{"id":18789,"date":"2016-10-06T06:46:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=18789"},"modified":"2016-10-06T06:46:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:46:24","slug":"thursday-morning-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/06\/thursday-morning-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday morning update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought about going to the beer\/MEMpopS\u00a0pairing at the High Cotton taproom last night, but being a creature of habit I was too lazy to walk any farther than the Silly Goose. A little after 7 a photo of the pairing came across my Facebook timeline, and it made me wish I had gone!<\/p>\n

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Photo credit Zack Howland; used with permission<\/em><\/p>\n

I didn’t realize the popsicles would be IN the beer! So you get popsicle-flavored beer, and beer-flavored popsicles. That is really neat! These were the pairings:<\/p>\n

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  1. Scottish Ale and Reverb coffee\u00a0frozen pop<\/li>\n
  2. Hefeweizen and raspberry frozen pop<\/li>\n
  3. IPA and lime frozen pop<\/li>\n
  4. ESB and apple frozen pop<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I wonder if this will become one of those events that gets repeated a few times a year. I hope so! In the meantime, the brewery’s Oktoberfest<\/a> is coming up this Saturday. Free-flowing taps, some limited-release beers, traditional Bavarian fare, live music from Hiway Hi-Fi and others. Tickets $40, designated drivers $10, kids under 10 free.<\/p>\n

    That little taproom has really turned into a community gathering space and has put on some one-of-a-kind events. I wish I could spend more time out in The Edge, but…….<\/p>\n

    Never mind.<\/p>\n

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    If you like beer and you like a clean, healthy environment, you should consider coming to the Clean Memphis and Project Green Fork 3rd annual fall fundraiser<\/a> at the Memphis Made taproom on Wednesday, November 16 from 5:30 to 8:30. Great Memphis Made beer, food, a silent auction, and something they called a “while pull” in their Facebook event listing which I’m pretty sure is a typo and I don’t know what the correction is. $50 a ticket.<\/p>\n

    Local Memphis recently had coverage of the Flying Saucer’s presidential campaign glasses<\/a>, featuring “Slick Hilly” Clinton and “Small Hands, Big Plans” Trump. The glasses have predicted the winner the past two elections, which is pretty scary considering the Trump glasses are leading by a pretty substantial margin. Saucer manager Owen was interviewed for the story.<\/p>\n

    I had one of these when I was a kid!<\/p>\n

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    Family game console from JC Penney, 1976 pic.twitter.com\/vQYy5pcqQh<\/a><\/p>\n

    \u2014 History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) October 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n