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Harpoon
At Brightwaters Beverage, I found a new 12 pack from Harpoon, which included three each of the UPO, IPA, Ale and Munich Dark. Sure would make a nice gift, to give or to get!
Saturday, October 22, 2005
3:42 PM
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Disney Wrap
And before Black Forest was Disney. Alot of work, but alot of fun. Our favorite spots: the Buzz Lightyear ride (shooting Zurg and his minions), Soarin (virtual flying), Mickey's Philharmagic (great 3-d musical), and "It's A Small World," the boat ride whose theme song drove Hudson and Sam crazy.
On the food side, we had terrific dinners in Cinderella's Castle, the Liberty Tree tavern, and at the Coral Reef restaurant, which also had a good wine list.
But for beer and wine, the place to go was the Food and Wine festival at Epcot's World showcase, offering the top beers and a good selection of wines from 25 nations.
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Black Forest Wrap
We closed out Black Forest Brew House Octoberfest for another year a couple weekends ago. Black Forest was busy in four different areas of the brewpub all at once: in the Sunday buffet; at the bar for the football game; out on the deck with the Octoberfest food and beers; and in the tent, where they'd put the band this year (good move).
And the Octoberfest brew was good too!
Friday, October 21, 2005
6:37 PM
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Just Budweiser being given away at this morning's Post Office 5k run, but who am I to begrudge a freebie? We actually had to run a shortened 4k course because of the widespread flooding we've had this week. But that managed to help me keep my pace under 9 minutes/mile!
Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:06 AM
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Octoberfest Long Island
Last weekend at Black Forest, and a dinner coming up at Southampton Publick House on October 27.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
10:06 PM
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Speaking of Beer...
Hey, it's Oktoberfest!
Saturday, September 17, 2005
7:53 PM
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Caseworthy
We're just finishing off a case of 2003 Sterling Vintner's Collection Central Coast Chardonnay, a particular favorite of Eliz's and a good all-around white.
Also enjoyed recently, if not in case quantities, were:
2003 McWilliams Hanwood Estate South Eastern Australian Shiraz. They know what they're doing down under!
2001 Columbia Crest Merlot Cabernet
2002 BV Coastal Estates Chardonnay Private Cellars - very smooth!
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Daylight Savings Time
Okay, I'm against Daylight Savings Time completely, but if we're stuck with it I suppose it's good that we get more time for Halloween.
Friday, July 22, 2005
10:32 AM
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Here's something to enjoy:
It's American Beer Month!
Cheers!
Saturday, July 16, 2005
10:47 PM
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Wow.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, talking to a reporter:
MAXINE McKEW: Prime Minister, if as you say you can't rule out that possibility that we could have potential bombers right here in Australia, what if today's announcement, this redeployment to Afghanistan and our continued presence in Iraq is all the provocation they need?
JOHN HOWARD: Maxine, these people are opposed to what we believe in and what we stand for, far more than what we do. If you imagine that you can buy immunity from fanatics by curling yourself in a ball, apologising for the world - to the world - for who you are and what you stand for and what you believe in, not only is that morally bankrupt, but it's also ineffective. Because fanatics despise a lot of things and the things they despise most is weakness and timidity. There has been plenty of evidence through history that fanatics attack weakness and retreating people even more savagely than they do defiant people.
Via Instapundit
Wow. This guy gets it.
I'll get back to beer and wine now, because really, nothing else needs to be said after that regarding the war. I've never seen it put more clearly.
Friday, July 15, 2005
9:03 PM
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Rumsfeld on Britain:
"If these terrorists thought they could intimidate the people of a great nation, they picked the wrong people and the wrong nation. For generations, tyrants, fascists, and terrorists have sought to carry out their violent designs upon the British people only to founder upon its unrelenting shores.
Before long, I suspect that those responsible for these acts will encounter British steel. "
I hope he's right...
Thursday, July 07, 2005
8:29 PM
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French Wine Boycott--Over!
Contratulations to the French (really!) for giving the boot to the Brave New World - bureaucracy-is-our-new-God EU constitution.
Update: George Will explains it all.
Sunday, May 29, 2005
8:34 PM
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Tiger In My Tank
Just did the big upgrade on my iBook - added a 160 gig external LaCie drive to back everything up; put in 512 Meg of Ram; and installed Mac OS X Tiger. The toughest part was unscrewing one little screw in the ram shield under the keyboard - I literally wound up dremeling the darn thing off - with sparks flying from inside the iBook! But everything works great - and now I can load up my new iPod Photo and Eliz's iPod shuffle!
The 'Spotlight' search is quite cool and fast, and the Dashboard widgets look cool - I've got to look around from some astronomy or beer ones!
Saturday, May 21, 2005
4:48 PM
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Last 'Enterprise'
Is tonight. It will be sad to not have new Treks to look forward to (at least for now). But like McCoy told Kirk, "It's not really gone, as long as we remember it."
Friday, May 13, 2005
11:00 AM
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Brain-damaged firefighter speaks for the first time in ten years.
Of course, stuff like this never happens.
Good thing he doesn't live in Florida.
Monday, May 02, 2005
10:14 PM
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Long Island 'Brew Food' Roundup
The Long Island Press has a quick roundup of our one brewery and four brewpubs on Long Island. I give Southampton the edge on both food and beer (and scenery), but the four pubs are all alot of fun. I particularly like Octoberfest at Black Forest. Haven't actually visited Blue Point, but had their fine brews many times.
The article notes brewpubs were 'all the rage' on the island ten years ago. It's funny how the biggest, most advertised brewpubs (specifically Long Island Brewing in Jericho and Long Shore in Garden City) from then are gone, while these relatively quieter, more out-of-the-way places endure.
Saturday, April 23, 2005
9:40 AM
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BXVI, part 2
Some guy named Ratzinger has six of the top 25 books on Amazon.com.
Friday, April 22, 2005
8:11 PM
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BXVI
Our prayers and best wishes for our new Pope Benedict!
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
8:26 PM
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Hunter Thompson, RIP
Yep, 20-some years ago, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" hit me like a freight train - I read it straight though.
ESPN has a nice tribute page.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
12:50 PM
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It's Just Getting Good!
Save Enterprise!
Update: The Save Enterprise site
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
11:34 AM
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New Year, New Column
Friday, January 14, 2005
1:49 PM
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"We are the first visitors to Titan"
This is so cool.
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