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How Was Your Hump Day?

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • May 7th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

After getting the work day obligations out of the way, there was time for this:It was just me and some noisy geese on the pond.And now it’s time for this:That’s Flying Dog Easy IPA, which was reviewed here.Don’t hate me.   🙂
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What Country Did I Wake Up In?

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • May 7th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I’ve been displaying the American flag, along with the Pledge of Allegiance on this blog, since at least July 2012. I do so proudly, and have no intent on ceasing. Imagine my surprise when the left in this country this week deemed the display of the fl…



“May the Fourth” USPSA Match

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • May 6th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Fredericksburg Practical Shooters had some Star Wars fun with their “May the Fourth Be With You” match theme. The monthly match was also a special “classifier match,” so four standards stages were set up in addition to three field courses. It was a…



Pope’s Cream Cake and Saison

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • May 3rd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The other evening we were enjoying some Heavy Seas Red Sky at Night before dinner. Even though we stocked up on this beer last Summer, Colleen and I were discussing how it really fits as a good Spring beer. After dinner we enjoyed a family movie night,…



Dominion Candi – Tasting Gold

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Apr 30th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I was going through the various newsfeed I follow yesterday evening and came across several headlines like this one, “Dominion Brewing Candi Belgian Tripel Takes The Gold.” I then remembered that I had a couple bottles the brewery had sent last Fall an…



April Walnut Ridge USPSA Match

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Apr 28th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I finally got in an actual, and complete USPSA match, my first this year.  I headed out in the early morning light for the pleasant, but long drive to Summit Point, West Virginia for the Walnut Ridge Practical Shooters April match. Rain was predic…



Easy IPA Fills the Fridge Gap

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Apr 25th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

With a hundred or so bottles of beer in the basement fridge, and an equal amount in boxes nearby, it’s hardly believable that sometimes there’s just “nothing to drink.” I’ll occasionally stand at refrigerator digging through closely packed bottles, loo…



When Is a Cube Not a Cube?

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Apr 23rd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

When it’s an ice “cube” produced by Suntory Whisky. The Japanese whisky maker is running a campaign featuring what are billed as 3D Printed Ice Cubes.While the computer engineered ice is certainly attractive, I’m not sure how practical it really ice fo…



Adventure Brewing Opens May 15

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Apr 22nd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Fredericksburg’s third craft brewery, Adventure Brewing, will open Thursday, May 15. Brewers Tim Bornholtz, Stan Johnson and John Viarella have been hard at work doing construction on the brewery and developing their beers. The Adventure Brewing w…



Triumph Over Evil

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Apr 20th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

AND in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre. And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and coming, ro…