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Monday Night Mom Jeans hits Black Tie Series

Monday Night Mom Jeans has officially joined the brewery’s Black Tie Series.

The Black Tie Series is the brewery’s more “formal & fancy” line of beers. The Black Tie family features the likes of Great American Beer Festival medal winning Barrel Aged Continue Reading →

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Easily one of the brewery’s best. Monday Night Tears of My Enemies

Monday Night Tears of My Enemies debuts this month, part of the fanciest lineup in the Atlanta brewery’s arsenal – the Black Tie Series.

The Black Tie Series is home to beers like Mom Jeans, Georgian Imperial Stout, and the well-known Bourbon Barrel Drafty Kilt. The week of Valentine’s Day, it will be home to one more -Monday Night Tears of My Enemies.

RELATED: Monday Night’s New Sour Facility [PICS]

Does a scotch barrel milk stout do it for you? This “vindictive” milk stout picks up hints of smoke from the 18 year old scotch whisky barrels, and is finished with a touch of both vanilla and locally roasted Batdorf & Bronson coffee. Despite being a fantastic beer, it almost wasn’t even brewed.

Monday Night’s head brewer Peter Kiley saw a beautiful fusion of milk stout and the Macallan 18 year barrels the brewery recently acquired. A milk stout in coffee can be quite good. Throwing that beer into those sexy, hard-to-get scotch barrels? Fan-freaking-tastic. Unfortunately, Kiley found his vision didn’t have some of the powers that be salivating like he was. These barrels don’t show up at your doorstep everyday.

Perhaps even the best idea is met with a little resistance. Kiley pressed forward, and with good reason. Tears of My Enemies is an triumph for the budding brewer. Enemies starts with a burst of coffee and chocolate, and finishes silky, with smokey hints of the sexiness that is Maccallan 18. A bottle of that scotch will set you back nearly $250 dollars. Lucky for you, this creation is less than $20. If you ask us, it’s the best barrel-aged beer Monday Night has ever released. In the end, the name is pretty fitting for Kiley. Nothing worth doing is easy. You won’t find him gloating. You can taste it in ever sip.

There is nothing more sumptuous than the misfortune of your enemies. That dark, smoky taste of revenge takes over as it hits your lips, marching upon your tongue like an army towards certain victory…

Monday Night Tears of My Enemies will be a 22 ounce bottle release, the week of Valentine’s Day 2017. We suggest you track one of these down.

Style: Imperial Milk Stout (w/ Vanilla Beans, Coffee. Barrel Aged. Scotch Whisky.)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Debut: Week of Valentine’s Day 2017

9.3% ABV

Above: Monday Night’s head brewer Peter Kiley and his creation, Tears of My Enemies. Photo: Beer Street Journal

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Monday Night Brewing, Coming Soon

Monday Night is about to put you in the Friend Zone

Monday Night Friend Zone is coming the the brewery’s Clip-On Series.

When your brewery your is riddled with neckties and you have a one-off/experimental series, what do you call it? The Clip-On Series. Back in September of 2015, the first Clip-On beer appeared – Serrano Eye Patch Ale. The series has grown to include beers like Blood Orange Blind Pirate, Cinnamon Cocoa Drafty Kilt.

Soon you are about to be put in the “friend zone”. (Don’t act like you haven’t been there before.) At least this one has beer in it.

Monday Night Friend Zone is a “SMASH” pale ale, meaning Single Malt and Single Hop beer. In this case, the citrusy Mandarina Bavaria hop, and Pilsner malt.

Once she tells you that she “loves you like a brother,” you know you’ve been relegated to the Friend Zone. If that ever happens, and we hope it doesn’t, this is your beer.

A single light malt gives hints of honey to sweeten your day. Mandarina Bavaria hops lend an aroma of sweet orange peel to remind you that one day someone else will find you a-peel-ing.

Monday Night Friend Zone will a 12 ounce bottle and draft release. Perfect for drinking while you figure out the next target for your affections.

Style: Pale Ale
Hops: Mandarina Bavaria
Malt: Pilsner

Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Debut: TBA

6.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Monday Night Brewing, Brewery Expansions, Headlines

An inside look at Monday Night Brewing’s future sour brewery

Atlanta’s Monday Night Brewing is about to grow. We aren’t talking about distribution either. The brewery is adding a nearly $2 million dollar sour and wild ale facility on a massive urban redevelopment project known as the BeltLine. Honestly, it took the brewery’s fans a bit by surprise.

Monday Night co-founder Jonathan Baker tells Beer Street Journal that it was an idea that pretty much happened all at once. It’s no secret that sour and wild ales are on fire in the U.S. (it’s about time). The downside for a brewer that wants to brew more of the wild style, is the danger wild beer poses to your clean brewhouse. On top of that, you need lots of extra space for barrels to sit for months and years. Throw in the desire to spontaneously ferment things and you’ve solidified the need for a brand new facility.

We took a trip out to see where Monday Night is building the largest sour facility in the state. The location lies just four miles from downtown Atlanta right off of I-20, where the new sections of the Beltline are currently being constructed. Baker mentions the hunt for a sour facility yielded the warehouse space faster than they expected. When Monday Night found this place, it was hard to say no.

Below is a gallery of the space, pre-construction. Baker mentions dinosaur murals on the walls, big patio space, and a spot for a small orchard that will farm the wild yeast they need to do spontaneous fermentation in the brewery’s future coolship. The space is directly on the [future] Beltine, and will house a new brewhouse, indoor and outdoor tasting rooms, private event space, foudres, puncheons, and an expanded barrel aging.

Due to the time it takes to make quality sour/wild ales, expect a strong battery of kettle-soured beers when the facility comes online. There will be a few “clean” beers on tap to cover all tastes.

(Author Op-ED): Apart from being excited about the big expansion to the beer scene in Atlanta, Georgians have to take some action of their own in the meantime. The state’s laws surrounding breweries and beer sales are highly restrictive. It’s time to fight for your ability to buy a pint at a brewery in Georgia. Reach out to the Georgia Craft Brewer’s Guild for more information on ways to change these restrictive laws.

The yet-to-be-named facility (Baker is pushing for “The Crunkatorium”) should be pouring beers by summer, 2017.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Monday Night Brewing, Headlines

Monday Night Brewing is opening a sour & wild brewery on Atlanta’s Beltline

Atlanta’s Monday Night Brewing is building a second location inside the city limits. This new location will focus on sour/wild and barrel-aged beers.

The idea of this project is built on the success of the muti-medal winning, Bourbon Barrel Drafty Kilt. The barrel-aged scotch ale has won gold in the past at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. Additionally, recent release Laissez-Faire, a wine barrel-aged wheat wine, has won silver at the World Beer Cup. Both are fantastic beers, but limited due to space limitations at their first location.

The second location will be built on Atlanta’s massive urban redevelopment project know as the BeltLine, and will be the primary location for Monday Night’s expanding sour and barrel-aged program. The space is on the southwest corridor of the Beltline currently under construction, part of the Lee + White Development. The new space will have:

  • Wild and open fermentation capability
  • Tasting room
  • Patio for drinking
  • Urban orchard to aid wild fementation
  • Large barrel room
  • Very bike friendly

The new space will be 22,000 square feet, a full 2,000 feet more than their current Atlanta location. Monday Night expects the space to be open in summer, 2017

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Monday Night Brewing, Coming Soon

Monday Night Dad Bod Black Saison coming to “Clip On” series

Monday Night Dad Bod Black Saison will join the brewery’s “Clip-On” Series in October.

In September of 2015, The Atlanta, Georgia based brewery debuted a one-off series they call the  “Clip-On Series.” Beers featuring in the lineup are fun reinventions of core Monday Night releases. Examples include: Cinnamon Cocoa Drafty Kilt, and Blood Orange Blind Pirate.

Monday Night Dad Bod is a black saison, and incidentally, not a spin on a core beer like the releases mentioned above. The brewery touts this release as “Dark, herbal, and super smooth,” thanks to Keemun black tea used in the brewing process.

RELATED: Monday Night Mom Jeans

Dad Bod isn’t just a beer, it’s a state of mind. Dad Bod means working out just enough not to have to buy new pants, and spending the rest of the time working on your drinking muscles. Our dark saison has a mind nose with hints of espresso and citrus. A peppery flavor gives this down-to-earth beer the edge needed to attract a mate and nothing more.

Monday Night Dad Bod Black Saison will be a 12 ounce bottle and draft offering.

Style: Saison
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. One-off release.
Debut: October, 2016

6% ABV

Image: Monday Night Brewing

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, Monday Night Brewing

Rare Barrels. Crazy Beers. Monday Night Garage Club

The first time I saw anyone at Monday Night Brewing, it was in a garage. Specifically, Jonathan Baker’s garage.

For years, local Atlanta folks saw first hand, the making of a brewery. 31 gallons at a time on a Sabco set-up. In that garage, Drafty Kilt, and Eye Patch were born. Yeah, it took a little reigning in. Brewing, isn’t easy. Well… making a good beer isn’t easy. Fermenting alcohol is actually simple, if you don’t give a shit how it tastes. Monday Night cared from the beginning. Perhaps to an insane degree.

From that garage, the brewery started contract brewing, ultimately leading up to the necktie laden, multi-million dollar facility found on Atlanta’s Westside.

Now, ever so quietly. Every so discreetly. (Or perhaps not so discreetly) comes the Garage Club.

This is for the beer nerds as much as the beer loyal. You see, every single brewer needs fun time. Experiment time. Shits and giggles time. The problem is, those experiments, one-offs, and rare barrels can’t be produced in large quantities. Hell, it wouldn’t even make sense if you did.

Garage Club.

Two words for the resourceful. Two words for those that love Monday Night. But want more.

Monday Night’s crazy good hazelnut imperial stout, aged in rare Macallan 18 barrels. (We are drinking this beer now, and sipping as slow as possible because when this beer is gone, we will cry.) Quads in wine. Bourbon Drafty Kilt. You get the idea…

One-off beers, fun barrels, brewer experiments. These are the things Jonathan Baker spoke about with us this afternoon.

You can join too. That is… If you know how.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Monday Night Brewing, New Releases

Monday Night Mom Jeans hits Black Tie Series

Monday Night Mom Jeans has officially joined the brewery’s Black Tie Series.

The Black Tie Series is the brewery’s more “formal & fancy” line of beers. The Black Tie family features the likes of Great American Beer Festival medal winning Barrel Aged Drafty Kilt, and most recently, Georgian Imperial Stout.

This beer is built for function, not fashion. Effervescent with toasty malt overtones and a delicate hop finish, this dry Belgian-style pale ale was aged in the barrels of the mother of all suburban beverages. Fresh chardonnay barrels lend light vanilla notes and a pleasant tartness to the flavor.

Fill your social calendar with playdates and your shopping cart with Lunchables, so at the end for the day, you deserve a Mom Jeans. Heck, split it with your neighbor so that you can get some conversation with an adult.

Monday Night Mom Jeans will be a 22 ounce bottle offering. Now on shelves.

Style: Belgian-style Pale Ale (Wine Barrel Aged.)
Hops: East Kent Goldings
Malts: Pilsner, Vienna, Munich, Biscuit, Aromatic

Debut: May, 2016

7% ABV

Read more: Monday Night Black Tie Series

by Reid Ramsay