Category: food & drink
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Fifteen
B’s been waiting fourteen weeks for this glass of beer. Says it was worth the wait. Read.
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opener
Here’s a bottle opener that combines my love of gadgets with my love of beer. Prosit! Read.
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252 again
There is no better way to spend Sunday morning than camping out on a sidewalk in downtown Madison at six o’clock and waiting for the stroke of noon, when tickets go on sale for the Great Taste of the Midwest. This is the fourth time we’ve bought tickets this way, if memory serves. The first… Read.
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burning carbs
Oh my, I have sooo many carbs to burn off after last night’s fish fry. We joined the kickoff of Madison Craft Beer Week by meeting a couple of friends at Quivey’s Grove to swap stories over a Friday night fish fry and a couple glasses of Common Thread Biere de Garde, which is French… Read.
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ceremonial
Sometime last week I grilled a big slab of salmon on the Weber for the first time this season, but it doesn’t count as the first ceremonial cook-out. That would’ve been last night when I boiled brats in beer, then grilled them to crispy brown perfection over hot coals. Man, that’s good eatin’! Read.
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Photobomb!
Between movies, we had time enough to drive up to Brasserie V to check out some of the imported beers and fill up on some delicious pub food! Read.
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philosophical repose
It was the kind of day that a thoughtful man such as myself could only ponder over two martinis. One martini just would not provide enough pondering time. Which reminds me of a song: Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable Heidigger, Heidigger was a boozing beggar who could think you… Read.
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movin on up
I bought it. It’s mine. I took that hot liquor tank off his hands. This is it, the gateway to grain brewing. When I got started brewing beer I didn’t think I’d ever be interested in brewing from scratch, but after reading up on it all week long I have to admit it sounds very… Read.
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fishy
I’m happy to report 100% success at Our Humble O’Bode’s first cookout of the season. I wasn’t so sure I’d be able to pull it off at first when the Weber, which I had broken down to pieces to make it easier to store, stubbornly resisted all attempts to reassemble it, but when I figured… Read.
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