Holy crap this is awesome! ThinkGeek is offering a tauntaun sleeping bag this Christmas season complete with gut filled liner and a light saber to open the tauntaun with. I totally need one of these so I have the proper receptacle to pee my pants from excitement in!
Monthly Archives: December 2009
3 Floyd’s Dark Lord Pot Roast
A friend gave me a bottle of the infamous 3 Floyd’s Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout a few weeks ago. I decided to use it punch up a pot roast I was making. Here’s the recipe: * 3 1/2 lb of beef shoulder or boneless chuck roast * 1 Tbsp olive or grapeseed oil * [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Instructional, Recipes Tagged 3 Floyd's, Baldridge's, Big Hugs, Dark Lord, Dark Lord Festival, Half Acre, Imperial Stout, Pot Roast 1 Comment
Chair Lift at Devil’s Head Breaks… What a Surprise!
I love Devil’s Head. It’s the snowboarding equivalent of an old, tetanus riddled, metal jungle gym. Run by carnies and littered with overfed, pasty-faced drunks with swords strapped to their feet, this place remains one of the last great lines to that kind of true-grit American fun you could only get in the strychnine-laced 1970′s. [...]
Waxing XC Skis
Chicago’s temperature index is staying comfortably below freezing now, in fact, most days this week we were below zero with windchill. I haven’t yet committed to the adjustment for riding my bike to work in the mornings, but I think I’ll start with that again next week. My plan for that is to basically dress [...]
Yeast Starter
So I tried our IPA (a very loose Bell’s Two Hearted Clone) and it’s just OK. It’s not fully carbonated yet so I’m sure that will improve it’s flavor a bit, but the real issue is that it’s real thin, way too bitter (even for me), and there’s a similar, very subtle flavor in there [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes, Review Tagged Bell's Two Hearted, Cascade, Centenniel, Chicago, English Bitter, Freshops.com, Half Acre Daisy Cutter, IPA, White Labs Yeast, wYeast, yeast starter Leave a comment
Weaponized Egg Nog
Here is a vague approximation of the wicked ass egg nog I seem to remember making for SantaKong for a few years (I scale up to use a bottle of each of the liquors). It is best served in a gas can. It pairs well with jackassery. You will have regrets, but you will have [...]
SantaKong – Saturday December 12th
For low these past 8 years now a group of degenerates near and dear to my heart have been hosting Chicago’s version of the SantaCon, the inimitable (and superbly intoxicated) SANTA KONG. Yes, it’s as intimidating as a 3 story gorilla and almost as virile, too. Yes, you will get drunk, very drunk. And, yes, [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Pyro Tagged Burning Man, Cacaphony Society, Chicago, Egg Nog, Quencher's Saloon, SantaCon, SantaKong, Santarchy, SynchroniCity Leave a comment
IPA Glazed Nuts
I pulled this recipe from part of another recipe in issue #33 of BeerAdvocate. It’s super easy and real effective. 1 cup raw nuts 1 cup powdered sugar 1 tsp salt 2 tsp IPA Whisk the sugar, salt and IPA together into an opaque syrup. Add the nuts and stir well. Place the nuts on [...]
Your Goose Is Cooked
So this year I’m making my first ever Christmas Goose. Above is a before picture. I will then put it through the paces using a combination of recipes from Jacques Pepin, Julia Child and this recipe from Bonny Wolf of NPR which Brian sent me yesterday. This one is particularly interesting because of the information [...]
Posted in Event, Instructional, Recipes Tagged Atwater Brewery, Beer, Bonny Wolf, Chimay, Christmas, Goose, Jacque Pepin, Jak's Tap, julia child, Michaelmas, Teufel Bock Leave a comment