I pulled this off the Boardpusher.com RSS feed. This park looks pretty sweet.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Zombie Shooting Targets
We all know the truth about the swine flu actually being the first phase of the Zombie Apocalypse, so there’s no time better than this Christmas to stock up on these beautiful, 4-color Zombie gun targets. Buy them separately or collect all 4, nothing says Happy Chanukah like a bullet riddled Nazi zombie!
Uprise Video from Northbrook Park
Pulled this from the Uprise site, this skate park in Northbrook looks pretty dope. Might need to go do an early morning Dawn Patrol there some time before it gets too cold.
New Glarus, The Grumpy Troll, and the Tutelage of the Open Road
As I mentioned the other day, WSD and I decided to celebrate this unexpected Indian Summer by making our way into the Great White North on Saturday in search of open roads and delicious craft brew. And, while our adventure took some acceptable, though unforeseen, detours, we were served some of the finest riding and [...]
Posted in Beer, Motorcycling, Review Tagged Lake Zurich, Mt. Horeb, New Glarus, New Glarus Brewing Company, The Grumpy Troll, Tom Waits, Wisconsin 2 Comments
Fly Fishing
Woke up this morning early, without a hangover, a rare Saturday occurrence. Thought I’d try and get some work done and in the process ran across a story I’d started just after we got back from the Lake Vermilion fishing trip. Well, one thing led to another and before I knew it I fell into [...]
Posted in Fishing, Gear, Instructional Tagged Chicago, Fly Fishing, fly's. Lake Vemilion Leave a comment
Motorcycles to New Glarus
“Some people paint, some sing, others write … I brew.” -Daniel Carey, Brewmaster, New Glarus Brewery, Wisconsin I was planning on hitting the AHA Teach Your Friend to Homebrew event at Brew & Grow tomorrow, I figure it’d be a good way to find those bits of information that only experience can offer a person [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Motorcycling Tagged AHA, Brew & Grow, Madison, New Glarus, Teach a Friend To Homebrew, Totally Naked, Up North, Willard Skynard Devotionliner, Wisconsin 2 Comments
Thanks, Hank.
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth [...]
Quick Switch Between Cornelius (Homebrew) Keg & Sanke (Commercial) Keg
Last night we bottled our first batch of OA beer. It was pretty awesome to see our experiment limping idly towards success. The beer turned out to be much lighter than it appeared while fermenting in the carboy, but it was pretty remarkable how much like beer this strange concoction actually looked. We siphoned the [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional Tagged beersmith, Cornelius, Home brewing, kegconnection.com, kegerator, OA Beer, Sanke Leave a comment
How to Build an Immersion Chiller for Your Wort
Here’s a good article for how to build a DIY wort chiller. Honestly, you can buy these for like $50 at most places – I got mine at homebrewheaven.com (Come on! They’ve got animated gifs on their site!) – and, unless you’re getting your stuff at wholesale, you’re probably going to pay close to $40 [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional Tagged allaboutbeer.com, homebrewheaven.com, Wort Chiller Leave a comment
AHA Teach Your Friend to Homebrew Day
Brew & Grow is hosting the 11th Annual Teach Your Friend to Homebrew Day here in beautiful Chicago. The event will go from noon until 4pm at the Brew & Grow store at 1824 N. Besly Ct. View Larger Map