"Where's the beer?"

"When can we buy some beer?"

"You guys really do make beer, right?"

Questions like these are all too common these days. Despite our efforts there is no beer ready for sale yet.

There are three ways of doing things: The right way, the wrong way, and the Uncommon Brewers way-- which looks exactly like the wrong way, but works for some combination of luck and sheer willpower.

Unfortunately we can't will carbonation into warm beer. A misconfiguration of our brite tank lead to a rapid and unfortunate depressurizing of our first batch headed to market. The Uncommon Brewers way of carbonating does work, but far too slowly to be realistic. We're picking up a chilling unit and starting over again with the carbonations the right way.

The loud booming that you hear is the sound of two brewers banging their heads against a brite tank.

Many thanks to the guys at Cask Systems for their help in getting us up and running. The canning system works flawlessly. More so, at least, than our slightly under-carbonated beer.

It's not a fast process. Just two cans are filled at a time. There are some long days of slowly passing cans along the line in our future. The results, we believe, are well worth it.

We'll be releasing a few cases onto the market as samples of what's to come. Check back for details about where to find them in the greater Bay Area.

Regular visitors to the website know that it's updated infrequently at best. This is in no way a reflection of our interest in promoting ourselves. It's just that we're spending so much time running in circles down here at the brewery that we don't really remember the Internet until someone emails us and says, "Update your damn blog."

So here it is, updated.

There will be no more running in circles. We no longer have the room to run in circles. There are 124,000 cans in our way, stacked floor to ceiling through much of the downstairs area. That's twenty pallets, each stacked nine feet high.

The mind boggles.

The first cans will be filled on Tuesday. We'll be selling our Siamese Twin Ale in both cans and kegs by midweek. Check back in for details on where you can find our first public batch.