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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

San Sebastian del Oeste

 From December 2021

This is the final post from our excursion to San Sebastian del Oeste from Puerto Vallarta.  Once we exited the bus, we were on our own to explore this mountaintop village.



It's a quaint little town, but I would rather have been refining my tortilla-making technique at the little roadside bakery. Things were completely shut down here for about a year during the pandemic, and we got the feeling that the damage to business was considerable.  This part of the excursion was anticlimactic, but it was still fun to walk around.


After an hour of wandering, it was time for the long ride back down the mountain to Puerto Vallarta.  We made it back in time for dinner and sunset.


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