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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

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I'm glad that we were able to arrive on Padre Island a day early.  The chances for beautiful sunrises and sunsets are slim for the next week according to the weather forecast.   In fact, there's a better chance of some rain.

We still got up before "sunrise" and took a nice walk on the beach, observing some pink behind the clouds.  Breakfast was cereal, along with my home-roasted coffee in the french press.  Then Julia got that look in her eyes that spells trouble.  "I'd like for us to go play pickleball in Port Aransas."  Um, okay.  I was planning for a more lazy day.

Community Park's pickleball courts were busy with Winter Texans from the Midwest playing pickleball.  We ended up playing for over two hours.  Nice group of people.

 

Afterwards, we stopped at Stingray's Taphouse and Grill for a wood-fired pizza and a beer from Nueces Brewing.  By that time, Callie was quite frantic that she wasn't going to get a walk out of the excursion, so we took a walk up the Port Aransas beach.



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