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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

Chasing the Blues Away

Julia told me this morning that yesterday’s post was too depressing. After knowing me for forty years, she should know that’s a feature, not a defect. 

I didn’t head down to this part of the country to park the Scamp on the rear of a former minor league baseball field. I was waiting for Thomson Recreational Area to open up its COE campground across the Mississippi River from Clinton, Iowa.


It’s pretty much booked solid every weekend that it’s open. With dicey weather during the work week of May 1st, I put my reservation claim in on perhaps the best site.


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