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Why Gun Rights Will Survive

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

When the opponents have this level of intelligence, how can freedom not survive?It’s sad that California Senator Kevin de León (Democrat naturally) probably believes what he’s saying. He’s so naive that he blindly accepts the stuff the anti-gun groups…



Free Matthew Bracken Books

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 15th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

[UPDATED with Thursday’s Free books ]Author Matthew Bracken is offering his excellent books as free Kindle downloads. I’ve already bought and read all these books and thoroughly enjoyed them. Whether you read them solely for entertainment, as warnings,…



Hardywood Park Arrives in Fredericksburg

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 9th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

“Finally.” That was the common refrain heard at Tuesday’s Hardywood Park Brewery release party and Steal the Glass event at Capital Ale House. The Richmond brewery’s beers have been available around the Richmond area, and I even saw them a couple weeks…



Fixing Silly VA ABC Laws

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 8th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

There’s a small bit of sanity coming from the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Board, an bureaucracy not exactly known for exhibiting common sense. At least one pointless regulation is being eased:Good news, Virginia bargoers! The state’s Departm…



Beers of Winter – New Belgium Accumulation

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

We discovered this one quite by accident. While shopping in preparation for our annual Epiphany party, I spied a mixed case of New Belgian beers at the local warehouse store. I picked it up on a whim. Returning home with the beers, I realized the box w…



Pizzeria Paradiso

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

We’ve been making use of the holiday staycation to do some extra shooting and to visit some of the “beer stops” that have long been on our to-do list. Last week after taking in the Jerusalem IMAX movie at the Museum of Natural History, we stopped by Pi…



Bartering For Beer

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

I’m sure we can all empathize with this thirsty Floridian. Who among us hasn’t been short of cash, in need of a beer, with an unneeded alligator lying around? Fernando Caignet Aguilera simply wanted to trade a four foot alligator for beer at a loc…



Mekong is for Beer Lovers

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 2nd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We drove down to Mekong Restaurant in Richmond this week. The Vietnamese restaurant has been voted the Best Beer Bar in America for two years running. Proprietor An “Mekong” Bui’s passion is craft beer and it shows in his restaurant, with the “Mekong i…



Merry New Year!

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Jan 1st, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I wish all my friends a joyful and blessed 2014.There will be no Musings Over a Pint retrospective post. If you need one, 2013 is summarized here. As for 2014, you really knows? Let’s just enjoy the ride!
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Mornings on the Range

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Dec 31st, 2013 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I was looking through my notes, and realized that I had not been to the outdoor range to shoot my pistol for a couple of months. Shooting has been limited to a few USPSA matches, the indoor range, and some shotgun or rifle time. So, during my holiday&n…