Half a Blog Post

First, a thanks to the emails, phone calls and comments about my mom. Means a lot.

Second, it's Miami game week, let's go Hokies and beat some Cane Ass. My boy Dexter has the right idea! Great, great show ... must see Showtime Tv, along with Californication.

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Just finished a southernpigskin column, an open letter to Sean Glennon. A thank you letter, while he isn't my favorite Hokie, he has gotten a lot of shitty treatment he did not deserve. Should be out tomorrow nite.

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I won't have a post tomorrow nite, busy doing charitable things, but I may link it late. I think it's pretty good. Maybe I should push for a charity car wash?

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College Kid Jealousy

Sent from my boy Will, who wishes this class was offered 17 yrs ago. Damn, I feel old.

Wisconsin College Offering Beer-Making Course

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Jon Roll, an instructor at the University of Wisconsin, wants to make one thing clear about a new course creating buzz on the Madison campus. "This is not a course to help kids go out and slam beers on Friday night," he said.

Since the school announced it would launch a class this spring on beer brewing - one of the nation's first major colleges to do so - undergraduates have been scrambling to sign up, graduate students have been quick to offer their assistance, and medical students have been wondering whether they too can participate.

But Roll, who will teach the course, insists that has nothing to do with the school's reputation for beer guzzling, made evident by its No. 1 party school ranking in recent years by Playboy and Princeton Review, or by Wisconsin's binge drinking rate - the highest in the country.

No, he says, interest in the course springs from the region's long history of making beer. The course, in the university's bacteriology department, will focus on fermentation rather than consumption.

MillerCoors donated $100,000 in equipment that can make 10 gallons - roughly two cases - of beer at a time.

So what's going to happen with the final product?

"The students will sample it and critique it," Roll said. "But beyond that we'll probably dump any excess. We have absolutely no plans to distribute or sell it."

The BCO agrees with Will, however 10 gallons of homebrew equals 4 cases of beers.


Other Random Thoughts

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• Still giddy about the State Penn loss
• and the Hokie football team looking ... like the Hokies of years past.
• This weekend is awful, gawd awful for college football viewing, which means crazy outta the blue upsets?
• Hopes the Terps rebound at home and take out a Tarhole team for me
• Basketball season starts this weekend
• Gobbler Country is a very cool and well done blog, link here.