millstreambrewing.com

Yea, its been a grueling week of bottling. The low point was when the first truck didn’t show, and then when it arrived the next day, the trucker somehow got the truck stuck near the airport trying to turn around. We were all just shaking our heads thinking.. what else could go wrong? Finally he got the truck free by putting some chains underneath his tires to get traction (he was in a dip on the gravel and his wheels were sort of off the ground).

Now that we are done, we have another busy week ahead so that we have some beer for us! The first thing on the list is to get the Maifest made. I know May seems a long way off, but for lager beers its like just around the corner!

I spent that “waiting for the truck day” doing a project. I fixed our fax machine. For years we have had an old fax machine here with a cracked LCD. Since we recieve all of our faxes on the computer, I couldn’t really use that one as a back up because I could not set it to pick up after the computer picks up (in case the computer is shut down). I’m sure I could have in theory, but its really hard when you can’t see anything on the LCD screen. I bought another identical machine that was broken off ebay for 20$, and took it entirely apart. I removed the LCD and, then managed to hook it back up to our old machine by only half taking it apart. It really helped that I had the dissassembled machine to reference. To my joy, it works great! Here it at Millstream, old machines don’t get tossed out, we just keep fixing them. Apparently this philosophy goes beyond the beer making ones. I’m sure that this old HP fax 700 (circa 1985) will probably outlive most of the crappy combo machines being made today.

Our beer was featured last night at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City. A little late I know, but next time, ask for a Millstream!

We also have new long sleeve t-shirts in the sales room. They are all currently XL’s, but i’m sure we’ll have more sizes in soon. I think they are really snazzy!

And finally, after many, many requests, here are some cute cat pictures:

Here she is sleeping in her bed, which is an old coat I used to wear in the cellar:

As soon as the flash went off, she yawned at me:

She then rolled over and went back to sleep:

Nice to see ya Millie Millstream!