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I know. The masala was good, but at the same time, I'm left thinking, "What might have been ..." So now I'm googling around and found this cocktail recipe (which also sounds interesting) and this page called Hard Soups, which says about tequila masala, "This one is actually pretty gross but the pun was too strong for us to walk away." Somebody's gonna have to report back. And somewhere in another room of the house, my wife is typing on a post called, "Stupid shit my husband does."
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Hmm ... work on post-tenure review packet this afternoon, or pack my bags? ... OMW. -
In our household, the wife apparently believes the official domestic language is womplaining. On another note, she comes in a minute ago to tell me she's made some Indian food for lunch. Chicken tequila masala. To be fair, she's Costa Rican and is not really a language-oriented person. After 25 years of marriage, I've decided it's a convenient excuse to avoid seeking comprehension anyway -- just weigh risks and rewards, then move forward.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Thanks ... I'll take that. But you're confusing me with somebody from an honorable profession. I'm just another drunk, lazy faculty member from a smaller state school, trying to decide if AI-generated work makes grading more or less bearable. Not sure I could take being a college student today, though. Very different job outlook than for '80s and '90s grads. Even with better students, I find myself wanting to write, "Learn a trade!" Maybe I'll move to Austin and apply to mop floors at Celis, then use my critical thinking skills to work my way up. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Thanks. My initial thought was the traditional use, but I couldn't quite accept that conclusion -- maybe because that kind of brevity isn't my tendency. And there's always the possibility that his workplace is wherever he wants. As a guy who ever more frequently has a beer or cocktail to bring at least some enjoyment to grading student work, the latter explanation looked more sensible each time. Illusions shattered, but they're still good-looking beers ... -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Alright, I'm going to ask the dumbass question. imo = in my office? I've been scratching my head on that one with each of your beers. -
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I assume you mean the CW Milwaukee tap room, but if you ever get out to the central part of the state, the main brewery is in the little town of Amherst and also worth a visit (and shoot a DM if you get anywhere near there and need more drinking partners). I once convinced one of my great beer-drinking and hiking friends to bike the Tomorrow River Trail out of Plover to CW in Amherst on a Sunday afternoon. Told him it was only 24 miles round-trip from the trailhead. But it was the extra 7ish miles from our neighborhood to the trailhead (so 14 out and back) that made him want to kill me. Next time we'll haul bikes to the trailhead. Fortunately we also were able to rest-stop at a bar right on the trail on the way back and get some tap root beer. Some local ladies were kind of hitting on us and I think my buddy would have let one have him just to get a ride home. And, no, you don't want the pics rule to apply on this one at all. -
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I once thought Spotted Cow was overrated. My attitude changed after a hike on the Ice Age Trail down by Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, a few years ago. It was the only craft beer in Mama Mia in Baraboo, run by Macedonians, which has pretty damn good pizza. And Spotted Cow, as a fairly light ale, really hit the spot. I now appreciate it more, but think one reason others go nuts is that it just sorta says "Wisconsin" like @Hammerin Hank's TBC above says "Texas." And both of those states also mean beer -- probably for different reasons. I also didn't know New Glarus didn't sell out of state. Found out a couple of years ago when talking beer with my son's friends on dorm move-out day in Minnesota. His buds raved about it. So now we usually take some with us to the Twin Cities, and I always take it to Texas. My Galveston uncle had never had it when I brought him some along with the Point bock @Iceman talked about above. My uncle also passed last year, so that's yet another beer I'm happy to have shared. And of course @Al_4_ISU is right. New Glarus makes a ton of fine beers, and if you ever get a chance to visit, you should. Take a brewery tour and you'll get a token that gets you a New Glarus beer at most, if not all, of the restaurants in the town. We used ours at Sugar River Pizza, which sits on the Sugar River Recreation Trail and also makes a fine pie. (Apologies for no beer or trail in the shot, but it's a fine beer setting, right across the road from the Little Sugar River, which joins the Sugar not far from there.) -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
We were talking at happy hour last week about how some of us are more susceptible to buying beer just because of the label, and that brand is one that makes me guilty. Picked up something from TBC about three years ago -- can't remember which -- on the way back to Wisconsin for that very reason. The Texas FM sign is an icon and just looking at it makes me homesick. Stick it next to a Horn silhouette and I'm ready to daydrink. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Hayduke replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Yeah, but that's your choice. When my wife starts trying to exert dominion over the yard, it usually means non-voluntary work for me. That ain't therapy. It's like being forced to sit through aggy Muster (just to return sorta back to topic -- but I dunno, they seem so downtrodden lately that even schadenfreude loses some luster and yardwork discussions have to fill the gap). -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Hayduke replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Only until your wife starts filling your miserable little quarter acre with a corporate farm's worth of plants and plant-related infrastructure. -
For the sake of science, @irishtexan, I perused some mezcal old fashioned recipes and made a fairly simple (but probably too strong) variant: 1.5 ounces each of reposado and mezcal, a spoonful of agave syrup, three dashes of Angostura bitters and some orange peel with a cocktail ice cube. It was excellent, but probably so rich and satisfying that I won't drink again for at least a week and probably more, outside of our regular Sunday beer gathering. Thanks, @Butch Had Not, for the idea. I can see why it's your new favorite. It's probably obvious I'm not an old fashioned purist -- my first exposure was the classic Wisconsin version that would be too sweet and watered down with mixer for purists, but it was at a Christmas celebration that holds very fond memories for me. Longtime community journalists who I was freelancing for, at a historic supper club, so about as Wisconsin as it gets. The brandy-sweet version has become my holiday staple and I occasionally imbibe a bit much, especially if the Horns are doing something really big at Thanksgiving (or, as was too often the case in my old fashioned history, the opposite). Or at a gathering with friends and neighbors. Doesn't matter, but on at least one occasion I've thought, "Damn ... where did all that brandy go since Wednesday?"
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Oh hey dere. Sorry about that pedantic too, but nothin' that a little brandy won't fix for ya. Come on up and we'll rid ya of all your tics and probably give ya a few new ones. America might very well face a whiskey shortage if Sconnies drank old fashioneds in the traditional way. Korbel said a few years ago that Wisconsin accounted for just over half of the company's worldwide sales, which comedian Charlie Berens found disappointing (about the 1:04 mark if you don't want to listen to the whole thing). The great majority of bars and restaurants here ask, when anyone orders one, "Whiskey or brandy?" and "Sweet or sour?" But back to tequila and mezcal ...
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
First time I found that in the grocery store up here, I was overjoyed. Now Shiner products appear regularly at our Sunday happy hour. Bock is appreciated often and somebody picks up a Shiner sampler pack once or twice a year so we get to try all the prickly pear, peach, pecan and other stuff they're tossing into their brews. Shiner's another place on our pilgrimage list. Do they still pull a keg outside every afternoon, or is that a tradition they've let go of? -
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Thanks, @ztejas. Anybody who walks this earth and does some good deserves a tribute, however small. Craig wasn't a Longhorn but he loved to drink a beer and spend time with family. As rough as Surly can get, it's a place that understands the value of raising a toast, remembering to hug your loved ones, and help 'em out as you can. This is a great thread for that. So here's to y'all, too -- although it's just with morning coffee right now. -
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
That is a good one. Took a case to my uncle in Galveston last year while he was incapacitated but still able to enjoy some beers, and the bock brought him a lot of pleasure. They just had the Point Bock Run a couple of days ago -- always the first Saturday in March and celebrates, in part, the brewing of each year's batch. The race is generally pretty cold, which is why the ram on your fridge has a muffler and mittens. My neighbor worked it this year and said the cups of water had a layer of ice on top by the time they handed them to runners. But there's plenty of bock at the end! -
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Was planning on a Fat Tuesday beer and had something in mind, but got word this afternoon that my younger brother passed. He had ALS -- a brutal, brutal disease. We saw him at Thanksgiving and I was able to get out to the Detroit area to see him late last week. It was tough. We're all grateful he got his meds adjusted and died peacefully today. He was an unpretentious, big-hearted guy who never had his own kids but took in the kids of his two ex-wives and gave them a home. The first wife was a nutjob and he cared for some of those kids long after she was out of there (and long after a couple of them should have been, too). His second ex-wife came back and did most of the hard work of these last few months, repaying him for some of that generosity. The only time he got out here to see us, he spent a ton of time on the porch and deck smoking and drinking Point Special, which he loved until the end. There was still a full, and very old, bottle of it up on his shelf in November. Here's to you, Craig. Love you and glad you're out of pain. -
Smokey arroyo (grapefruit juice, rosemary simple syrup, lime, mezcal) was the cocktail we made with our neighbors with that first bottle of mezcal. Great stuff. Bought some premade cucumber and lime juice at Spec's on the way out of Texas last year and didn't try it with mezcal, but will next time. Thanks, @Matuka!
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Got a recipe for that? I've been in Wisconsin 18 years and the OF is pretty much the state drink (along with beer, of course). But I was somehow here for eight years before drinking my first one. Just started on mezcal a year ago and love it, but this was not a combo I had considered. Have tried a few other variants, though.
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I would be willing to sacrifice and force myself to drink a beer so that my kids could see some goats. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
Hayduke replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Our no-sunshine QB of the post-Manning future reminds everyone that Disney courtly romance stories are not our standard. -
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Bartender at HOMES Brewery in Ann Arbor said this was his favorite of their offerings last week, but only in pint cans, so I brought home a four-pack for happy hour. APHOS Czech Dark Lager. A little toasty, crisp, refreshing. Also had a Surly Axeman and a few swallows of Drekker's How Strange It Is hazy. Both good, but Axeman is better, IMO. @elguapo, given the other opinions above on Jester King, what's your take on their beers? -
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Can never go wrong with that one. Fairly common to find it on tap up here and it never disappoints. My happy hour buddies and I keep talking about a Michigan road trip and that's definitely on the list. Looks like they have a cafe with live music. I just drove through Kalamazoo a couple of days ago and If I hadn't been trying to get back home from Detroit by midnight, I might have stopped there. -
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Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Had never heard of Jester King, but looked it up. How's the pizza there? I don't suppose we'll be in danger of getting any of their beer up here, but appreciate the opinions. There's a similar place -- Stoney Acres Farms -- outside Athens, WI, whose pizza is pretty good and I think is the only one in the state that brews its own beer. I remember the beer being solid but that was back before I started trying to keep track of my beer consumption and opinions. And the symbiotic relationship between beer and pizza always seems to make both of them better. -
"Playfly is backed by Access Holdings and Sinclair Broadcast Group and is led by CEO Craig Sloan." https://collegesportswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/sec/2025/02/28/texas-am-playfly-sports-deal-explained/80849836007/ That's an interesting combination of DEI-driven company values and fairly conservative backers. And the article linked says Auburn and LSU are also signed on with Playfly, which seems to have a pretty large portfolio of clients. Bottom line for A&M seems to be that their advantage in funding probably lasted as long as it took for the ink to dry. Standard Liucci hype here, probably explained by his need to focus TexAgs attention elsewhere than fields and courts where aggy is stinking it up.
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