On Saturday June 15th the Auburn Hills SBA hosted its inaugural Cooley Cares Golf Outing. This events primary goal was to raise money for Cooley Cares an organization that provides thanksgiving dinners for needy families. On Saturday golfers began arriving from all over the state of Michigan including students from the Auburn Hills, Lansing, and Grand Rapids campuses. Aside form the 58 student golfers the outing was also attended by Dean Nusbaumer, 6 Professors, local attorneys and even two judges. The day started when golfers began arriving around 1:00 so that they could get in a little short game practice and mingling before the 2:00 shotgun start. Players making the turn had an opportunity to enter the putting contest, which boasted prizes donated by LexisNexis and John Hohmeier. Although the skies began to cloud up the golfers were spared from having to break out the umbrellas to stay dry. When Play was finished the golfers enjoyed dinner and an awards ceremony with prizes donated by Gamedayeats.com, Westlaw, and various local restaurants.
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About two weeks ago we were contacted by Johnsonville Sausage to promote their Summer contest and the answer was an outstanding yes. They have some really cool prizes to give away so you don’t want to miss this opportunity to catch yourself some cool Summer prizes and cash. Ok, so now that’s out of the way let’s get down what you can win and how you can win it. I’ll start off with the video submission, the first 50 videos submitted to Johnsonville at www.ShareYourVille.com will receive coupons for free Johnsonville products. All you have to do is upload a video and you could be having free brats during the excellent Summer grilling season. Now to the cash prize of $2500, which could set you up for the Summer with all the grilling products and food you would need. Simple to enter, just check back here for the secret code words that will get you 5 extra entries when you enter them, that’s it. Just go to www.ShareYourVille.com Here’s the first one you will need, “This Week’s Johnsonville GRILLVILLE Secret Code Word is BRATS”. There’s $2500 of cash on the line so get in on it and enter. Make sure to check back here weekly for more code words. I’m not really sure where the misinformation came from, but the bartender at the A&L tavern (lots of taps, very little care shown for beer) told me the brewery used to be across the street. Or very close by. But that they had since moved operations elsewhere … by which I’m going to assume she meant south of Salem, in Turner, OR? For you non-Oregonians, that’s about an hour away in the best of traffic – and to me at least, a big commute. I have an e-mail in to the brewery for some clarification, and will report back (hopefully when I review their allegedly 130+ IBU IPA …).
 Beer Name: Hop Scotch
1 tbsp. oil 1 large onion, thinly sliced 1 (12 oz.) pkg. all beef sandwich steaks, cut into wide strips 1/2 cup FRANKS® RedHot® Buffalo Wings Sauce 8 slices provolone or American cheese 4 (6 inch) hoagie rolls, split
To add some more spice to the sandwich, using pepper jack cheese is always a nice little addition. Enjoy, I guarantee this will not be the last Buffalo Cheese Steak Sandwich you will ever make, I promise you that. Picked up this growler at the soon to be closing Laurelwood Pizza Pub, over my first actual pizza from the restaurant. It was good, but the beer was great. I had a pint with dinner, and ended up taking home this growler, too. Unfortunately, I failed to write down the last word in this beer’s title, which was written on the chalkboard behind the bar. It was called El Rojo … Sorachi? Sorachi is a type of hop, so that’s plausible, but my understanding is that Sorachi is supposed to have a distinct lemony flavor, and I didn’t pick up on that at all. And then Matt refers to El Rojo as being an Amarillo-based single hop red … which seems more like what I experienced, but it would be difficult for this designer to mistake the word “Amarillo” for “Sorachi,” even at a distance. I spot type like some people spot cars. Anyone know the story behind this beer?
 Beer Name: El Rojo
I’ve had them before, they are good, but I put them in the category of buffalo wings for the novice. That being said, here’s a recipe for all you boneless wing cravers. 1 pound Boneless, Skinless, Chicken Breast, 1" squares 3 cups Flour 1 1/2 cup Buttermilk 1 1/2 teaspoon Salt 3/4 teaspoon Black Pepper Vegetable or Peanut Oil Hot Sauce: 3/4 cup Hot Sauce 1/4 cup Water 1 tablespoon Butter 1/4 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
I almost never buy Dead Guy. I understand it is very highly regarded outside of Oregon, but among beer geeks I know, it’s mainly ignored. The reason? The most elemental of all: price. On a wall of well-made Oregon craft beer, Dead Guy, while a very fine beer, is almost always near the $10/six-pack price point. Everything else hovers somewhere between 6.99 and 8.99. That extra buck or three for Dead Guy never seems worth it, when I could so easily grab a sixer of something equally (or sometimes more) delicious. But in a bar environment, for some reason that unfortunate “price lead” is reduced. A 12 ounce Dead Guy costs the same as a 12 ounce bottle from Deschutes, Full Sail, or Bridgeport. Is the bar making less margin on Rogue than it is on Deschutes to keep pricing simple for consumers? If not, why is Rogue priced so different from its peers in grocery stores? I’m no economist, but I will say this – the high cost of Dead Guy in grocery stores has trained me to overlook it there, as well as in bars. If I were Rogue, I’d try to find a more logical, consistent niche: high price, superior quality everywhere OR same price, same quality (as peer brands) everywhere.
 Beer Name: Dead Guy Ale I can’t say for sure, but this may have been the first craft beer I ever tried. I think wheat beers are good gateway beers for lovers of American-style pilseners like Budweiser or Miller Lite, and it worked for me. I think they’re good starters because they’re typically fairly light-bodied, -colored and -alcohol, the three most common complaints I hear about craft beer. They do tend to have a little more flavor than industrial lagers, but I find it’s best to start people with a bit more flavor and work up to more body, color and booze. Plus, people love putting fruit on their beers. I know beer geeks hate it, but how can you argue with a little bit of festivity? Sure, sure, it masks the flavor … blah, blah, blah. But I bet you squeeze a little lime on your taco, don’t you? Is there mayo on your BLT? I thought so.
 Beer Name: Wheat
Soooo we decided to bust this favorite out, we found one on the internet, but it needed some fine tuning GameDayEats style. We couldn’t let you eat what we found, just wouldn’t have been right. NOTE: Using our hot sauce kicks this up a few notches on the heat scale, if that’s the kind of thing your into. 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 pounds ground chicken or turkey breast 2 stalks celery, chopped 1 yellow onion, finely chopped 2 to 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped or grated Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1/4 to 1/3 cup hot sauce, we prefer Gamedayeats.com Wing Sauce 1 cup tomato sauce 1 cup chicken stock 8 good quality burger rolls, split and toasted 1 cup blue cheese crumbles 2 large dill pickles, chopped
Enjoy, my sloppy friends!
Being a fan of my old college roomies website, I had to purchase a can of Game Day Light and give it a shot. I plunked down my hard earned buck and a half, headed home and popped the wide mouth top. Let me begin the actual beer review by saying, you get what you pay for. This 24 ouncer was priced low for a reason. Its golden hue was reminiscent of your typical light beer from any macro brewery. Upon first sip, I had flashbacks of my college days when money was tight and cheap beer was shotgunned at fraternity parties every weekend. You probably remember the beers I speak of. The ones better known by nicknames such as Natty and Beast. Game Day Light is right up there with them. I might as well have drank this bad boy out of a paper bag behind the store I bought it from; would have put the beer “more at home.” Possible food pairings for Game Day Light are: ramen noodles (pictured), macaroni and cheese, three day old pizza crust, a can of beans over a fire in a train yard. Yeah, this stuff is that bad! Sorry Game Day Light, but much like the grade I received in Algebra II, you’re getting an F. |
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