Category Archives: Beer

Fish Fry Season

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As the 2013 Fish Fry Season has come to a close I believe it has been one of the best in recent memory. Todd and I have managed to hit three Fish Fry’s in four weeks:

The quality of the fish at St. Andrew and St. Alphonsus was great. St. Andrew was a little better being that it was sourced from New England Seafood Company but both were real hand battered fried fish for $10. For the BYOB we made stops at either Half Acre Beer Company or Atlas Brewing Company for a growler and a couple of bombers. It just seemed like the way to go.

With St. Andrew and St. Alphonsus kicking up their Fish Fry game we no longer have to travel all the way out to St. Ferdinand’s on the West Side, plus these were all BYOB. Nothing against St. Ferdinand but their fish was of the elementary cafeteria variety but let it be known they cornered the market in Fish Fry entertainment.

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Illinois at Ohio State

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This past weekend Julie and I headed to Columbus for the Ohio State – Illinois game which the Buckeyes cruised to a 52-22 win.  This is the first Ohio State game I’ve gone to since the 2010 Miami game.  We were supposed to catch the Penguins – Blue Jackets game on Friday but alas the NHL Lockout continues.  This is the second time that I’ve seen Ohio State go to 10-0 at home, the previous time being against Minnesota in 2002, both games were blow outs.

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Side Notes:
* Most of these photographs were taken by Julie and the full set can be found here.
** On Friday we stopped by campus to checkout some of the new buildings including the Ohio Union, The William Oxley Thompson Library and we got the grand tour of the RPAC facility.
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*** We did some beer smuggling along the way.

Inaugural Homebrew Harvest

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A couple weeks ago, Todd and I hosted the first annual Homebrew Harvest at his place. Todd, along with his friend Ryan, are also home brewers so we decided to host a party this fall with each of us supplying two different beers. The turnout was great and the beer was drank (which is always a good sign). Julie and I brewed a Blueberry Ale and a Stout. We’ve done the Blueberry before but this was our first stout and it was really good. I’m pretty sure it was gone by the time the party was over.

We kind went all out this year with signage, name tags and rules. We also tried to do some hand painted pint glasses but I wasn’t able to come up with a suitable paint in the week I had to prepare. Next year we’re expecting bigger and better things. We had a great turnout with well over 30 people, a 3 dogs and 2 babies.

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