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Al_4_ISU

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  1. Sobriety hasn’t hit the Midwest, and I’m not holding my breath that it will.
  2. Ten Wasp Brewing, Sumner, Iowa. A fucking gem in the middle of nowhere.
  3. I think this pile of shit is the laziest songwriting I've ever seen. Like, if you want to cover a song, just cover it. Even if you are crediting the original writers and they're getting their cut, why does this thing need to exist?
  4. Hopefully it keeps Tech fans out of United Supermarket tomorrow.
  5. I love pilsners. The hazy IPA recipes are pretty similar. The difference is all the varieties of hops. There are also quite a few different grain bills for other styles of IPAs. West Coast IPAs don’t really taste like hazy New England ones.
  6. I'm not sure what you mean by "up north" but studded tires and chains are rarely used around here. Snow tires are common, but that's just a different tread profile.
  7. The worst part of driving in snow is not being able to see the lanes or the edges of the road. Unless it's really wet and slushy, it doesn't toss the vehicle around much. You guys are lucky that the ditches never fill up enough to make it impossible to discern where the shoulder drops off.
  8. A national title featuring no Big 10 or legacy SEC schools would be refreshing. I guess we get plenty of non Big 10 natties, I just like seeing more of them.
  9. I'm a bit surprised that there hasn't been more of this joke in the discourse. It's a damn shame.
  10. 100% where I'm at. 6-7 years ago I was trading TG for Russian River with @AnotherUTFan and going to beer releases or going out of my way to swing into beer bars, liquor stores, etc to find some kind of whale or gem. I pretty quickly and suddenly just lost interest in all of that shit. Plus I found a lot of the people who were super into that stuff to be relatively off putting. At least the ones that would descend on Decorah for big events. I get to my local breweries a couple times a month (if I'm lucky), drink the local beer when I'm traveling, but that's the extent of the effort I'm willing to go to.
  11. Oktoberfests are being released in July every year now.
  12. From my vantage point, the downsizing of craft beer has almost exclusively eliminated breweries I wasn't interested in anyhow.
  13. I agree with that, but United Supermarkets is a fantastic home environment and a Saturday afternoon tip leaves some time for the crowd to do some day-drinkin'. Our true road games have been at Iowa, where 40% of the crowd was in cardinal and gold, and CU over their winter break. This will be on a whole different level.
  14. Saturday's going to be a fucking dog fight. The little bit of Tech I've seen this year suggests you guys can get on one of those rolls where nothing is missing and it doesn't matter how good the half court defense is.
  15. I figured that part of the itinerary went without saying.
  16. I'm an early riser (even when boozing) but NOLA is one of those cases where I'm ok with a line at a restaurant. We'd probably just grab to-gos from the liquor store next to our hotel and get the HOTD rolling on the commute. My days will start with getting up early (6AMish) and either running around the Garden District or hitting the eliptical/weights in the hotel workout room to sweat the hangover out. An old trick I learned growing up on a farm. Sweat profusely, coffee, shower, eye opener. Feel like a new man.
  17. There's mandolins on Blind Melon, for fuck's sake.
  18. G650 speaks no lies. Blind Melon fucks.
  19. Now you're speaking fluent Al.
  20. Is Ruby Slipper a quality breakfast spot, or is it an overdone chain? I see there's one in walking distance.
  21. This is probably the most complete ISU team of my life. Fizer/Tinsley squad might take them. Maybe. We blew a 20 point lead on Auburn in Maui. Would love to have that back.
  22. Liuzza getting a lot of love upthread too. Checked them out on Google. Looks legit. We fly in on Wednesday the 29th at 1:15 and the wife wants to do a haunted tour thing in the Quarter that night (think we're scheduled for 8). Seems like checking into the hotel and grabbing an uber up there for a late lunch before drinking in the Quarter prior to the tour would be a good plan to kick things off.
  23. Thanks! Guy's and Domilise's both came up in my Google exploring and looked legit.
  24. Poboy spots in Uptown or the Garden District? Going in a few weeks and staying around St Charles & Jackson. Plan to explore that area more than on my previous trip. I'd made a note to get to Parkway, but figured maybe there's something better more out of the way and less known on that side of town. EDIT: shit, any Uptown/Garden recs would work, really.
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