It seems that eating well, surrounding yourself with good friends, and knocking a few back every night is a prescription for longer life. Who knew? A recently published study in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research shows that heavy drinkers actually live longer than those who abstain from alcohol. Scientists at the University of Texas Austin [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Drinkers Outlive Non-Drinkers
Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes Tagged longevity, singularityhub.com, Stanford, University of Texas Leave a comment
Fuck It
I caught the fear a little over a week ago. I had been dropping in at Wilson for a couple weeks with little to no issue, I was even improving pretty well on my carving. Then one day I lost the thread. My feet were never in the right place. I forgot how to get [...]
Oktoberfest Kick Off at Bavarian Lodge with Metropolitan
On Friday September 17th the Bavarian Lodge will kick off it’s annual Oktoberfest with a pig roast and two exclusive beers from Metropolitan. Two Exclusive Metropolitan Brews will Be Tapped at the Event… One on draft, plus a very special gravity-fed firkin that will be tapped right on the bar! As always, the day also [...]
Posted in Beer, Event Tagged Metropolitan Brewing Company, Oktoberfest, the Bavarian Lodge, Ween Leave a comment
Kanoa Flyaway Helmets
I was perusing the tubes the other day when I came across these gems at tailtap.com. Apparently, they’re hand made from the original molds from back in the 70s. No doubt these have got to be the best looking skateboard helmets I’ve seen, however there is a certain amount of controversy over how much protection [...]
Posted in Gear, Skateboarding Tagged Kanoa Flyaway Helmets, Marshall von Wolf, S-One, Silverfish Longboarding, tailtap.com 9 Comments
Harvesting Homegrown Hops
I was out in the sticks checking out the hops last weekend and they aren’t quite ready to come down. And really, since this is our first year growing, there’s no real harvesting to do anyway. Regardless, I’m trying to get some good information on when, should we need to, we’ll know to harvest our [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional Tagged harvesting hops, Homebrewing, homebrewjunkie.com Leave a comment
Brewing Season is Upon Us
Before I left for Belgium we brewed what would be our first and final beer for the summer of 2010, a delicious and successful Saison. When I returned from my trip I learned that we had lost our sweet brewing space. Fortunately, we’ve got another lined up, it’s just not quite as cherry (or close) [...]
Posted in Beer, Grilling, Review Tagged 14th Anniversary Emperial IPA, Bad Man Old Rye, BeerAdvocate.com, Belgium, Chicago, Homebrewing, Ichibad, New Holland, Porter, Repo Man, Revolution Brewery, Saison, Stone Leave a comment
Help Save The Turf
You might remember me blogging about this a few weeks ago, but now there’s a Facebook page that organizers are using as a kind of digital petition to help save the Turf bowls that were uncovered a couple months ago in Wisconsin. Go to their page and ‘Like’ it to show support.
RocknRon’s Stage 3 Ballistech Missiles Skateboard Bearings
Trevor mentioned these little metal beasts in a previous post, but I wanted to take the time to give them their own mention as well. I picked up a set of RocknRon’s Stage 3 Ballistech Missiles to pair with my Rainskates Killer Bees and have found an unwieldy and powerful adversary for pool riding. Between [...]
Posted in Gear, Review, Skateboarding Tagged Denver Skate Shop, Evil, NASA, primal fucking evil, Rainskates, RockNRon, SoCal Skates, Stage 3 Ballistech Missiles Leave a comment
Octoberfest at Destihl September 25th @ 4pm
We met the nice guys from Destihl at the Beer Hoptacular in Chicago back in June. They were one of the lone stand outs at that event, both in their seeming genuine enjoyment of their hobby cum job and also in their beer – they offered the only sour at the event and, sour or [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Motorcycling Tagged Beer Hoptacular, Destihl, Marzen, Willard Skynard Devotionliner Leave a comment