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Or vice-versa. Guilty look on that kid's face. Probably a future Sooner.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Beer stories are like beer in my book. Lot more good ones out there than bad, and this is good -- except for that part about dumping it. ☹️ Beer definitely had a learning curve for me, and I wonder how many people remember their first sip as being pleasant. It took a while to grow on me, and for me to be confident enough to recognize when a beer had gotten skunky or was just bad. Had some bad Schell beer once that was more an issue with old stock being shelved too often at a local grocer, and I tried several bottles from a mixed 12-pack before I finally just decided there was something wrong. Manager offered to replace it with a six-pack, and that made me start watching their offerings and checking for born on/use by dates a lot more. Changes of ownership and management helped, but I had to abandon that grocer's liquor store for a while Of course, some of the stuff I've posted here probably makes beer purists shiver, too. Was wondering when you'd be back. I've seen Backwoods Bastard discussed frequently on previous threads. Seems to be highly rated by Surly. Scotch ale is among my least-favorite beer, so the barrel aging doesn't do as much for me as it does for other beers, but it's still worth a glass for sure. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Probably the oddest flight I've had. Blue Heron Brewpub in Marshfield, WI, an old favorite with many fond memories of post-activity visits with family and friends. Changed ownership during the pandemic, and probably brewmasters too. Always had both a rotating peppered beer and their house rauchbeer, both of which are no more and my drinking buddy was missing. Still good, but unexpected offerings yesterday. First was a Belgian enkel, which I'd somehow never seen in a brewpub, but ended up my favorite. Then the Ope IPA, which looked more amber and was a bit more pineapple than hoppy, but still solid. Then the Red Hare amber that was fairly dark and tasted like smoked ham (the smoke more so, the ham a hint that disappeared with my pesto-pizza consumption). Then the Return of Yeti doppelbock which immediately made me think I was having a barrel-aged stout, but with slightly less body. Finally, the Trapper's Tripel, which seemed slightly minty and then kind of bubble-gummy (probably because of @utee94's power of suggestion last week). Good, though, and why I like the surprises of beer. Stopped by after my daughter's track meet, during which the team won both boys and girls team titles and her relays moved on to sectionals. Would have taken pictures but they'd be from a distance and too many other folks on the track and infield, so forget it, ya pervs. Go to your own track meet. -
I'm mostly with @TreatyOak on this one, but it's definitely a "show me more than social-media posts" situation. And it's probable that a 10-TD season at Syracuse does far more to impress people than a thousand hours of sincere community service. On the other hand, even if it is just his agent, at least Cook is listening to somebody when he doesn't seem to have been clued in before.
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Bad bummer for Elversberg. Heidenheim breaks loose and scores with just seconds left in extra time to win 2-1 and stay in the first division. Elversberg won't be getting its town-hall balcony.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I hadn't heard of it, so I checked their beer finder link and it looks like they don't distribute outside of Iowa yet. Will keep an eye out for it. Looks like they're expanding their business rapidly. Mango Ride wheat ale, an Aldi beer from ABW in Virginia Beach (apparently affiliated with New Realm Brewing). Found it a bit flowery but a couple of other people said it was still solid and tasted more like beer than mango. Can't beat the beer prices at Aldi, and it was a nice light one to go with burgers and brats at our annual Memorial Day gathering with family and neighbors. Daughter turns 17 tomorrow (sorry, beer got in the way in the picture) and will be a senior next year; son will be a senior at Minnesota and leaves for his summer internship in Maryland in a couple of days. Listened to Bob Seger's "Night Moves" on the outdoor speakers while cleaning up and thinking about the passage of youth. Time flies. -
So Köln makes it back into the 1. Bundesliga and Elversberg is fighting to get in against Heidenheim in the second of the two legs after a 2-2 in Heidenheim Thursday. The visitors take a 1-0 lead in Elversberg's 10,000-seat stadium but the home team ties it up in the 31st. Extra time and then penalty shootout if it stays this way. And then no more Bundesliga until August. @Mittens, here's another of those German prepositions (or lack thereof): rauf geht's, which is both "let's go" and "going up."
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Pretty slow beer-drinking weekend around here, it looks like. Or at least beer posting. Cyber Sue IPA from Toppling Goliath. Not my favorite TG offering but solid. 7.2 ABV. In the low 70s again as summer tries to establish a foothold in Wisconsin. -
Halftime. BTW, I was in that stadium back in the '80s, well before the renovation. It's imposing now, but it was a spooky-ass stadium before they put the roof over it. I went to Berlin with my sponsor's youth soccer team for a tournament (just to watch) and we took a brief tour of that stadium, along with various other historical sites like the Reichstag and the Wall. Standing in that place, it was pretty easy to sense the history of the Nazi rallies, Jesse Owens, the pre-war era ... the movie "Chariots of Fire," even though about an entirely different subject than the war, did a nice job evoking the place and time.
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Looking good ... have fun! Been puttering around the house and turned it on just after the second goal. VfB probably should have had a fourth just a second ago. Grim prospects now for Bielefeld.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Was guilty of just drinking all my beer and not really thinking about what I was tasting until just a few years ago, but after I started paying attention it was the hefeweizens that made me first taste that banana note. But I also noticed it a little in Spotted Cow and other New Glarus beers. My neighbor, who after retirement started helping the brewmaster at a little place called the Kozy Yak in Rosholt, Wisconsin (now defunct) pointed out that is was this ester: Isoamyl acetate is the ester responsible for the banana-flavor. Typically described as the “circus peanuts” flavor or the dominate flavor in german-style hefeweizens. How does it form in beer? This compound forms by the condensation of acetyl CoA and isoamyl alcohol during fermentation. I'm with @utee94 on this one -- would not seek out a beer with "banana" on the label, but neither would I spurn it as I do any beer advertised as "peanut butter" or "dill pickle." Other than that, I would drink pretty much anything, at least to try it. Which, this week, included Metabolic Memories, a Central Waters double dry-hopped NEIPA, 6.8 ABV. -
Not an EPL guy -- mostly Bundesliga -- but already suffering from table withdrawal symptoms, so I'll probably watch this instead of going out to help my wife clean up yard crap after the normal Wisconsin winter and prolonged cold-mud season. She's already got me on the relegation list anyway.
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Great. First I mistake Steve for Sam, and now this.
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@TreatyOak, I'm starting to think you really need an AI intervention, as everybody knows Al Gore didn't invent Surly, the mother of all message boards, until four years after he invented the internet. I also think you stole this work from one of my students.
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Well, now that you've twice made the effort to bring my mistake to the attention of everyone, I will own it, because I simply misread and never noticed until you so astutely picked out the most important aspect of the entire 743 pages of this thread. I'll be damned if I'm gonna move on, though, as there's clearly a bowling crowd on here that needs to be served. There's also the whole nit-picking crowd that's probably starting to smell blood, and probably a few idoits and pre-Madonnas as well, and it won't take much to get us up to F2. In fact, we may already be their, so the grammar Nazis can also have they're say, even though it's not really grammar but simply spelling and punctuation, although one could argue that's kinda grammar too, because why not. And that's not just a rhetorical question, or maybe it is? Besides, I said "like Sam" both times, and SFA is "like" Sam in that both "SFA" and "Sam" have three letters, the first being "S" and another being "A," and they're both in East Texas, and they're both smaller schools, sort of, or at least used to be, and Sam Houston has a women's bowling team, and both used to be members of the Southland Conference although only one of 'em is now but both are D1 although both aren't FBS, and both are named after Texas heroes although I'm sure some folks would argue about one of 'em being better than the other or less than the other, because this is an internet football forum. And not just any forum, but Surly, so hell yeah, let's go. But whatever. Now I'll probably do it again just for fun.
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I'm hoping this gets to be a popcorn-chewin', shit-flinging battle reaching F5 on the Quinn Ewers Thread Scale.
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I expect SFA to lead the Pac/MW resurgence, using NIL money pouring in from a couple of low-key but filthy rich pyramid-scheme entrepreneurs. The school will parlay its secret East Texas right-wing political contacts into lucrative agreements with the Qatari government, which is still smarting from its failed relationship with A&M (as if there is any other kind with Aggies). SFA will thrive on all fronts and will be the only real in-state threat to UT's power base in 10 years.
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To a certain extent, it doesn't matter how much it costs. We know it's not free. It's almost certainly not profitable. It doesn't have irrefutable tangible or even intangible benefits. So even at a D1 school like Sam, it's a target. Universities everywhere are pinching every penny. It's not just about sports, which on the whole cost more than they bring in except at a very few schools like Texas and Ohio State. So schools like Sam are going to see a lot more of this, as will many of the lesser P4 schools. A lot more of it is coming, because things are no better on the academic side and that's ostensibly what schools are there for.
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According to Wikipedia, people used to travel to Antlers from the world's finest cities: "Antlers has served as a local resort town, as it is a gateway to the Kiamichi Mountains. Many tourists came to fish, hunt, and relax in the town and nearby mountains. Many came from Paris, Texas. "
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Dude definitely had a wingspan in his day. But don't involve ME in rumors about his personal life. That's a different matter. 😁
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If Gella's is as good as I remember it, you should skip Ardmore and just go to Hays.
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Having lived in Kansas four years, I can relate. There's certainly a simple and basic kind of beauty in that part of the world -- always enjoyed driving down 70 to western Kansas and Colorado where others would complain about the lack of scenery. And folks tend to have a more human and often humane set of priorities in smaller communities. Your response made me look at the map to figure out where we'd have to go shopping. Never knew until today that Salina had a Sam's Club. And now I know where the Solomon drains into the Smoky Hill River. I imagine if I lived out there I'd have more chances to grab a bourbon and watch the sunset, which is what @Kennythetiger might have to do in Ardmore, even if it is about 50 times the size of Cawker City.
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Yeah, at that point, you might as well drive on up to Kansas to see the largest (reputedly). Is the proper response "sorry about that?" if it's the Cawker City ball? Regardless, it seems that there are several making the claim (Reddit post on the subject), so you gotta figure anybody shilling Ardmore based on the second-largest is a pretty lousy huckster. Now, if we're just talkin' figuratively, I'd say Surly is the world's largest ball of twine -- especially if that Quinn Ewers post keeps spinning around like it has been.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I'm looking at their tap list and going to guess Back Alley Bock Fight. Then I'll blame it on the lighting when you tell me it's one of the ambers. That looks like a nice facility. Haven't been there yet and in fact haven't done Milwaukee any justice whatsoever for it being such a beer Mecca. Envious ... have one for me, will ya, @zlavydra?
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