Expanding hours

This will be our first ever Thursday and Friday.  Expanding our hours beyond the weekend really makes this whole establishment feel much more legitimate.  It also means we really need to work on our processes and  procedures and get all of our internal workings inline.  So that's a lot of work.  But it helps a lot that we have gotten extremely lucky with having a great staff.  Thanks to everyone that helped get us this far. 

BEER STATUS:
We have about 300 gallons fermenting right now.  Right now we have a nut brown ale that has completed fermenting (contradicting myself here a little) and is starting conditioning.  I really doubt it will be ready by this weekend.  We are trying to slow down and do things correctly.  But definitely by next weekend.  We also have a oatmeal stout that will be ready by next weekend and will start conditioning this weekend.  And we have another Oktoberfest which just started fermenting. 
We will be making a light lager and also more hefeweizen this weekend. 

Sooo, stay tuned, same horse time, same horse channel.....

Late night brewing is lonely. Luckily there is no shortage of beer.

Brews, TV, and Music

Many people asked us the past two weekends, where's the tv.  We now have an answer. Its above the mantel in the dining room.  The TV has been mounted and looks great.  Hopefully by this sunday we'll be able to tune in some games for you all.

More importantly, at least to me, we now have our fermenters all full.  That means 4 new beers soon to be in our taps.  This coming weekend we'll have our famous hefeweizen. It will actually be ready and on tap.  This is particularly exciting because its our brewer's favorite beer.  Still in the fermenters will be a belgian ale, a trappist, and an IPA.  Give them 2-4 weeks and they'll be ready too.

Also this saturday we'll have the Short Hill Mountain boys.  So make sure to stop by and check them out.



Exciting times !!

Thanks - and news

I want to offer a special thanks to everyone that came out to our first day opening and probably our busiest day of the year during Lovettsville's Oktoberfest this past saturday.    It was a great time with live music thanks to Chris Vail and super fresh beer.  After having met about 300 of our new friends we're proud to be a part of Lovettsville. We still moving in and will be changing a lot of things in the upcoming weeks both in the way of decorations and beers but we're already having a great time.

COMING SOON

I know saturday was a lot of fun but we're just getting warmed up.  We have a hefeweizen fermenting now and will be making a belgian ale in the next couple days.  This weekend we'll be making a trappist beer (despite none of us being a monk)  and yes yes, by popular demand very soon we'll have a IPA and a porter.

NEW FEATURE

During our first weekend we received many many people asking,,,, where's the tv.  So yes, in the very near future we'll have a gi-normous ( is that a word ) giant TV.   It will make a great place to curl up and watch ,, well anything.

Furthermore

I guess I'm feeling talkative today,,,We were mentioned on the Northern Virginia Magazine website.  See below link:
http://www.northernvirginiamag.com/tag/mad-horse-brew-pub/

rock and roll

We are 100 percent approved to make beer!!!!!!!

Boom

Good news.  We passed plumbing and electrical final inspections today.   I am so relieved.  Perhaps I'll sleep tonight.  Probably not.  I'll just think of something else to stress about.   No worries, we'll move through the rest fast and starting bringing you all great beer really soon.

Bar design

I have received feedback from the project team that our design is lacking some cohesive vision.  To that end, I am posting this architectural layout that it might better pull the team together.

Here is the high end artist rendition of the bar installation to be performed this weekend.  If you are a novice and aren't experienced reading architectural blueprints then this probably won't be helpful to you.  But for the trained eye this should be very helpful.