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Gun to my head, I think Doppelbock is my single favorite beer style/ variety.  If I am visiting a new brewery, and they have it, doppelbock is almost always my first pour.

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Grilled some prime rib and filet mignon with the neighbors last night and scrounged a Three Sheeps (Sheboygan, WI) Rebel Kent out of their basement fridge. Not a big amber guy but this one is probably my favorite. Nice and malty, very slightly sweet. Good stuff. 

Love the can, too. Has a tiny castle in Brussels on one side of the can and the tiny brewery in Sheboygan on the other, separated by fields of grain.

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Burned 10 acres of CRP, went mountain biking, assembled a set of patio furniture, baby sat my FIL while he got hammered and waxed poetic about Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever winning an exhibition game by 60. Grilling brats now.

I’ve earned this

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1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Burned 10 acres of CRP, went mountain biking, assembled a set of patio furniture, baby sat my FIL while he got hammered and waxed poetic about Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever winning an exhibition game by 60. Grilling brats now.

I’ve earned this

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Worked in the seed business in high school/ college.  Did more CRP grass mixes than I ever care to think about again. Big Bluestem, Side Oats grama, Blackwell Switchgrass, Indian Bluestem, Buffalograss, among others native to TX/OK/NM.

Why are we burning CRP land, for faster regrowth?

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1 hour ago, Iceman said:

Worked in the seed business in high school/ college.  Did more CRP grass mixes than I ever care to think about again. Big Bluestem, Side Oats grama, Blackwell Switchgrass, Indian Bluestem, Buffalograss, among others native to TX/OK/NM.

Why are we burning CRP land, for faster regrowth?

Just to mimic the old days I guess.

Fire and buffalo kept the shrubs from getting started.  We’ve long since offed the buffalo, but I guess we can recreate the fire pretty easily.

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Sunday happy hour: first day it's been nice enough to take it back out to the patio, our regular warm-weather location, after a long winter and mud season. Got all the way to 71.6 today, according to the NWS.

Started with a Central Waters Tomorrow River Helles. Beer stories associated with the Tomorrow but ain't nobody got time for that. Other notable beers included Dragon's Milk (the original) from Holland, Michigan -- literally, as the wife of one of our regulars was there this weekend and delivered it shortly before happy hour. The regulars also loved New Holland Brewing's Tangerine Space Machine, a tangerine IPA that was more tangerine and less IPA. It was probably just that it tasted like summer and everybody wanted that.

Started with 10 beers of three types in the garage mini-fridge. Ended with 19 beers of 11 types. Some will not make it through the week, as yard work season is now in full swing.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Iceman said:

Worked in the seed business in high school/ college.  Did more CRP grass mixes than I ever care to think about again. Big Bluestem, Side Oats grama, Blackwell Switchgrass, Indian Bluestem, Buffalograss, among others native to TX/OK/NM.

Why are we burning CRP land, for faster regrowth?

 

4 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Just to mimic the old days I guess.

Fire and buffalo kept the shrubs from getting started.  We’ve long since offed the buffalo, but I guess we can recreate the fire pretty easily.

I do not miss living in Manhattan, Kansas, during this time of year. The smoke from prairie burning was a constant irritant.

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On 5/8/2025 at 9:58 AM, Steamboat1874 said:

My beer of choice the last several years…..

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At 9% it is not for pussies.

used to really enjoy this, but when i found out it was 230 calories a bottle i decided i was already much too fat to do that to myself. i did however grab my annual batch of waldo’s, as is tradition:

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i should probably do something about those cobwebs tho. 

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17 minutes ago, Derka said:

used to really enjoy this, but when i found out it was 230 calories a bottle i decided i was already much too fat to do that to myself. i did however grab my annual batch of waldo’s, as is tradition:

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i should probably do something about those cobwebs tho. 

At my age I no longer give a shit about calories.

Plus for some reason I have no appetite anymore.

For the last two years I eat one meal a day basically and sometimes fast for 24 hours completely.

Guess my calories from Voodoo works but seriously I am a type 2 diabetic but I have lowered my A1C to 5.7 at my last appointment and I actually weighed 233 pounds 2-1/2 years ago which was fat for my height.

I weighed 183 pounds this morning.

I actually need some new clothes.

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40 minutes ago, Derka said:

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ami i doing this right?

oh this is some beer beer. this is that secret microbrew that the north koreans had on always sunny. i’ve cut way back on my drinking the last year or so, and what i do drink is either an ipa or some lime star. i had to google “tripel” just now. this is just some good ole fashioned got damn beer. i like it.

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oh this is some beer beer. this is that secret microbrew that the north koreans had on always sunny. i’ve cut way back on my drinking the last year or so, and what i do drink is either an ipa or some lime star. i had to google “tripel” just now. this is just some good ole fashioned got damn beer. i like it.

Next move into the Belgian Tripels. Tripel Karmeliet or St. Bernardus Tripel.
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17 hours ago, Derka said:

ami i doing this right?

As a noob on this thread since around February, I skimmed or read through large portions of past beer threads, and as best as I can tell somebody checked out the Book of Beer Thread Rules sometime during the 2018 thread and never returned it. So as far as I'm concerned you're doing it right, but I'm not in charge.

Happy Mother's Day to your mom, @Derka. And to all other Surly moms and moms of Surlies.

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5 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

As a noob on this thread since around February, I skimmed or read through large portions of past beer threads, and as best as I can tell somebody checked out the Book of Beer Thread Rules sometime during the 2018 thread and never returned it. So as far as I'm concerned you're doing it right, but I'm not in charge.

Happy Mother's Day to your mom, @Derka. And to all other Surly moms and moms of Surlies.

she says thanks! 🤘🏼 

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did any of y’all ever try lagunita’s Born Yesterday? that’s my favorite beer of all time, but they either haven’t made it or haven’t sold it out here for years. they had the bottling date on the label, and it was always like 6-8 weeks from the bottling date that it would show up at my HEB. 7%, hoppy, fresh- it was perfect. i miss that beer.

also, their brim shugga- damn. 10%, string as hell, like 300 calories- shit packed a punch, but damn it was good.

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2 hours ago, Derka said:

did any of y’all ever try lagunita’s Born Yesterday? that’s my favorite beer of all time, but they either haven’t made it or haven’t sold it out here for years. they had the bottling date on the label, and it was always like 6-8 weeks from the bottling date that it would show up at my HEB. 7%, hoppy, fresh- it was perfect. i miss that beer.

also, their brim shugga- damn. 10%, string as hell, like 300 calories- shit packed a punch, but damn it was good.

Label doesn't look familiar and I don't have it in my Untappd listing, so I was going to say I haven't had it ... but I see the last review on Untappd was four hours ago and there are also 2023 and 2024 versions listed separately. When I read the description of Born Yesterday, I know we had a discussion in our happy hour group not too long ago about rushing the hops to the brewery so they could be used within 24 hours of harvest. That means, if not Born Yesterday, we probably had a similar beer, but I can't be sure. We try pretty much any Lagunitas we can find, and I'd have to say I didn't find it that memorable if I did have it.

Speaking of fresh beer, my son and I stopped by the Leinie Lodge in Chippewa Falls today for the first time. I had the Lakeside Cherry sour gose, which was pretty good for a Wisconsin-warm day (83 at the lodge around 3 p.m.). Virtually everything I've had from Leinenkugel's is fairly light (as it's generally been their shandies and seasonal fruited lagers). But they had a decent stout in my son's flight. Nice setting and their stuff was pretty good on tap from the source.

 

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