Turkery, Accidental Aging wine and other random things

Well this week I talk about the pork dinner from last pubcast as well as dinner of at my friends house. We had a wonderful smoked turkey, home made corn bread stuffing and lots and lots of GREAT FOOD!! thanks guys

Also there is yet another gift pack so I can get more glassware YAY DUVEL!!

I give a brief explanation of how I came to better beer thru better wine. Its an odd circular route but hey it works for me. There is random things about squirrels and using beer to kill slugs.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Wikimanual_of_Gardening/Slugs

Read thru it you will see it works :)

Also I had a question about some other good stouts and I give a short list of some of the ones to try
Guinness
Beamish
Murphy's Stout (family plug :) )
Young's
Victory Storm King
Old Rasputin
Edmund Fitzgerald

Also how I accidentally aged some beer that turned out great.

So that is a brief idea of what to look forward too.

Link time
Young's
http://www.youngs.co.uk/
Shiner
http://www.shiner.com/
Duvel
http://www.duvel.be/
Port Wine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_wine

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thanks

Chimay, Glassware, Pork Roast, Winter Warmer

Well this week is a mix .. like most weeks are.
I went to Sam's in Downers Grove and picked up a chimay three pack with a chalice!!

It is way cool!!!

Here is the Chimay Site
http://www.chimay.com/index.html
Take a look around there is a lot to learn besides beer. they have cheese! Yum!

Ok now on to the food
http://recipesbycindy.homestead.com/RoastPork.html

I want to thank Cfahooligan on Beer Advocate for posting this.. It looks great and next week I'll let you know how it turns out.

Winter Warmer beer. I had the Great Lakes Christmas Ale. What a wonderful beer this is and I will have it with dinner for sure.

And finally Glassware

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/101/glassware

Lots to learn there. Check it out, its a great place to read up on glass styles and beer to put into them.

As always the podcast is at
http://murphyspubcast.mypodcast.com/


Oh yeah the wassail song

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiWASGLOUC;ttWASGLOUC.html

ESB better Bitter Beers

Hi there its yet another new week. This week I have some news on Russian tap that pours beer four times faster than regular taps. Also some news on an aged beer coming from Lunar Brewing Company. I was thinking about things this Russian tap says it can do. I mean I know faster is better but their tap works on plastic bottles. I don't know about that.
Also the beer this week is an ESB Extra Special Bitters. One of my Favorite styles of beer.
Thanks for coming around to listen again.
Any way I have some links for you

Breckenridge Brewing
http://www.breckbrew.com/

Summit Brewing
http://www.summitbrewing.com/

Left Hand Brewing
http://www.lefthandbrewing.com/

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Welcome to the DARK SIDE

Well this week we had a bit of a beer .. err I mean home emergency. Our fridge died so I had to get the apartment complex to let us use another fridge in an empty apartment. The beer though is staying here with me in a cooler.

Important things first you know. Also this week's cast is about dark beers and some of the things people believe about them. I think dark beers get a bad rep. because of the color. Dark means heavy and thick. yes some are but most are not and if people would give it a chance they would find out that these beers have a lot to offer.
As I said I did for get to mention my black beer chili so I will give you that recipe as well. as the links to the sites mentioned
Sprecher Brewery
http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/index.php
Leines' brewery
http://www.leinie.com/

Now for the chili
I use a crock pot to let is sit all day and get all kinds of tasty
1lb ground beef
2 cloves garlic
1 can tomato paste
3 cans tomato sauce
1 can black beans (or use red if you like)
2 table spoons of cumin (more or less to your taste)
1teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon red pepper
4 dashes Tabasco
1/2 cup green onions
1 flat black beer (I use Sam Adams black Lager)

Fry up the beef, onions and garlic
drain off the fat and place in the crock pot then add the rest of the ingredients to the pot and cook on low for about 6-8 hours.

Serve with a good dark beer, shredded Cheddar and corn bread and you got a meal.

Also thanks once more to The Lodge and hello Tim and Ryan I hope you are listening.
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