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My stepdaughter graduates in a week or so. We are having a party at a park for her and am expecting 100 to 125 people. I have the amount of meat down. We are serving pulled pork, which I am going to prepare ahead of time and vac seal and freeze and then reheat on site.
Here's my question. The second meat is going to be sliced pork loin that I am going to smoke and slice on site. What is the best way to hold the sliced pork loin? I figured I would put in pans and keep in chafers or drop the temp way down and keep in smoker. I dont know what kind of juice or broth to keep them in or if you guys have a better way I am all ears. Thanks, Ken
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WOONSOCKET- Jules R.C. Gadoury, 80, of Woonsocket, formerly of Blackstone, MA, died Sunday, March 24, 2013 in Landmark Medical Center. He was the husband of Dorothy M. (Riley) Gadoury, whom he married, September 26, 1953. Born in Woonsocket, RI, he was the son of the late Sarto A.R. and Ernestine (Roy) Gadoury.
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Updated Apr 15, 2013 - 3:04 pm
Tiger Woods called out by Lindsey Vonn's ex-husband
Woods' second shot hit off the flag stick and into the water, and the No. 1 player in the world elected to take his next shot from the original spot. Unfortunately, Woods' placed the ball two yards back from the original spot -- a big no-no in the sport -- and while he wasn't DQ'd for signing an improper scorecard, the 14-time major winner was assessed a two-stroke penalty by the tournament committee Saturday morning.
Ironically, Tiger's misstep was called in by an unnamed viewer who happened to be watching the tournament on television.
Outside of golf, Woods has garnered plenty of additional media attention in recent months for his rather public relationship with Olympic gold medalist skier Lindsey Vonn.
It seems her ex-husband, Thomas Vonn, isn't all that thrilled about the formation of the power couple. So much so that he jokingly took credit for Tiger's penalty.
No problem Masters tournament happy to call in and help. You always have to keep an eye on those cheaters ;)yhoo.it/Zh7TBu
— Thomas Vonn (@ThomasVonn) April 13, 2013
Let's be honest, petty isn't a good look on Mr. Vonn. His ex-wife is now with the world's best golfer, and he has to resort to potshots via social media. Advantage, Woods.
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Great Lakes Cleveland Brown Ale - Great Lakes Brewing Co.
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3.83/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Not your normal Brown Ale, more Hoppy than Malty. Citrus, and A little Nutty finish, Medium body, nothing thick and rich like an American Brown Ale. Maybe more like an English Brown Ale? Pours An Amber Brown color, a lasting head, Not 1 of my favorites, but I will buy again.
Serving type: bottle
03-27-2010 12:18:17 | More by beergod1
4.38/5 rDev +11.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Pours a thin layer of tan head over a clear and light brown-orange liquid. Smells chocolate nutty and a bit of fuggles hop aroma. Vanilla, toffee, and just a touch of a sour darker grain. Really quite nice.
Tastes wonderful. Wow, what a brown ale. Chocolate and nut with a nugget creamy character. Woody hop character, not as floral aromatic as I was expecting in flavor, based on the nose. End is dry with some sourish dark grain contribution. Carbonation is a bit too strong, as it cleans the palette and leaves a sting on the tastebuds. Hanging sweet in aftertaste with a bit of rising pine and clean alcohol. Md body and too strong of a carbonation. Creamy thickness to the mouthfeel that helps the beer.
Serving type: bottle
11-30-2007 06:09:20 | More by mentor
4.38/5 rDev +11.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Purchased at the brewpub gift shop in September, prior to Beer School. Cleveland Brown Ale has been brewed each autumn since 1988, but this is the first year (that I'm aware of) that it's been available in bombers. In order to avoid the fairly obvious association with the Cleveland Browns football team (nudge, nudge, wink, wink), the label features a happy looking bulldog who appears to be licking his lips. He must have just slurped down a Great Lakes beer.
Bright rust orange (darker than the helmets) with perfect clarity. Due to a minimal escape of CO2 on crown cracking, I gave the beer a spirited pour and was rewarded with two fingers of pale almond suffused with orange juice. The dense, bubbly foam is persisting nicely and is beginning to deposit thick sheets of clingy lace.
The nose is classic for the style (whether English brown or American brown, I couldn't say). In addition to well-toasted pecans and cocoa powder, there's an earthiness that makes me think Munich malt is in the house. Hops aren't jumping out of the glass by any means.
Leave it to Great Lakes to brew one of the top few brown ales that I've ever had the pleasure to consume. A quick run through my memory banks tells me that it's somewhere around fourth all-time, behind Surly Bender, DFH Indian Brown and Bell's Best Brown. That's mighty fine company, indeed.
I have no idea why the brewery says that CBA 'is best served at 45 degrees'. At the moment, it's at least 10 degrees higher than that and is improving noticeably with passing each minute, each passing ounce, each passing degree. I love the way the flavor profile is expanding in every direction to uncover flavors that weren't present in the first few mouthfuls.
Sweet and bitter are in perfect balance... if you're a hophead. The hop resins are cumulative and are threatening to become the defining ingredient as I get deeper into the bomber. The remainder of the surprisingly complex flavor profile consists of sugar-crusted chocolate wafers, pumpernickel toast, oven-roasted pecans, black pepper, grapefruit pith and pine needles. I might have to rethink those brown ale rankings and put this gorgeous ale up to second, just behind Bender.
With the wizards at Great Lakes at the controls, how could the mouthfeel be anything other than stupendous? Although it's far from big and is only marginally chewy, it's so incredibly smooth and summer-weight silky that I find myself looking forward to the next mouthful as much for the mouthfeel as for the flavor. The 'eye of the storm' carbonation is pretty close to perfect.
I try not to regret anything in life, but I regret not having brought home a few more bottles of this delicious ale when I had the chance. The $10 price tag had a lot to do with my decision. To be truthful, I wasn't sure that it could live up to the excellence of the rest of the GL lineup. What the hell was I thinking? Cleveland Brown Ale is a smashing success and easily deserves to be a year-round offering. In six-packs please.
Serving type: bottle
11-04-2007 16:58:35 | More by BuckeyeNation
4.33/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
I bought a very limited edition bomber at the GLBC last week. They are $10.00 a pop and according the the GLBC website there are still some available in the gift shop at the time of this writing. Poured into my pint glass. I drank this on September 30th as a toast to Michael Jackson. Anyways this beer pours a clear deep reddish amber brown color. White head is about 1/4 inch when poured before quickly settling to a decent sized surface layer with some good lace. Smoky, malty aromas are present along with some roasted nuttiness. Hints of cocoa and coffee are also present in the nose. Flavors of sweet, roasted malt and nuttiness are present along with a hint of chocolate Also some bitter hop undertones here. A simple, yet complex flavor. Has a crisp and smooth, full bodied mouthfeel with moderate to high carbonation. Easy to drink in the way well crafted beer should be.
Serving type: bottle
10-06-2007 04:18:46 | More by neenerzig
4.35/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Presentation: 12oz brown with a drink before date clearly marked.
Appearance: Dark brownish amber with a frothy mass of off white lace hovering on top.
Smell: Dark toasted bread ... hint of coffee also.
Taste: Medium to full in body with soft and smooth mouth feel. A bready malt sweetness flows all the way through ... though it gets slowly cut by the roasted / toasted malts and hops. The toasted biscuit malt seems to be dominant and a chocolate flavour comes forth as well as a pinch of sweet oily hop flavour and a ghost like fruitiness. The after taste has a faded yet lingering hop bitterness with a toasted / roasted flavour. A slight warming alcohol is felt about half way down the glass.
Notes: A yummy brown that Great Lakes a given birth to ... a proud beer to have in their seasonal (fall) line up. A real pleasure to drink.
Serving type: bottle
04-01-2002 00:44:14 | More by Jason
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3.98/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
On tap at Busy Bee
A - ruby amber with a thick, off white head that has great retention
S - caramel, nutty, bready
T - big citrusy notes, caramel, faint nuttiness
M - medium bodied, well carbonated
This is a decent brown ale though it is far more citrusy than it is malty. This is clearly a more Americanized version of an English classic. Nonetheless, this is a really nice offering that is both enjoyable and sessionable. It's definitely worth a try.
Serving type: on-tap
02-24-2013 23:20:58 | More by tdm168
3.28/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Poured from the tap a dark clear orange colour. Smells very sweet and malty with a hint of toastiness. Tastes malty and toasty with a hint of burnt and and slight bitter hop finish and aftertaste. Lingering roasted flavour for the finish.
Would I buy this beer again? Maybe.
Serving type: on-tap
02-02-2013 03:58:18 | More by NilocRellim
3.83/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from growler into a pint glass
Appearance – As suggested by the name of the brew the beer pours a medium brown color with a small tan head. The head fades relatively quickly to leave a light level of lacing on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is of roasted malt, sweet smells of caramel and brown sugar as well as some notes of a nutty smell. Mixed with these aromas are some light earthy hop smells which help to round out the malty and sweet smells nicely.
Taste – The taste starts out with a mix of sweet and some bitter. An earthy hop taste mixed with a caramel malt taste is strongest up front. The hop flavors dwindle some toward the middle with roasted malt flavors increasing in intensity. Some nutty flavors soon join the profile along with a slight increase in the sweet brown sugar and caramel tastes. In the end the hop flavors come back with a lighter bitter earthy hop flavor, leaving a still overall sweet, lightly bittered, and roasted flavor at the end.
Mouthfeel- The body of the beer is rather average in terms of its creaminess. The carbonation level is rather average as well, overall creating a very easy drinking brew.
Overall – A fairly sweet, but overall rather well balanced and smooth brown ale. It has nice flavors and transitions making it quite a nice brew to drink.
Serving type: growler
12-28-2012 03:21:33 | More by Darkmagus82
3.95/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
As a tribute to the Cleveland Browns football team, the Great Lakes Brewing Company devises a dark masculine and somewhat strong ale that's sure to win over the taste of burly linemen and yet easy going enough for kickers and punters.
Obviously brown in color, the beer hits the medium shade with fairly bright clarity and deep golden and ruby highlights. Its build up of foam is somewhat light in color and in confidence as a sheet covers the glass retains well and laces lightly. It has a nice cask ale-like appearance.
Nutty aromas are met with toffee, light coffee grounds, cocoa, and toast. Woody hop notes rise as the beer warms, and so do some prevalent alcohols through the dry toast character. Low in fruit notes, the scent seems to be all about the English malts.
Stronger than usual taste meet the tongue with the expected taste of toffee, toasted pecans, caramelized almonds, mild cocoa powder, nutty Kona coffee, and medium grilled toast except in elevated intensity. The dry toast taste allows alcohol to become part of the mainstay in taste and does so like mild vodka and dried cherries. Hop balance is wood tasting at mid palate and grown into a broad earthy bitterness to conclude the taste.
Medium bodied, but the beer seems lighter due to its dry toast textures and thinning alcohols. Despite added strength, the beer doesn't feel heavier than the normal English brown ale. Finishing warm and with a bitter alcohol bite, it's malty dry closure would well accompany a vast array of American burgers.
And if you're still upset about the kicker and punter references in my opening statement, you shouldn't be. To capture what's best about the Browns, the beer should be equally bland, uninteresting, and forgettable.
Serving type: on-tap
12-07-2012 03:42:45 | More by BEERchitect
4.2/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
This brew was served from the tap at The Old Toad in Rochester, NY. It arrived in a generic pint glass glowing a golden, reddish amber. It held a one and a half finger head of creamy, tan bubbles, leaving thick and spidery lacing as it receded at a medium pace. A chill haze was noted, but no sediment was seen. Carbonation appeared average. The aroma gave faint booze, red cherry sweetness, caramel roast, dried strawberry sugars, and faint resiny hops. Mineral and muddiness came to the malts as the drink warmed. Our first impression was that the flavoring was rich with caramel sweetness and roast to the malts, and the entire sip was very malt forward. The flavoring opened with caramel and roasted barley. The hops also came quickly, with greenness, and under ripe tree-like bitterness and oiliness. The middle peaked with an enhanced roast of those bready, caramel malts. Yeast and sweeter flashes of cooked caramel sugars mixed in, with a light buttery quality pulling us to the finish. The end was more bittering, with raw walnuts, salt, roast, fusel ethanol, and light phenolic plastic. Again, there were flashes of cloying caramel roast. The aftertaste breathed of light metallics, boozy punch, bready yeast, pumpernickel, sweet caramel, and earthy, oily hops. The body was medium, and the carbonation was medium. There was full, creamy slurp and smack, with nice froth and glug. The mouth was coated with oily slickness and foam, leaving things wet. No real dryness was palpated. The abv was appropriate, and this beer drinks way easy.
Overall, what we enjoyed most about this brew was the flavoring. There was such a rich maltiness throughout, with the heartiness of bread and yeast to back it up. There was also a surprising level of oily, green hoppiness for balance and bittering. The nose is comparatively light, but improves with warmth. The aforementioned heartiness lends to great drinkability, and this beer disappears before you know it. This is a great brown ale, and will suit you across any season or occasion.
Serving type: on-tap
12-03-2012 15:04:09 | More by TheBrewo
3.55/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Served in a tumbler at Firkin.
Solidarity continues with another random Great Lakes keg that I know Dave's connections helped to secure for this event. It pours a clear sunset amber topped by over a finger of cream foam. The nose comprises straight barley, light biscuit, grass, light orange peel, light maple syrup, and brown sugar. The taste brings in more of the same, though now the grass is a bit stronger and is joined by some mild greens. The body is a light medium, with a light moderate carbonation and a fairly dry finish. Overall, a nice little brown ale, one that doesn't excite or impress, but one that succeeds at providing a generally tasty beverage.
Serving type: on-tap
11-19-2012 22:29:07 | More by TMoney2591
3.43/5 rDev -12.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Poured from 64oz growler.
A- Pours a brown color with a light red tint to it when held to the light. One finger light tan head shows light retention. Some specks of lace and not much else.
S- Light overall on the nose. Roasted malts with a hint of nutty ending in the front of the aroma. Caramel malts come through a little more toward the middle with some piney/earthy hops in the ending of the aroma.
T- Earthy hops in the front of the beer show this isn't a typical brown ale. Caramel malts with a light toasted character to this end the front end of the flavor. Middle of the beer shows off some nutty like flavors along with some light green apple like flavor. Ending showcases the caramel malts along with earthy hops. Alcohol is light on the ending.
M- Medium mouthfeel. Carbonation is light for the style. Caramel/toasted malts, nuts, and earthy hops are left on the palate. Aftertaste is mostly light alcohol, caramel malts, hint of toasted malt, and light earthy hops. Flavors were a little underwhelming in the balance..with the hops showing a little more than it should have. No real off flavors although there was a light green apple flavor to this. Light alcohol drying left on the palate.
O- Overall I thought this beer was above average but far from being on top. A typical brown ale with a non-typical hop presence would be how I would describe this beer. ABV is really not there and doesn't really sneak up on you. A nice try for the style and like I said a little above average.
Serving type: growler
05-25-2011 04:31:39 | More by alleykatking
3.15/5 rDev -20.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
On-tap at the brewpub, poured into a shaker pint.
A: Poured a clear brown color, with one finger of light brown head.
S: Smell was of caramel and brown sugar, and not much else. Quite sweet.
T: Tasted similarly, with sweet malts all over the place on this one and a bit of nuttiness. Bordering on cloying, but check it out if you like sweet brown ales.
M: Thin-bodied, moderate carbonation, with a sticky sweet finish.
D: Not really longing for another glass of this... but I might have to pick it up again if it's one of the brewpub's on-tap exclusives.
Serving type: on-tap
03-14-2011 06:32:20 | More by AwYeh
3.1/5 rDev -21.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
"Rich brown ale with toasted malt notes" according to the board hanging above the bar. ABV 6.0% $3 for the pint glass during happy hour.
A Light brown 1-inch head slowly dissipated. Medium brown slightly hazy appearance.
S Medium roasted malts, caramel aromas, along with some yeasty/fruity esters. Hint of piney hops.
T Medium hop bitterness and flavors with subtle malts. Expected a more malty, roasty brown ale flavor. Some bready, yeasty flavors as well, with lingering sweetness on the finish. Maybe some acetaldehyde (green apple) which indicates fermentation issues or new beer. May improve with some aging.
M Medium bodied, smooth.
D Not as good as expected for an offering from GLBC. An ok beer to wash down a burger or pizza, but not one of their best.
Serving type: on-tap
11-30-2010 15:45:01 | More by TravelinJones
3.78/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Was able to try this on tap at the 2009 release of GLBC Barrel-aged Blackout Stout. Review is from notes taken on 10/13/2009. Pour is from the tap to a pint glass.
Appearance: Pours a rich caramel brown with nice ruby highlights; comes with a thin skim that is uneven and far from full; body shows no signs of carbonation; thin washes of oily lacing cling loosely to the sides of the glass.
Smell: Very faint like most GLBC beers are, slight grassy hoppiness to it, but that's it, and it strikes me as kind of odd as I find most browns are a little nuttier in the nose.
Taste: Hops are very prominent and add a great dimension to something that I expected to be a bit maltier and sweeter; a bit of a metallic bite in the aftertaste; really no malty backing at all like I would expect from a brown, and as it warms the alcohol (while a bit lower than other beers that I had over the course of the night) becomes much more prominent.
Mouthfeel: About what I would expect - not what I would call thin but not thick or chewy either, just about right for a brown and it's filling like I wanted; provides a moderate coating; very slight carbonation keeps it pretty smooth; a nice cooler weather drink.
Drinnkability: I would typically expect something a bit nuttier and sweeter in a brown, but the hoppiness is really amped up in this and provides a certain refreshing quality to it. I would gladly drink it again.
Serving type: on-tap
11-02-2009 04:28:41 | More by bamadog
2.5/5 rDev -36.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
"Rich brown ale with toasted malt notes" according to the board hanging above the bar. ABV 6.0% Poured from tap at the brewery by Steve, afternoon bartender at Great Lakes inside into a clean, clear glass. $4 for the pint glass.
A Generous light brown 2 inch head over a translucent medium brown body. Head took 2 minutes to dissipate down to a trace amount on the top of the beer. 4.0
S Medium roast malt brown ale smell with some muted hops to the nose. 4.0
T Hops dominate in the typical Great Lakes Brewing Company way. Here was a chance at a nice, classic brown ale and the floral hops just come in and ruin the taste spectrum. Really, there might be a nice brown ale in there somewhere but the hops just make all of that less able to be tasted. 2.0
M Bitter hops grapefruit tartness dominates. As mentioned there is the possibility of a nice, rounded brown ale underneath but the hops take over here again, eclipsing the mouthfeel and making it less desireable. I suppose hop heads may like this but could they like hops taking over every beer? 2.0
D I finished the pint but really, would have been more drinkable as a straight ahead Brown Ale. This leaves me wondering what a Brown Ale from Great Lakes could taste like. This one here tastes like too many of their other hop centric offerings. 2.0
Serving type: on-tap
10-21-2009 19:17:23 | More by adamette
3.53/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Pint at the brewery during dinner after the bourbon event. Had it with Fish and Chips with plenty of malt vinegar, yum!
A: Pours a deep brown with some ruby highlights in the light. Decent clarity. Short frothy head on the pour with a bit of retention and some lacing.
S: Not a ton of aroma. Some toasty malts with pleasant sweetness.
T/M: More of the toasty malts with a bit more sweetness that the nose. The sweetness balances the hops out. Hops are a bit citrusy. Body is medium or so with decent carbonation.
D: Manageable ABV and drinkable. Not the most interesting beer, though.
Serving type: on-tap
10-20-2009 02:10:39 | More by pwoods
4/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Grabbed one of these with dinner at the brewpub last week.
Beer pours into the pint glass a ruby-hued brown. It is fairly clear, with no head to speak of - just a floaty white skim. Beer appears to be pretty light, and there's not much visible throughout.
Aroma is not much to speak of, as with many GLBC beers I've had. There's the slightest trace of toasted grains and a hint of citrusy hops.
Beer turns out to be a well-hopped brown, with some sticky piney hops and bitter grapefruit hops really adding dimension to the well-roasted and not sweet malts. The balance of the two leads to a well-balanced toasty and crisp ale. The body is smooth and moderately carbonated. I would say the drinkability is all-day baby, but that's strangely unlike its namesake.
Serving type: on-tap
10-19-2009 08:19:45 | More by kels
4.18/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Had this one on-tap in the basement of the Great Lakes brew pub. Poured into pint glass.
Notes taken from cellphone.
Probably more of an American Brown Ale due to the high amount of hops.
The tap list had this listed as 6.0% ABV.
A: Dark Brown body with a soap-bubbly white head. The head had a little less than two fingers depth. Left some nice, delicate lacing that layers after each sip.
S: Smelled very hoppy first off, followed by biscuity, bready and sweet malts. Maybe a touch of roastedness.
T: Again, immediately hit with the musty and earthy hops. The hops are then balanced by nutty and toasted malts that leave the mouth slightly sweet. The hops linger in the aftertaste.
M/D: This beer is surprisingly quite filling and pretty heavy. Medium carbonation and leaves a creamy feeling going down. Highly drinkable.
I've been wanting to try this beer for about a year now, not only because I love Brown Ales, but I'm also a big fan of the Cleveland Browns. So, needless to say, I was thrilled when I heard they brewed another batch. Hopefully they'll bottle it again!
Serving type: on-tap
10-17-2009 13:39:18 | More by TheViolator666
4.38/5 rDev +11.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Unretired, brewpub only special, the new version clock in at 6% ABV.
Amber-glinting brown with a tight ecru foam.
The nose is modest, exuding cocoa, burnt toast, roast, and vague pine traces.
Tastewise, it strikes that delicate Brown Ale toasty/roasty balance between dusty coca powder, burnt grain, and carob. There are sweeter elements here too, more persuasively a trickling hazelnut sweetness and a flash or two of dates. The close strikes another balance between the more acute hoppiness of pine, and a staying herbal dryness.
Medium bodied, with a subdued CO2 level. It teeters towards the filling side for the style, but remains a quaffer.
Exactly what I'd expect a Brown Ale from GLBC would be like, this is an Edmund Fitzgerald for the style...classy and classic.
Serving type: on-tap
09-14-2007 05:03:03 | More by cokes
4/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
In a bit of a coincidence I happened to be in Cleveland the day before the first Browns game of the year, and after convincing my family to go to the Great Lakes Brewpub for dinner. They just happened to be having a Pig Skin Classic event, with smoked pork specials and a limited release brewing of Cleveland Brown Ale, of which I bought a growler
Pours a dark brown color, deeper than what ive become used to as an English brown ale. almost no head on this thing on the pour.
First thought I had on the aroma was heavy bread... definitely some roasted qualities, maybe some coffee too...
definitely a heavy drinker. roasted malts throughout, some hoppiness too, none of the sweetness thats started to plague mass produced brown ales.
As much as I felt like a traitor drinking a beer named after and specially released for the Cleveland Browns during the Steeler game, I really enjoyed the beer. Its a pity that this beer is only a special release
Serving type: growler
09-09-2007 21:16:22 | More by perfectkaos
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Late one April after the rafting season, I was at the Cave Camp building a trail around Laguito Azul to Lost Beach with the caretaker of the camp, Checho. Earth River had been using the camp for three seasons and yet the top of the 300 foot granite monolith that rose straight out of Laguito Azul and could be seen from everywhere in the camp remained a mystery.
Stopping to rest, I looked over at the granite tower, tracing the sheer, unbroken 300 foot north wall to the top. I turned to Checho and asked if he had any idea what was up there. We communicated in a cross between Spanglish and sign language, yet we always seemed to know what the other was saying. For years I had wondered about the mysterious tower but the foreboding walls guarding the top had always seemed insurmountable. Checho gave me an odd sort of look as if to say, why would anyone in his right mind care. After all, you couldn't graze sheep or cows or sheep up there and it certainly wasn't worth breaking your neck to find out.
Things had remained pretty much unchanged at the Casa Piedra farm for the four generations Checho's family had homesteaded it. He was born in the primitive turn of the century farmhouse his great grandfather had built on the plateau overlooking the river about a mile from Zeta Rapid. Cut off from the outside world, they lived subsistently off the land without electricity, running water or indoor plumbing. Checho's children, starting at age six, rode three hours by horse, in all weather conditions, to reach the nearest public boarding school where they lived for a week, returning only on weekends.
Nothing much had changed at Campo Casa Piedra until the day Checho saw a strange yellow raft pass by. In the ensuing years, Earth River purchased the property around Zeta Rapid including the strange tower for their wilderness camp and Checho became the caretaker. He took tremendous pride in his work as the camp's handyman, builder and guardian. He was a gracious host with a wonderful smile that filled the camp and everyone who met him liked him.
Checho's relationship with me grew as we spent countless days in the off season designing and building trails while exploring every nook and cranny of the property looking for things river guests would enjoy seeing or doing. Every nook and cranny with the exception of the top of the mysterious tower which was never far from my mind and the furthest from Checho's.
The day I mentioned the top of the tower, Checho's incredulous reaction soon turned into an understanding nod. Without a word the trail work to the beach stopped and the next few hours were spent bushwhacking through dense thickets of bamboo and bramble, casing the base of the tower in search of some sort of chink in its seemingly impenetrable armor. Finally on the southeastern corner we found what looked like a possible route. It started with a sheer 80 foot wall, broken in the middle by a ledge large enough to comfortably stand on. It looked as if we could make it past those first two pitches, then we could probably bushwhack and boulder scramble the rest of the way up.
Scouring the area we found a dead, six inch diameter tree stripped of limbs and bark. It looked long enough to reach the first ledge and light enough to move. We wrestled it up against the wall and shinnied up. When we were both safely on the middle ledge we hoisted the log up to repeat the process to the top.
I shinied up the tree to the safety of the second ledge. All was going smoothly with Checho until he began to tire a few feet from the top. I knew something was wrong when he began muttering something in Spanish I couldn't understand. Rather than giving up and sliding back down to safety, the intrigue of reaching a place he had spent his whole life below was too great and Checho made a desperate lunge for the top. Grabbing the lip with one hand, he kicked wildly sending the log crashing down and leaving him helplessly dangling 80 feet off the ground. I quickly grabbed his hand while Checho managed to secure the other. As I pulled the overhanging lip caught his chest. Already exhausted from the previous climbing, Checho was losing strength fast. Time paused for several minute like seconds. Finally we managed to inch and tug his body to safety.
Checho bent over trying to catch his breath while I contemplated our predicament. The log was now laying uselessly on the shelf halfway down. It was small solace that it had stopped there. Shaken but with renewed resolve, Checho signaled that he was ready to continue. Why worry about getting down, I thought, when we were still on our way up.
With Checho now leading, the steep route took us up and over small unexposed ledges and through choked brush. As we neared what appeared to be the top it was getting harder and harder for me to contain my anticipation but I stayed back knowing this was Checho's moment.
Crashing through one last stand of intertwined brambles our growing excitement was abruptly broken by a final 40 foot, featureless granite barrier. There were no dead trees to shinny up and even if one of the bent over stunted live ones had been long enough, without a knife or saw there was no way to cut it. Searching for some sort of weakness in the rock, we bushwhacked to the right until confronted by a 250 foot drop off. Moving left, our hopes slowly dwindling, we came upon a large vertical crack. A single chink in the stone gates that guarded the mysterious upper world. The crack was just wide enough to squeeze into sideways. Placing our backs against one side and pushing off with their arms and legs, we inched our way within the confines of the opposing walls. After about 15 feet, the crack widened giving way to a steep scree slope laced with roots which we used to pull themselves up.
Suddenly Checho let out a wild scream. He was on top of the world. I was just a step behind and looked around in wonderment. It was one of the most incredible views I had ever seen. Looking like melted emeralds, the majestic Futaleufu stretched out in front of me as far as I could see. Everywhere we turned we were engulfed by the lush canyon and the snow-capped peaks beyond. It was the height of fall and a wide swath of brilliant red lenga trees ringed the mountains beneath the snow line.
The top was much bigger then I had thought, about the size of an Olympic swimming pool. In a spontaneous moment we jumped into each others arms and began dancing around like children screaming exuberantly in our native tongues, neither of us having any idea nor caring, what the other was saying. That we had no safe passage back down was now but a distant memory.
We broke our embrace, walked out on a knife-edged like face that jutted out from the main tower and sat down to take it all in. Until that moment Checho told me he had never quite understood why people would travel halfway around the world to visit his little piece of Patagonia. How could he I thought? He was now learning to row a raft on the dangerous river with the unpredictable currents his mother had so often warned him about. It must have finally all made sense; all those years of toiling on the land, of enduring one harsh Patagonia winter after another in a seemingly endless cycle. Aside from the joy of his children and his passion for rodeo, this strange job with its crazy adventures must have been the most wondrous thing that had ever happened to him.
As we sat there on that ledge, Checho told me about his father and grandfather. He wondered what they would have thought about this. All the things that had made their farm the least desirable in the valley, I thought, the massive granite outcropping and its extreme isolation, were the very same things that now made it special to so many people.
Checho's responsibilities with Earth River had grown over the years to the point where he was setting up ropes for the Tyrolean river crossing and managing three additional workers. He was able to put away enough money to buy a pickup and build a modest house in the town of Futaleufu. Not much more than a two room shack, it had electricity, running water and most importantly was only a few blocks from the school. Never again would he have to ship his children off each week for eight months of the year. Never again would he have to helplessly watch as they endured three hours on a horse through driving rain, wind and sleet.
With our condor-like view, we spent the next hour pointing out Zeta rapid, the stone hot tub, Lost Beach, the main stone shelter and the brilliant blue water of Laguito Azul. Checho told me about his dreams for the future. More than anything else he wanted his children to be guides especially his one-year old son Alfredo. He enjoyed living at Casa Piedra during the summer months when the weather was good and the kids were out of school. Even with all the past hardships he loved the place passionately.
Suddenly the wind picked up, yet down below the trees were still.
"Mucho viento los Torres", Checho said, "Tower of the Winds", I said. He nodded.
As we headed down, our thoughts quickly switched to the final 80 foot cliff. I always kept matches with me when I worked in the woods. It was a habit I had gotten into during my kayaking days when you never knew when you might get stranded for the night. We reached the area of the stunted bent over trees, cleared away an area around the base of two and built a tee-pee fire around them.
When the trees had burned through, we carried them down to the lower cliff and tied the tips together with our shirts. Using Checho's belt, we carefully lowered the makeshift ladder over the edge and climbed down the mass of intertwined branches to the middle ledge. We lowered the original log to the ground and slid down.
The moment Checho's feet touched down he crossed his chest, dropped to his knees and kissed the ground. The sun had set and the temperature had fallen considerably, yet even without shirts we were so happy to be down in one piece that the cold didn't matter.
While we were feeling our way back to Checho's house, my mind wandered to the top of the tower. In a career that had taken me exploring all over the world, the experience that day on top of that tower was one the most moving. It wasn't just about the trials, tribulations and final reward of the discovery, but the thought of getting all guest safely up there to experience it.
That evening we sat around the cook stove in Checho's tiny kitchen eating homemade bread with cheese and sipping mate. We were exhausted mentally and physically and hadn't said a single word to each other since getting down from the tower. It had been a wild day. Especially for Checho whose strange journey had really begun three years earlier. I imagined that for the first time in his life the past, present and future were one.
The next day while working on the trail to Lost Beach, Checho stopped and looked over at the tower, his eyes tracing the unbroken North Wall to the top. In a day it had gone from just being there, in the way of everything, to somewhere and the center of everything. Billowy white clouds were flying across the sky just above it and yet down below where we were it was still.
"Necesita todo cliente vamous alto los Torre." All the clients need to visit the top of the tower, he said.
I nodded and smiled, I had never mentioned my thoughts on this to him.
In 2002 our dear friend, Checho Berrera passed away. The Earth River staff and guests who knew him will remember Checho as a kind, gentle soul and a gracious host who made everything work so smoothly at Campo Casa Piedra. We will never forget his smile and wonderful adventurous spirit.


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The IET Transport Sector, Parsons Brinckerhoff and HS2 Ltd are collaborating on a programme of knowledge dissemination related to the rail system design of the proposed new UK high speed railway line – HS2. The collaboration aims to share the technical knowledge, innovations and challenges of delivering a large scale transport project.
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14 February 2014
Location-based services on mobile devices used to be the preserve of app-happy shoppers and geo-social networking. Now, their usefulness is being explored for more serious – even mission critical – situations.
13 February 2014
Digital signage and display screen technologies are getting closer together – and are now integral to helping us find our way in the world.
10 February 2014
The Swiss rail network's reputation for efficiency and punctuality owes much to British engineering. We talk to Diccon Bewes, whose book 'Slow Train to Switzerland' explains why.
One of the UK's nuclear submarines will undergo an unscheduled re-fuelling after a potential problem was uncovered by a test reactor.
A new engineering prize for universities and research institutions in sub-Saharan African countries has been launched by RAEng.
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