Friday rolled around and brought with it a cloud of procrastination. Early evening would bring my attending this month’s MASH homebrew club meeting. All I’d need was a cold couple of glasses of some craft brew for afterwards while I composed the Slinks. But Friday, an unexpected guest showed up at the house. It was [...]

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All week long and still relatively fresh from the Dark Lord Day experience, I had been mulling around in my head about which beer to review for Saturday night. There were a couple at the Morris Beer Store that I wanted to try and I was sure I could pick up a contender from the [...]

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The usual beer run on Friday would be a short one. I had already decided on which beer to imbibe for the Saturday night review, and I already had it in my possession at home. The beer run would be a quick visitation to the beloved Morris Beer Store for an afterwork ration of Ommegang [...]

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The weekend’s beer run found me back at the Four Seasons Beer Store, looking for something especially especial. I had the RateBeer app on my iPod touch and some money in my jeans. The plan was to buy a beer for review and have a little left over to get something extra for the beer [...]

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This week’s beer run took me to the Morris Beer Store once again as it was payday week and I had been eyeing some bottles of what I understood to be some very special beer. I coasted into my usual parking spot in the fire lane right near the front door and strode inside. Marge [...]

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Glorious Friday! Glorious in the fact that it was the last day of the workweek and beer would be on hand for yours truly for after-work sippage and a beer for a review for Saturday. The weather sucked. I fired up the Mighty Tundra and headed for the Morris Beer Store. I had eyed a [...]

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It was two or three weeks ago when I dropped off a couple of 15.5 gallon beer kegs at my buddy Jeff’s house. The kegs would be used as boil kettles for homebrew and I was glad to have obtained them and was able to deliver them to help another homebrewer. I arrived at Jeff’s [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I made the trek to homebrew buddy’s house in Streator, Illinois to watch him do a batch of all-grain chocolate stout. After I had been there for a short time, one of his pumps or lines got clogged up and about 4 gallons of wort awaited transfer while he grabbed [...]

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Friday rolled in with a work-approved day off to attend the March meeting of the MASH homebrew club. I had all morning to relax and all afternoon to go on a beer run. You may remember that last Saturday there was no brew review because I was spending too much time having fun at a [...]

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For Friday’s beer run, I decided to pay another visit to the Morris Beer Store to get a better glimpse of their selections and to re-renew the relationship that I’ve established over the past few years. As I started my scan of the craft beer shelf, Gail the Beer Maven came out from the back [...]

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It was Saturday afternoon when I finally got up off my keister to revisit the Morris Beer Store and retrieve my predetermined beer of choice for tonight’s review. I spotted it on the shelf during Friday’s visit. (See this week’s Frankly speaking post.) I strolled into the store, exchanged greetings with the young lady behind [...]

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Somehow, the beginning of the weekend got screwed up. Whether it was my dependency on the Internet or my sleeping in on my day off Friday, time was a dwindling commodity. When I finally took my eyes off the monitor, it was nearing the time for the monthly MASH homebrew club meeting. Since I had [...]

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