it's so popular among a ton of people as "Karma". What comes...

Ok, sorry. I haven't had much time for ANYTHING lately. I suppose that's a good sign. The brewery has been busy. I'll try to sum up our first couple months... Consistency is hard! Our I.P.A. is ridiculously popular among people who are not huge fans of I.P.A.s. This is because it's more...

Will get back to that question. Just saw it this morning. Been busy. And I have to get to the brewery this morning to make a blackberry pale ale. Licensing wasn't too bad. You simply need to communicate with the state and local agents. Know what they want and be prepared. I'll go into...

We have two kegs going out of town tonight to Helena Montana at Miller's Crossing. They'll be featuring Muddy Creek Chocolate Stout and Dirty Blonde Ale. Basically they'll be covering both ends of our beer spectrum. Meanwhile, back home we're featuring a couple of groups at the brewery...

Alright, so the next phase of the whole brewery thing is commencing. We've been open just about a month now and the taproom is beginning to settle into a regular pattern. That means we can pretty much predict how much beer we are going through in a week give or take so I can feel safe saying...

That is correct. People who know me generally attribute the Napoleon quote to me as I was a French major in college.

Well Jinks, I see you have a couple of the growlers there. On the back you'll see three quotes. Each of the owners selected a quote to add to the back. One of our unique little twists with the brewery, I guess. You get to guess which quote I picked to add to the growler. The regulars...

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Bob, we have a local rancher come and pick up the grain on weekends. (We brew on Saturday and occasionally on Sunday.) He mixes it with his regular feed and gives it to the cattle. So our brewing assistants take the spent grain out of the mash tun, haul it up to the containers out back of the...

I hope you enjoy them Jinks. We'd appreciate it if you'd give us an impartial review on Facebook and untappd.com. Did you try a Dirty Muddy Cow? (Our three level black and tan with Dirty Blonde, Muddy Creek and Skinny Cow?)

St. Patty's Day in Butte. Strap in! I'll post pictures if I manage to get any worth posting.

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Been quiet for awhile. We've been getting ready for tomorrow. St. Patty's day in Butte is quite a spectacle. So far things have gone well. Good reviews and good customer returns. I'm getting ready to add another beer on tap and I expect by the weekend we'll open up our first accounts with 2...

I'm updating a couple of my spreadsheets. Particularly my bittering worksheet that helps me figure out the amount of hops to add to my large batches as well as my soft-drink sheet that helps me manage scaling for the Root beer and lemonade. However, I am also working on the master spreadsheet...

I used to be an English Major a lifetime ago. It's difficult for me to write really really badly. (Though I still manage it often enough.)

That's quite a marathon read Goon. I hope you don't have a headache. We're up for our 2nd weekend. Ours first full week has been pretty good to us. My tasting crew is organized and I have a fellow in charge who's setting up a google-form for the team to fill out when they come and do the...

I had a very gratifying talk with a local brewer today. We have a fellow down the road who has won some medals for his beer. He and the an assistant brewer and the owners came in last night and had a couple pints and let us know that they enjoyed the products as they left. (Of course I knew...

Well, the tax man cometh... See all the fun and games comes with a price. You have to keep track of all the materials that go into your products including the hops. (It aint all about the water and malt!) Then you have to keep records of how much wort you produce for fermentation, how much...

We finished our opening weekend. It went very well to put it mildly. I think we went through somewhere in the zone of 16 full kegs. I'm not sure how many of the other 5 regular kegs are used now. So I say over the weekend we did somewhere in the zone of 8.5 to 10 bbls. Right now all the...

Let the mass beatings begin... The fermenters in all their hideous glory. Now, I know what you're thinking in picture 2 there... "IS THAT GUNK?" No. It's a plastic food grade nut used to bolt the valve into the bottom of the conical and it's covered with some silicone. (You can see another...