Blackhawks – Red Wings Playoff Game 4.

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This afternoon Julie and I headed down to the United Center for the Blackhawks – Red Wings game. It didn’t go well. The Hawks were more or less ran out of the building.

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*Side Note:
Honestly, what is it with people from Detroit drinking beer with straws? If some one could possibly explain to me the benefit of using a straw I would greatly appreciate it. At this point I can only assume if you have an open beer in the city limits of Detroit some Detroitonian will spit into your glass as a sign of respect.

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Blackhawks – Red Wings Playoff Game 3.

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The Blackhawks have circled the wagons.  Last night the hawks won 4-3 in OT at the United Center to put the series 2-1.  The game started as with the hawks going up 3-0 rather quick but then Detroit simply turned it on.  There were a good number of Wings fans in the stands but much less than I would have expected.

The photographs above are of the OT goal by Patrick Sharp.
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The Hawks did pay a price for the win.  Martin Havlat was leveled by Niklas Kronwall late in the 1st period and will be out for game 4.  Nikolai Khabibulin also didn’t finish the game and word is he’ll also be out.

Those are two big losses but worth the win.

*Side Note:
All of my Blackhawk playoff photographs are here.

Beer Smuggling: 21st Amendment Beer.

21st Amendment Brewery

With beer being the last regional commodity Julie and I have a habit of smuggling beer.  During our trip we stopped at two breweries:  21st Amendment Brewery & the San Francisco Brewery Company.  The San Francisco Brewery Company only had gallon growlers so we figured that won’t be easy to transport via air but we did get two six packs from 21st Amendment Brewery:

Brew Free or Die IPA
There’s not much to say, I’m an IPA man and the Brew Free or Die  is pretty badass.

Hell or High Watermelon
I am not one to put fruit in my beer (Blue Moon & Corona) but by no means am I against beer that is brewed with fruit (Magic Hat #9).  The Hell or High Watermelon is pretty smooth and worth a try.

I’d highly recommend the San Francisco Brewery Company as it was a total old man bar.  The bartender (mike?) was completely drunk but he spotted me my first round.  If I had room in our suitcase and I didn’t think it would explode I would have bought a growler full of Albatross Lager.  It was great.