Draft vs. Bottle
The age old question: What tastes better? Draft or bottle? Will helps you navigate this dilemma as best he possibly can.
Archery Hunt at Webb WMA
Doyle's taking to the woods for three days with nothing but a bow and some sharp, pointy sticks. Stay tuned for the play-by-play to see whether he goes big or goes home empty handed.
The Presidential Debates: The Burden of Free Voting
Debates have a certain allure to them. Portrayed as fair and balanced political clashes, they resemble a WWE angle rather than a true-to-form fair and impartially moderated back-and-forth. Could career politicians and the GOP/Democrat parties working together be at fault?
Apple Pie Moonshine Recipe
Check out a one-of-a-kind, easy, legal moonshine recipe that you can create with a few simple ingredients and the store bought version of moonshine.
Eagle Stories: Whiskeying the Great Barrier Reef
Mr. Joseph Bryan tells us of his adventures in the Autralian wilderness and along the Great Barrier Reef! Yet another adventure of a young analog guy on a digital medium.
Just some brief footage of me checking out a helmet cam.
Untitled from Sean Robinson on Vimeo.
An argument that I’ve had many times in the past with the uninitiated beer drinker is the case of draft beer supposedly being better than bottled beer. In some senses this could be correct but I have to tell you now: It’s the same exact beer when it leaves the brewery. In commercial brewing it’s not uncommon for a brewery to carbonate one big batch in a tank only to then keg half and bottle or can the rest of the batch from the same tank.
Now here is where the fun begins. Traditionally, when I’ve heard this argument it has focused on a light beer that shall not be named. It’s not that I don’t ever drink that beer or that it doesn’t have a place in this world, it’s just not interesting or challenging to me but for the sake of the argument we’ll use the example here. Just keep that beer in mind as a base example while you read this article.
It all really comes down to the other two tiers of the alcohol system here in America. Let’s start with the second/middle tier of alcohol sales. Breweries in a lot of states (especially the south) have to sell the bulk of their beer to a distributor. In some states (like in South Carolina) a person can come in an buy about two gallons a day directly from the brewery. But as I said, the majority of the beer a brewery produces leaves in a distributors vehicle. There are some good and knowledgeable distributors and there are some bad distributors that really don’t care about the final consumer or the product. Typically, you’d like your packaged (bottled or canned) products as well as your kegs to be picked up in a refrigerated truck and kept cool until they reach the customer’s mouth. Cold keeps a beer’s flavors intact.
Well I’m headed off tonight at exactly 12:01 in the morning to drive all the way up to Barry, Illinois to do some muzzleloader hunting with my brother, father, and a few friends. The last time we all went hunting together we checked out some elk and antelope hunting in northwestern Colorado which I absolutely loved. I shot the biggest elk of the trip about three hours after getting off of the plane and I slept, ate, and caught up on reading the rest of the week. Here’s to hoping that happens again! This time we’re after the huge white tail deer of southern Illinois!
You can follow my adventure on twitter – @NWFrontiersman
Tomorrow night I take off to southern Illinois for a muzzle loader deer hunt with friends and family. I absolutely cannot wait and am really excited about this as I’ve been waiting for some time to go on a trip like this. The last time I went on a hunt like this I killed the biggest elk of the bunch on the first night in camp and spent the rest of my time relaxing and catching up on sleep and reading.
I was going over everything I needed to pack and bring while waiting on some beer to boil last weekend and realized I needed a checklist.
First things first: The checklist I usually use that I found off the internet isn’t really gonna work. It’s more for overseas trips or cruise trips and the like. You can find it below if you’d like. It’s a unisex list so don’t be put off that I have female geared stuff on my list.
I decided to make my own simple checklist in Excel. Take a look at it and see if you can maybe use this one day.
I’ve also put it into pdf format so that you can go that route if you don’t have any office programs.
It’s that time of year again and I’ve been slacking off! Sorry but I’ve been very busy with work lately! So if you haven’t heard about Movember you should definitely check it out. It’s essentially a foundation that helps raise money and awareness to battle testicular cancer. Read the info below and donate please!!! Any amount can and will help!
Here’s the official schtick:
“It’s Movember, the month formerly known as November, which is dedicated to growing moustaches and raising awareness and funds for men’s health. I have joined the movement and will be donating my upper lip to the cause for 30 days. My moustache (Mo) will spark conversations, and no doubt generate some laughs; all in the name of raising vital awareness and funds for cancers affecting men.
Why am I so passionate about men’s health?
*1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime
*A man is diagnosed with prostate cancer every 2.2 minutes
*1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime
*24% of men are less likely to go the doctor compared to women
Please support my efforts by making a donation at http://mobro.co/greenvilleSC.
You can even write a check payable to “Movember Foundation”, reference my name and Registration Number 696614 and send it to: Movember Foundation, PO Box 2726, Venice, CA 90294-2726
We only have a month to grow Mo’s and raise awareness and funds, so please come along for the ride.
Funds raised will help make a tangible difference to the lives of others. Through the Movember Foundation and their men’s health partners, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG, Movember is funding world class awareness, research, educational and support programs which would otherwise not be possible.
For more details on how the funds raised from previous campaigns have been used and the impact Movember is having please click on the links below:
About Movember
Prostate Cancer Foundation research
LIVESTRONG
Global Action Plan
Thank you for donating at http://mobro.co/greenvilleSC and for helping me change the face of men’s health. Go the Mo!
Movember is a registered 501 (c)(3) charity, donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.”
Annnnndddd… here’s my weak Mo!
Good-to-Know Guides is a continuation series here at NWF that focuses on giving you pertinent information in a simple, easy to read guide. Most of these are were not created by us but simply found on the internet and we felt it best to share it with you. You can check out other Good-to-Know Guides by clicking here.
I won’t lie to you. Sometimes I get confused about the difference between certain cuts of meat. What do they all mean? What part of the animal is this? It can be frustrating and hectic waiting in line and not knowing the difference between one cut of meat and the other. Well, here you go. Courtesy of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association I give you…
BEEF. MADE. EASY.
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Got any interesting links or videos that you’d like to see on a future links post? E-mail them to me at “NewWorldFrontiersman -at- gmail -dot- com” or tweet them to me@NWFrontiersman.
This week we’ll be giving you a short links post because the latter half is a longer video.
- There was the rise of craft brewing, then the brew pub. Then it was the microbrewery. Now, it’s the cool kid in school is the nanobrewery. Of course if you’re not running it out of a restaurant, the economics of the beer game won’t allow you to jump to true production without some big investments. And trust me, you gotta take a big jump when getting into the deep end.
YouTube/Twitter/Podcast You Need Right Now
This is sorta kind of SFW but if you have any reservations I’d suggest checking this out from the comfort of your home. It is a Vice segment, after all. Also, takes about 30 minutes.
Click through to see video, it had autoplay so I gave this a page break.
I’m going to go ahead and play spoiler and let you know that I didn’t kill anything. If that’s all you wanted to know, then you’re free to leave. However, this morning was a great hunt and was almost the best ending I could imagine. Almost.
After having some action in the swamp bottom last night, I decided to give it a go again. The wind had shifted to a nor’easter, which was actually better for this spot anyway. I arrived early, slipped in quietly, and settled into the stand at 6:15. It would be just about an hour until first light – plenty of time for the woods to quiet down.
Just after it was light enough to see, I heard the pitter-pat of soft footsteps on the fallen leaves. I knew it wasn’t a deer. It was just too quiet. But, I looked over my left shoulder and saw it coming towards my stand. A coyote.
Now some of you (like my wife) may say “How can you shoot a coyote? They’re like dogs!” But I promise you, there is nothing worse for an area’s wildlife population than a coyote. First of all, they’re not native to SC and as such, they have no natural predators. This has allowed them to breed like rabbits, wreaking havoc on the native wildlife all the way. I may not have the numbers quite right, but I heard that DNR released a study this year on fawn (baby deer) mortality rates. If I remember correctly, 70% of all fawns die and 90% of those that die are due to coyote predation. Again, the numbers might not be quite right. Regardless, coyotes suck. Period.
Anyway, this dude came slipping in to about ten yards from the stand, and was lucky enough to catch me reaching for my bow. I can assure you, I would have put an arrow through his heart if I could have gotten drawn on him.
Not long after the coyote encounter, I again hear footfall on the leaves. This time, out in front. I raise my binoculars and catch a glimpse of a doe moving through to my right, following a trail that brought her just inside of bow range. She never stopped, though, and I watched her as she crested the hill behind me onto the oak ridge.
Since the rut is in full swing, I had a feeling that a buck would probably be following behind her soon, and about five minutes later, my feeling proved to be correct. I heard him first, but then quickly saw that he was sporting headgear as he slipped through the swamp in front of me, hot on the trail of that doe. With that, let’s take a quick timeout.
