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Beer Review: New Glarus Apple Ale

Fans of the almost ubiquitous Spotted Cow know New Glarus Brewery well. They make unique craft brews all the way up in New Glarus, Wisconsin, just west of Madison. I've been on their tour at least once.

This ale is described by New Glarus as:

Apple Ale sings with the fresh crisp taste of Wisconsin Apples. Our Brewmaster begins with a brown ale base employing Wisconsin farmed barley and a blend of apple varieties grown in Gays Mills. Our apple growing friends squeeze them especially for this brew. Expect this Ale to pour a beautiful copper color. The fresh bouquet of Apple will rise to meet you even before the glass touches your lips. So be sure to sip slowly and enjoy the fruits of a Wisconsin harvest. 

My brother and his wife introduced me to this beer. I found it to be the best, and I mean the best cider-like beer I've ever tasted. The apple flavor is immediately present in this ale. It really has a fantastic, yet fruity bite.

If you give the beer 5 to 10 minutes to warm a bit, the apple flavor becomes more fruity -- leaves a really nice echo in your mouth.

This is by far the best apple flavored ale I ever had. Better than some ciders even.

New Glarus may never brew it again, so I'm glad I had a chance to savor it.

I'm an "Evil Little Thing" too

I just bought my Evil Little Thing" t-shirt to support Jessica Ahlquist and help send her to college.

Be sure to get yours!

Dear lord...

FUCKING STUPID!

When in doubt, mock the LLC wingnuts

Digging around in my files, I found this entry from a few years ago. I wrote it for my brothers blog, Alien Relay 2.0,  on Living Lake Country to mock the wingnuts who post there. I've not blogged at LLC for years (I was banned because I mocked their pet wingnut Jim Hayett) and yet, these wingnuts still hate me and drag my name up whenever they can. I don't post there any longer, not even on my brother's blog.

Anyway, this entry is still pretty funny to me.

No, its not that we love freedom -- you know -- the freedom to marry who you love no matter what the other person sex is. And the secret is not that we think you should be allowed to freely worship without state interference with the will of the state imposed on you. Those are no secrets. Everyone knows that we liberals proudly affirm human rights in all its splendid diversity. It is why we liberals are tarred with that awful "bleeding heart" so much.

Ho-hum.

We know that words like that are not substantive criticism, but annoying, irrelevant mud-slinging which obfuscates honest debate between honest partisans. You know, all that talk talk talk from the right-wing you hear in every local and national market that says with a straight-face that Obama is really a Muslim-socialist-negro, surrender-monkey, cross-dressing Nazi, who would very much like to kill poor granny since Obama was born in Russia anyway.

Those "facts" are as irrefutable as Iraq attacking us on 911! 

Yeah, we know those words and thoughts like that is the refuge of a party who have thrown reason and honest debate to the roadside. Hey, its also no secret that we love humor and we appreciate comedy! We like to think right-wingers are trying to be funny and attempting to humor us. Thank you!

No, the real secret is that the liberal elite -- at least in the Lake Country -- is a secret "terrorist" organization bent on world dominion beginning with the destruction of conservative America. Our weapons are tools like reason and the Constitution. This organization is animated alone by MC Pickard. 

The, "Obamanatii.”

Our puppets are legion.

Now that you, dear reader, have discovered the penultimate of all secrets! We are not making this up.

We, the Obamanatii, with our secret handshake proclaim our motto with pride "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet!"

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Proving again, that most garden-variety Christians really do not read their bible and when they do, they rationalize around nasty parts because they are entirely more ethical than the god they purport to worship.

Again, what kind of God is this?

Fred Phelps believes in a God who sends people to rape children as punishment for perceived sins against himself.

Republican Bob Marshall believes in a God who punishes mothers who have abortions by afflicting their subsequent children with disablities.

And now Republican wingnut presidential candidate extraordinaire Rick Santorum believes that rape that ends in pregnancy is a gift from the God he worships.

Well, you can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, that that, too, could ruin her life. And this is not an easy choice. I understand that. As horrible as the way that that son or daughter and son was created, it still is her child. And whether she has that child or doesn’t, it will always be her child. And she will always know that. And so to embrace her and to love her and to support her and get her through this very difficult time, I’ve always, you know, I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you. As you know, we have to, in lots of different aspects of our life. We have horrible things happen. I can’t think of anything more horrible. But, nevertheless, we have to make the best out of a bad situation.”

Let's see if I got this correctly. Forced pregnancy, by rape, is a gift from God? Santurom's god cannot figure any other way to give this gift, so he does so by allowing rape of women? That is a gift?

I suppose if Jesus' mother, Mary was raped by Santorum's god, he would approve too.

And Santurom and his ilk worship this God?

Unbelievable.