Category: Great Taste of the Midwest
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pre-GTOTMW
Note to future self: When attending Great Taste of the Midwest Pre-Party, do not attempt to eat a hamburger that’s bigger than your head. Really, that thing must have weighed a half-pound at least, and they piled cheese, onion rings and two strips of bacon on top of it. Realizing my mistake, I ate just Read.
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Hypothermic
I froze my ass off today. Really. I have no ass. I sat in line with My Darling B – stood, for a while, but mostly sat, so I’m defaulting to that – for five hours this morning to buy tickets for the Great Taste of the Midwest. The skies were clear, the day was Read.
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Great Taste
While I was looking through the photos I shot at the Great Taste of the Midwest yesterday, the first thought that came to mind when I saw this one was, Who are these people? My brain was still a little fogged from imbibing a bit too enthusiastically at the Great Taste this year. I’m usually Read.
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tickets
This is where it all starts: People waiting in line (in this case, at Star Liquor on Willy Street) to buy their tickets to The Great Taste of the Midwest, which is quickly becoming the biggest celebration of craft beer in the nation, to say nothing of it being the most sought-after ticket in town. Read.
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GTMW09
We’re just back from the Great Taste of the Midwest, the pre-eminent beer festival in the nation, where we sampled fifty different beers from thirty-five different breweries in Wisconsin and surrounding states, although some of the brewers came from as far away as Kentucky. There were quite a few brewers from Kentucky, actually. I wonder Read.
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GTMW08 roundup
Apparently alarmed at the recurrent references to stopping by the liquor store for the weekly beer tasting, my Mom shot me an e-mail asking if My Darling B and I were on the cusp of joining Alcoholics Anonymous. Well, guess what, Mom? We both spent yesterday afternoon (from one o’clock until six, to be absolutely Read.
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GTMW08 score tickets
Yesterday we took a break from grilling our dinner by stopping at the Harmony Bar on the way home and chowing down on wonderfully greasy, cheese-covered hamburgers, but since we were home for dinner tonight I went right back out to the Weber and started a fire big, hot fire to grill the very same Read.
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GTMW07 names
The good people who brew beer for a living have a tradition of dreaming up the goofiest names possible for their potions. Featured at this year’s Great Taste of the Midwest were brews such as Dirty Helen Ale, Discombobulation Celebration, and Under the Kilt Heavy. For the people who like to drink beer, giving them Read.
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GTMW07 preview
It’s beer day! I probably won’t be in any shape to write about it tonight, so I thought I’d mention it now. After lunch, Barb and I will head for the Great Taste of the Midwest, an annual festival of microbrewers who converge on Olin park, bringing tuns filled with their wares so we can Read.
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GTMW07 score
My Darling B got hold of two tickets to the 2007 Great Taste of the Midwest craft beer festival, sponsored by the Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild. Tickets have been sold out since early May, so this was no small feat. I keep saying she’s magical, but this proved it once and for all. Read.
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