My daughter, the sometime baker, is visiting from New York, and has spent the last 2 days in the kitchen, experimenting with new recipes. Her tiny un-air conditioned Brooklyn kitchen was getting her down, so she fled the city to stretch out in my big, …
If you weren’t there you missed David buying a round of microbrews, followed up by Bryan passing around shots of Tequila. Mike is a professional photographer but thankfully he didn’t have his camera with him to capture what happened after Jim ordered up a round of Jägermeister.
Either that, or we all hung out for a […]
by Steven ThomasSpotsylvania Republican It seems to me that there are three things- and only three things- that count in having a good President: Policies, Experience and Judgement.
On policies, several things impress me about this race. One is that n…
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star is running a story on the comeback of hard cider production in Virginia entitled Hard cider’s second act:
In early America, the undisputed beverage of choice was hard apple cider–even more so than water.
Thomas Jeff…
I thought we might luck out and get a cell or two worth viewing this evening but the Northern VA radar remains stubbornly clear. However, given the SPC Day 3 (Saturday) and Day 4 (Sunday) convective projections it appears that the likelihood of a ch…
That’s right, it’s back. That elusive beer the Achel Trappist Belgian Abbey Ale. Trappist ales, for those of you who may not know, are beers brewed by a select few Benedictine monasteries, most of which are in Belgium. Chimay is the most famous and most easily available. Then you have Orval, also fairly easy to get, Koningshoeven, Westmalle, Rochefort, which is a bit more difficult to get, and Westleveren, which is the most difficult to get because you can only buy it at the monastery. Of the ones that are exported, Achel is by far the most difficult to get because it only comes around once in a while. In our case, we got our last batch about 2 years ago and have been sold out for months. Anyway, it’s back. Get it while you can.
Next we have a new beer from one of my favorite Belgian breweries, Gouden Carolus. The Hopsinjoor is that most elusive of beers – a hoppy Belgian ale. Brewed with four different hops, this one will appeal to hop heads and Belgian ale lovers.
Schlitz has gone back to the classic 60s formula and will be selling it in the classic brown longneck with the old school label. I’ve heard that the original Schlitz was a decent beer before cost cutting in the 70s ruined it. I’ll certainly let you know if I get the opportunity to drink it. […]
Cowboys are carpooling to get to rodeos.
That can’t be good for the horse’s back.
Being
a child of the 60’s, a lot of my music memory is wrapped up in the folk
music of the time. I recently stumbled on a site that has quickly
become one of my favorites. It is Pandora, a site that allows you to
enter your favorite arti…
Wednesday 9th July [1862] Heard yesterday that the Yankees had been within seven miles of us the night before. We persuaded Will and Dick to leave yesterday evening. If Sue comes I am to take her up to Albemarle to Dick. I think she must …
