The 3rd annual Winter Beer Carnival is being expanded to offer more beers and the games you love. This year we’ve moved to Atlantic Station giving us more room for more games!

Sample more than 100 beers including traditional favorites, premium craft beers and an assortment of the best winter brews – try them all and discover your favorite!

Step right up and try your hand at all the midway games you love and our twist on some carnival classics. Unlimited games are included in your ticket price!

You can buy tickets here – they’re $40 in advance and $50 at the door. Hope to see some of you! Come say hey!

Monday Night Brewing is a startup. And we love our own. This month, we’re sponsoring Atlanta Startup Drinks at Ormsby’s. What is Atlanta Startup Drinks?

Atlanta Startup Drinks is Atlanta’s premier meetup for people interested in entrepreneurship and technology. Every month, we bring together an interesting and diverse group of people, to meet, talk, make contacts, share war stories, and generally have fun. The events are informal, social, and free. Our members include many of the area’s most active entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, and others interested in the local startup scene.

If you’d like to attend and talk startups, feel free to join in. The first 50 folks will get a free Monday Night pint glass – and our Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale will be on tap for your drinking pleasure.

Date
February 7, 2012

Time
5:00pm until 9:30(ish) — drop in anytime

Address
Ormsby’s, 1170 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta GA 30318

Parking
There is plenty of free parking in the White Provisions parking deck.

Perhaps the most interesting statistic to me?

58% “Go” during the game so they don’t miss the commercials

58% is over half, for you math idiots out there. I also find myself torn – I love football, but as a marketing dork, I also love Super Bowl ads. My ideal scenario would be to wear Oops I Crapped My Pants during the Super Bowl so I could have 4 hours of uninterrupted television. No bathroom breaks, no holding it. Just the good stuff.

Don’t judge me.

We interrupt our normally hard-hitting journalism to bring you a story that will warm your heart and fill your glass. According to Denver Westword, four small Denver brewers all ordered from the same fermenter supplier to save on freight costs.

Freight costs can be pretty steep, depending on where you’re shipping from. We have had to pay over $1000 just to move a few pallets of kegs around. You add those little trips up, and it becomes a meaningful part of your business. Shipping won’t make or break us, but it does get its own line item in our accounting software. From Denver Westword:

In a show of solidarity (not to mention some penny-wise fiscal management) four small brewers are putting in an order for new brewing equipment and tanks in a move that will save them all a chunk of change and help them expand. Copper Kettle, Renegade, Strange Brewing and Caution are all buying from Premier Stainless Systems, a San Diego-based brewery system designer and manufacturer that supplies hundreds of beer makers around the country.

“Premier said there was no difference on shipping whether we bought four tanks or eight, so we decided to coordinate this together,” says Copper Kettle co-owner Jeremy Gobien. So, instead of paying $1,500 a piece, each brewery will only spend about $400.

Sure, they’re saving a few hundred bucks. But I think the bigger news here is the continued trend of small breweries working together, like Avery and Russian River’s Collaboration Not Litigation Ale. This is an industry like no other.

Drink up.

Image Credit: Facebook

So there we were at a craft beer tweet-up at Edgewood Corner Tavern, minding our own business. Drinking some beers, being dorky. The usual.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a strange girl walks up with a box. We immediately thought “Oh crap, anthrax.” But it was worse.

Free cupcakes, infused with our beer, Drafty Kilt Scotch Ale. We had been talking to Kristen of Eye Candy Cake Company on Twitter. She mentioned she might have a surprise for us, and she was right. These things look delicious. But the question remains… how did they taste?

Beer-infused cupcakes also taste delicious. A chocolate cupcake is the perfect complement for our Drafty Kilt, which is brewed with a little bit of chocolate malt. Kristen, we’re impressed. We want you to know that we approve of putting beer in cupcakes. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.

When we formulate our beer recipes, one of things we keep in mind is how our beers will pair with foods. As a company that stands for the weeknights, we realize that a lot of our beer will be consumed with food. It’s cool to see people experimenting with our beers – we’re always available for taste tests!

Sidenote: Option 3 was developed with the driver of our vehicle in mind, Gordon. He’s a fan of wizards, and like any craft beer loving man’s man, thought a pink unicorn might add a little “badass” to the car. True, there’s no Monday Night branding on the car per se, but maybe it’s worth it to give Gordon the chariot of his dreams.

We have the opportunity to wrap a 2006 Chevy HHR with our logo. “Opportunity” is perhaps an optimistic word, given that the HHR has been discontinued. Chevy claims that it’s because people weren’t buying them. Hopefully they’ll still buy beer that’s advertised ON them.

Still, we aren’t the kind of guys that look a gift horse in the headlights. So we’ve whipped up a design for our new chariot. We need to go to the printer soon, but we can still make some tweaks, so please let us know what you think!

P.S. Should we put anything on the roof? Do helicopter pilots and truck drivers deserve our love?