Starkweather Beer Company
When I moved back to Madison to attend law school in 1987, we moved to a crappy little apartment near the banks of Starkweather Creek on the unfashionable east side. Today, the east side is booming, and one of the newer brewpubs is called Starkweather Beer Company. It was Saint Pat's Day. While Guinness is a decent light-bodied stout, I opted for Starkweather's dry Irish Stout, named "Jamestown Jackdaw." Coming in at 5.9 ABV, it had a malty chewable backbone. It's a new favorite stout for me. Julia had Late Winter Haze, a New England IPA that didn't have as much fruitiness as she likes in a hazy. It was still well-executed. We walked down the street to the Harmony Bar, where Julia enjoyed a complete corn beef and cabbage dinner. I opted for the Reuben sandwich. Mine was washed down with an Edmund Fitzgerald porter from Great Lakes Brewing. Julia enjoyed her Chaos Pattern IPA from 3 Sheeps Brewing. Both are great beers. Justin update: After a long h
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When I'm home I spend a bit of pretty much every day "camping" in The Van, unfortunately camping in his pop-up out by his barn is not part of my nephew's ordinary day, but that's his life for the next 14 days - - -
On the other hand, it's been disappointing to see the attitude of EVERY PERSON FOR THEMSELF rather than setting up distribution centers for paper products and reminding everyone to practice safe-sex (There's PLENTY of TIME!)
How're Allie & Justin?
Glad to hear Julia's Dad is back at home.
Allie and Justin are both healthy and will probably be living with us for months to come. Justin's college classes are online for the rest of the semester. Allie is working full time as Justin's caregiver and pitches in on our firewood harvesting project on the hill. Her marketing job search has pretty much dried up; the only offer that she's received turned out to be taking temperatures for $18/hour, but she turned that down for a number of reasons. It was supposed to be for a marketing position. They asked what she would be willing to do. She said anything. When they said take temperatures, she said, well, almost anything but not that.