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So we're doing something new and fun tonight. This is our "Ladies Night" and we're doing "Build a Beer". We have 5 different fruit extracts and a couple bittering extracts that we are going to make available to our customers for our "Build a Beer" nights. Those folks who want to can request...

This is Heather Lingle, She and her band will be playing at our anniversary party. She's a good friend and one of our top musicians. Wonderful performer and one of those few folks who sounds absolutely extraordinary live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7llMDcOfrc

Well, we're approaching our 1 year anniversary party. On Saturday we will have been officially open for 1 year. I'll try to post some Photos from the celebration. We should also have our new pilot system shipping out sometime at the end of this week. It's a small version of the new brewing...

It kinda does, doesn't it? *smile.

Couple of our handles at a local restaurant as well...

I don't know of you've seen these yet... Our labels. Crazy Beautiful Pale Ale and Storm the Door Vanilla Porter.

You know what's fun? Going back and re-reading these threads myself from the start. Holy Crap! The **** I didn't know. Run! Run for God's Sake! ;-) Just kidding. It's hard work and it costs money, and time and relationships. I noticed that I started this thread talking about how my...

Well, Techy - it's taken a year to get the back end infrastructure in place for it. ;- ) The lead developer is a architect / emerging technologies lead for HP. He gets to play with all the fun up and coming stuff and pick the brains of people who have opportunities to dabble both...

Regarding Peyton Manning and InBev...

Well, I don't necessarily promise much in the way of glamour, but I have been faithful in my transparency. I don't pull any punches. I figure if folks want to know what it's really like - they have a right. Soon we'll have our 1 year anniversary and we're really really hoping to launch our...

That is another reason we wanted to go with this system. My nutjob partner (said with love *smile) has 10 beers on tap. That makes us one of the most diverse taprooms in the state going away, but it puts SO much pressure on us downstairs to keep them stocked in beer. The new system should...

To summarize: We brew somewhere in the zone of 13.5 bbls a week with our current system. In terms of labor, that requires about 4 hours prep time, 3 hours post-cleaning, and a minimum of 28 man hours for brewing. (Ya...) So we're looking at somewhere in the zone of 35 man hours just for the...

Hey folks. How's it going. I should clarify. We have some pretty unique things going on at Muddy Creek and the new system will benefit us in quite a few ways. It IS smaller. There's no getting around it. However with that system we will be able to brew quite a bit more beer and we'll be...

Sorry guys. Been busy. We did have a bit of a rush over the holidays. We also sent off to a competition in Oregon. Unfortunately we did not medal, however we enjoyed the opportunity to compete again. We are once more expanding the brewhaus. We're buying some new equipment and I plan to...

And this is the part I hate. We had a brewer leave. Kat - our first employee moved to Seattle. We're a little sad, but the world continues to spin. So we had to hire a new brewing assistant. I'll have to go through the process of teaching somebody the ins and outs of the brewery. We had 7...

Well there ya go then.

So co-own. 50-50 takes some financial pressure off you but gives you control over the brewing side. ;- ) Sorry, shouldn't be throwing extra stuff at you right now. I know you have alot to deal with. On another note... what if you just tell folks the beer is pasteurized!

That's nice but I'm worried about you right now. Punity and I have spent quite a bit of PM minutes talking about the various issues that small brewery guys like us have to work with on a day to day basis. We have fairly different situations but there is some common ground there that allows us...

Hey, we're starting to get out into the world! We've begun distributing around the state a bit. Exciting stuff. You can now find Muddy Creek beer in neighboring Missoula, Helena and Bozeman. Soon we'll expand into Great Falls and Billings as well. I'll get a list of the places were in from...

Another weekend has come and gone. So I can't quite figure out to track the migratory patterns of craft beer drinkers. If somebody ever gets around to tranq'ing, tagging and monitoring one of these critters for a few years I'd sure like to see the data. last week we were really slow. Course...