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Home Brew Day: A look at our home brewing process
Saturday was the perfect day to get out the home brew setup and get the first beer rolling for the season. To start…we decided to go with a bourbon porter!…
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Straight to Ale: The Taproom
So I know we are starting with a lot of Alabama breweries but it really has to do with my travel schedule right now. So I have had the Monkey…
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Beer Review: Stone Brewing Citracado Double IPA
Whenever I am in the liquor store and see a special release from Stone Brewery, it is really hard to say no. There are very few breweries out there that…
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Avondale Brewing: The Taproom
So I was passing back through Birmingham, AL this week and decided to stop by Avondale Brewing on my way to the next stop on the trip. Avondale was awarded…
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Good People Brewing: The Taproom
I was in Birmingham, AL on Tuesday so I decided to stop by Good People Brewing. There are only tours on Saturday and Sunday so I sat in the taproom…
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Spring 2016 GA wannaGOFAST: New Personal Best!
It was a great weekend at the wannaGOFAST GA 1/2 mile event. I really look forward to this one as it is 2 hours from my house. There were a…
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wannaGOFAST VA 2016 Recap – NOPOWER Cadillac CTS-V
A friend of mine reminded me that I needed to get back to recapping the events since I forgot to do the Florida event…so here we go. The event in…
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176.74mph!!! 2015 September wannaGOFAST GA Event Recap
What an awesome weekend of ½ mile racing. I really don’t even know where to start so let’s just jump into it. The September ½ mile event in GA is…
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May 2015 GA wannaGOFAST Recap – NOPOWER CTS-V
Another 1/2 mile event in the books! This was one I have been looking forward to for awhile. The fall GA event is always huge and this year wannaGOFAST added…
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2015 wannaGOFAST Virginia 1/2 Mile Recap
Last Friday, in my typical fashion…I got up early and rolled out with a friend of mine Mark and headed up for the wannaGOFAST VA event in Hot Springs, VA.…