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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rondar on July 20, 2008, 06:57:32 PM
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We grow our own beef, as we live on a farm in kansas. We had our beef processor make some beef brats out of some of our meat. Got a package of brats right now simmering in dark german beer, and will simmer an hour or so, then grill it to crisp it up on the outside. On top of that we make a sourkraut topping using sourkraut, vinegar, anise seeds and sugar. The saurkraut topping gets simmered about an hour or hour and a half in the vinegar, anise seed and sugar until the sourkraut is a little carmeled from the liquids evaporating. Its just fantastic outdoor summer eating, and of course ya gotta wash it down with a warsteiner german beer. :aok
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I just found you on Google, I'm on the way over... :D
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C'mon over got leftovers that gonna be even better tomorrow. It was fantastic tasting.
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Where at in Kansas Rondar?
Im headed up Lawrence way the end of this week....
:aok
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warsteiner german beer. :aok
"Life is too short for cheap beer." - Warsteiner quote from a case I saw while touring the brewery in Warstein, Germany last spring. It just so happens that the company I work for is on one end of Warstein and the brewery is on the other and occasionally a few kegs just happen to make it into the containers we get from Germany. Typically we like to have them "sent" over in the winter so the beer can stay colder.
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I just found you on Google, I'm on the way over... :D
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Man hat sounds good Rondar!
I need to get back on the farm.
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Repoman I liveby a town on the west border of Kansas, little town called Tribune. We are 16 miles from Colorado. Was just in lawrence last weekend. Daughter lived there for 8 years and we moved her to KC.
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Google Earthed Tribune :aok Beautiful area, little bit of irrigation to the east, what kinds of crop do you get there, how many cuts of hay?
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Repoman I liveby a town on the west border of Kansas, little town called Tribune. We are 16 miles from Colorado. Was just in lawrence last weekend. Daughter lived there for 8 years and we moved her to KC.
I suppose she was a Jayhawk?
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We grow our own beef, as we live on a farm in kansas. We had our beef processor make some beef brats out of some of our meat. Got a package of brats right now simmering in dark german beer, and will simmer an hour or so, then grill it to crisp it up on the outside. On top of that we make a sourkraut topping using sourkraut, vinegar, anise seeds and sugar. The saurkraut topping gets simmered about an hour or hour and a half in the vinegar, anise seed and sugar until the sourkraut is a little carmeled from the liquids evaporating. Its just fantastic outdoor summer eating, and of course ya gotta wash it down with a warsteiner german beer. :aok
Do you have some spare room in the barn? I am looking to expand my brewing facilities :aok The wife says we are running out of room. (She will never say that we have too much beer, though, as she drinks as much as the rest of us :lol)
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/Beer/100_0877-1.jpg)
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how many times have you posted that same pic Von :)
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how many times have you posted that same pic Von :)
Do you want a new one? I brew at least once a week, but it looks the same. A bunch of 5gal carboys spewing yeast and Kreusen into a water filled trash can.
This one is convenient, and it's on my photobucket page already.
:P
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:lol just messin with ya Von. But i would like a taste test :t
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wheres kansas?
kidding i know where it is, i live in colorado, :D ;) :)
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Can anyone tell me if they have tried this beer? Looks great, but can't get it in Florida. Those of you that live in Cali may know. Would appreciate any further info on it.
http://hangar24brewery.com/
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Yes Repo, daughter is a Jayhawk. She got her masters there. Baitman, we dont grow hay here where we live, and it is all dryland farming for us. We grow wheat, millet (birdseed) and some milo. Have a few cattle around too.
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I have been looking for some more farmland in another area to help mitigate the crop failures. I Would like a dryland or irritation (yes I spelled it correct) farm 8+ quarters in the belt from Texas up to Alberta or Saskatchewan. Been looking for 16 months now, need to be in an area that I can grow land base. I would prefer to grow cereals (Durum, Red Spring, barley) oil seeds (Canola) and peas.
What is your area like, does anyone grow malt barley? Winter wheat?
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I have been looking for some more farmland in another area to help mitigate the crop failures. I Would like a dryland or irritation (yes I spelled it correct) farm 8+ quarters in the belt from Texas up to Alberta or Saskatchewan. Been looking for 16 months now, need to be in an area that I can grow land base. I would prefer to grow cereals (Durum, Red Spring, barley) oil seeds (Canola) and peas.
What is your area like, does anyone grow malt barley? Winter wheat?
winter wheat, yes. red hard winter wheat, usually tam 111 and t84 for us. we grew some barley about 20 years ago but area just is not set up for much more than wheat millet milo sunflower soybeans and corn for most part. Barley is so darn itchy I dont really want to be around it much either, although milo is itchy also. spring wheat just does not do well here at all.
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:lol just messin with ya Von. But i would like a taste test :t
In 5 years squeaker!!! Paging Mom and Pop Banshee7! :noid
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winter wheat, yes. red hard winter wheat, usually tam 111 and t84 for us. we grew some barley about 20 years ago but area just is not set up for much more than wheat millet milo sunflower soybeans and corn for most part. Barley is so darn itchy I dont really want to be around it much either, although milo is itchy also. spring wheat just does not do well here at all.
Seems like from what you are growing that the summers are hot. Must have good heat units for corn, soybean and sunflower. Is the soil a dark brown loam? Do you have much winter kill in the wheat or do you get a good snow cover. What rain fall do you expect in the summer. Sorry about all the question :salute
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Seems like from what you are growing that the summers are hot. Must have good heat units for corn, soybean and sunflower. Is the soil a dark brown loam? Do you have much winter kill in the wheat or do you get a good snow cover. What rain fall do you expect in the summer. Sorry about all the question :salute
Irrigated corn does merely ok here. Normally in summer ( it blows almost all year tho) we have hot winds that just burn the leaves on crops growing after july. Our altitude 3600+ feet. Our rainfall normally is approx 17 inches which is semi-arid. This year where I live we have only had 3" of rain and hardly any snowcover. We always lose a little wheat to winterkill, as our temps will dip to -20 F on occasion. The corn grown here is mainly people planting it and collecting a government check when the corn burns up on dryland. Soybeans are sporadic although there is a little irrigated soy around.
Here is a link, if you are interested in agriculture in western kansas. It is to the crop experiment station that has been here in our county a long time.
http://www.wkarc.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=38 (http://www.wkarc.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=38)
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Thanks for the link Rondar. :salute It seems that you are a little short on precipitation this year. You say the wind blows, is there any wind farms around? Just the same as around here we have to get our crops in early or in the fall either that or irrigate. We have corn but only for silage and a neighbor tried soy beans (organic) but the weeds choked them out. Our spring White wheat is yellow with only a few spots of green left, the winter wheat is all yellow looking for the combine now. Getting ready for our second cut of dryland hay the irrigated boys have already taken 2nd looking at 3rd.
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In 5 years squeaker!!! Paging Mom and Pop Banshee7! :noid
There's nothing wrong with a "Hey Mister" :devil
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I have been looking for some more farmland in another area to help mitigate the crop failures. I Would like a dryland or irritation (yes I spelled it correct) farm 8+ quarters in the belt from Texas up to Alberta or Saskatchewan. Been looking for 16 months now, need to be in an area that I can grow land base. I would prefer to grow cereals (Durum, Red Spring, barley) oil seeds (Canola) and peas.
What is your area like, does anyone grow malt barley? Winter wheat?
Anyone that grows malt barley gets a big :aok from me.
With the hop shortages of late, the last thing I look forward to is expensive grain, also. It is bad enough that the local home brew store is drying up with some varieties.
Support your local farmers, guys. :salute
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I think anyone posting threads about cooking meat needs to post pictures. Should be a new forum rule. :)