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The Spousal Unit and I are big fans of Gibbet Hill. We've booked the silo a few times over the years for family events. Great food and we love the chill atmosphere.

I was reading that this July was the wettest on record locally. Our pond usually is a good couple of feet below its overflow pipe this time of year but today it was running hot through the pipe that eventually ends up in the Assabet River...

Does Jim Rice play at Wedgewood? Big guy like that I'd have figured he'd be slamming the long par 5s at the International in Bolton 😁

Cheers!
That was at the International back when they let riff raff like me in 😁
 
Tweeked the back doing something..IDK, existing?

This deserves an early start. Oh look, the devil now has a twin...

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Here's some irony. I was watching a YouTube video about the Feb-21 freeze grid outage inTexas when the power kicked off. Our house got hot and fast. 3rd time in 2yrs+ we've lost power when zero, that I can remember, in the previous 27 before that. Hate to point fingers at a certain side of the American party...😔 Ercot refuses to connect to the national grid. As a consumer , I know way too much about our grid system, that should say something. Anyway was drinking this...

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Tonight is episode #4 of the ongoing Samuel Smith variety pack saga. Tonight’s patient is Samuel Smith’s delicious Oatmeal Stout, a fantastic ale from the Old Brewery in Tadcaster. Somehow their box wording “Ales and Stouts” might make you think Stouts aren’t ales, but they are ales as we all know.

I was clicking as fast as I can, but the solid quarter inch head on this glugger disappeared about as fast as buddies who owe me money. Sporting decent lacing, that also went away quickly. Weird, you usually have a few cherished moments to enjoy a meaningful beer relationship together…. Or maybe it’s me!

First big gulp is satisfying, almost had an estery fruitiness to it, with the solid chocolately-cocoa “stout thing” going on. Totally drinkable though, this isn’t one you sit there sipping like a girly-man. Big mouthfuls, this stuff is great. Again, bottles are too small, but thankfully they are using 12 ouncers rather than the 11.2 ounce baby bottles. What, do I drink this with a pinkie in the air? C’mon guys figure this out. BIG CANS please!

Actually I’m going to back-pedal on that insensitive girly–man remark. I have a daughter who loves stouts like they are the latest frapa-mucha-chino. She reminds me it is close to her connoisseur coffee habit, but in a different way. She loves stouts! Maybe passed between generations, a cherished father-daughter thing.

Stouts are by nature low IBU. This one has the smoothness and silkiness that an Oatmeal Stout would imply. Medium to medium low carbonation, classic bottle, fussy foil packaging, I want this in a BIG CAN… Please! Great beer.

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