FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

+K for Fins and his story!

[sju56321]

Wonka-maybe you will meet at the airport, as she is flying to Minnesota on the 5th. Maybe next time, but I think TDT would be needed as a chaperone. Right?

[raiderguy]

Fins,

You are a bad man.

[Kilted Rat]

Thanks for all the kudos. To make sure the record is correct, KR brought the burger down to Salem via his dad's truck, not on the bus. KR picked up the burger the Thursday before the Stagg Bowl in Maple Grove and then drove to Ohio to hook up with his dad.

I knew you remembered the correct version of the story

Every time I think of that trip, and the 30 hours of driving in 38 hours with a total of 3 hours of sleep, I get tired




Too bad TDT's parents didn't get COI Insurance years ago, they could have saved thousands!




Great 4 days of fishing in Canada. Pulled in a 26 1/2" walleye on my first leech! Great way to start off the trip! Pics to come including one of MrsKR's 83 year old Grandpa and his 23" walleye.

+k all around to help the Twins pull off the extra innings win following a stellar start by Baker 7 IP, 9k's 1 ER, 4 hits, 1 walk

[sumander]

KR, Welcome back! 26 1/2" walleye is a nice fish! You must live right. I had some friends that jsut returned from a Canada trip, between the mayflies and bad weather their fishing was less than spectacular!

[Kilted Rat]

Thanks Sum!

We has 75 or warmer every day with minimal wind and lots of sun. I am darker now than when I got back from my Honeymoon in the Caribean!

On Sunday, the 3 guys in my boat decided we should count how many fish we caught before lunch. Between 1st line wet at 8:00 and noon we caught 58 fish! 48 walleye, 5 perch, 3 bass, 1 northern , and a stick. Of the 48 walleye, all but 3 were 12" or longer.

[sumander]

48 walleyes in 240 minutes! A walleye every 5 minutes. I'd take that any day.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Is Alaksan Amber available in Minn? Also quite similar to Fat Tire from what I remember.

Good call on the Alaskan Amber.  I've been sipping on Redhook's "Long Hammer IPA".  I really like the flavor and goes great with steak (as every beer does).

Hmmm . . . am unaware (here in sunny socal) of RedHook's "Long Hammer IPA" . . . how's it compare to their regular old IPA . . . aka "Ballard Bitter" . . . ya sure you betcha?

tooth

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Never mind, just looks like a name change . . . here's what I found w/ a google search:

Time To Get Hammered (Or, Whatever Happened To Ballard's Best Bitter?)
May 24 '07 (Updated May 24 '07)

Author's Product Rating


Weight:      
Flavor:      
Complexity:      

Pros
Hops, hops, hops.

Cons
I can't think of any.

The Bottom Line
A very drinkable IPA.

Full Review
Wine people will tell you that for the best wines, the older the vintage, the better. Everybody knows that wine improves with age, after all. For most beers, the reverse is true. The fresher the beer the better it usually is, though there are exceptions. But knowing fresh beer to be as good as it is, I pounced upon a six-pack of Red Hook Long Hammer IPA when I saw it on store shelves at my local Kroger recently.

Long Hammer, is of course, just a new name for Red Hook IPA, which used to be called Ballard's Best Bitter. And Ballard, of course, is a section of Seattle which nowadays boasts a few very good brewpubs of its own, though they weren't there when Ballard got Red Hook's IPA named after it.

In any event, my gleaming fresh bottles were only about three week
off the bottling lines of Red Hook's New Hampshire facility when I purchased them. They had a date of April 27th stamped upon them, meaning they made it here to me in Atlanta in less than a month.

Pouring a bottle into my Red Hook pint glass, I got a golden-orange colored liquid topped off nicely by a huge rocky head of foam. That foam sticks to the sides of your glass in the form of a thick coating of Brussels lace, and the clear glass soon becomes coated with wispy traces of white residue.

On popping open my bottle, I got an immediate rush of fresh Cascade hop aroma. You'll get that from sniffing the glass as well, but make sure you're at the ready to capture the first whiff rushing to escape when you open yours. Pure hop nirvana.

The body of the beer has a decent amount of chewy caramel malt. No malt behemoth, but the beer remains highly drinkable as a result. The Cascade hops certainly star here in all resiny, piney glory. But in the finish they're joined by grassy Willamettes and impressively bitter Northern Brewer varietals. The floral aroma and long dry lingering bitter aftertaste is a true hophead's delight.

As fate would have it, I was in the Seattle area just a few days after buying my Long Hammer. A drop by the original Red Hook brewery in nearby Woodinville was on my agenda, so I was able to taste a fresh pint of Long Hammer straight from the Woodinville brewery, too.

One thing that struck me immediately upon entering the brewery was the identical layout to the New Hampshire facility. More correctly, the New Hampshire facility is identical to the Woodinville one, since Woodinville was built first. The pint of Long Hammer I tasted at the brewery's Forecaster's Pub was almost identical to the New Hampshire brewed version, too, though surprisingly the east coast version seemed just a bit more hoppy.

Regardless of where it's brewed, Long Hammer is dry hopped, or aged on whole flower hops for added aroma and flavor. I think the beer has wonderful balance between malt and hops, and both are well represented. This may not be as big and powerful a beer as some domestic IPAs, but it's no slouch either, and I for one love it. Four and a half well-earned stars.

So why not hammer down a few for yourself? I'm sure you'll see what I mean.

[BDB]

Oh, you crazy kids.....

http://www.nbc10.com/slideshow/news/13545692/detail.html

[Rico 21]

UWW's Derek Stanley was just signed to a 3 year contract with the Rams.  Best wishes for a successful representation of d3.

[Rico 21]

This week we celebrate a special birthday.  Monica Lewinsky turned 31.  Can you believe it?  It seems like only yesterday she was crawling aroung the White House on her hands and knees...    putting everything in her mouth.

              They grow up so quickly, don't they?

[finsleft]

A little old man shuffled slowly into an ice cream parlor and pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto a stool. After catching his breath,  he ordered a banana split.
The waitress asked kindly, "Crushed nuts?"
"No," he replied, "Arthritis."

[finsleft]

Why NFL quarterbacks need to keep their names short:
Frye

Roethlisberger

[tmerton]

Oh, you crazy kids.....

http://www.nbc10.com/slideshow/news/13545692/detail.html

Oh, gee - crazy doesn't explain it.   Wait for the toxicology tests.