Hops-heavy beers make good springtime sippers Hops-heavy beers are typically savored in fall, but there are plenty of reasons to make them springtime sippers.
By Michael Agnew, Special to the Star Tribune April 7, 2021 8:44am Text size Copy shortlink:
I crave hops in the spring, and I m not typically a hophead. I love pilsners, and revel in the toasty and caramel character of malt. But something about the change of seasons lengthening days, rising temperatures, more opportunities to be outside makes me desire the crisp, bitter bite and the citrus, resin and tropical fruit flavors that hops deliver.
This seasonal craving makes no sense. Hop season is early fall, when the towering bines are cut from their trellises and the tender, bright green cones are harvested. That s when fresh or wet hop beers made with unprocessed flowers are brewed and released to eager hop lovers. By spring, it s just a distant memo
IRISH GRAND NATIONAL - Three horses worth backing at Fairyhouse on Easter Monday
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The Irish Grand National (5.00) is the big race on the card on Easter Monday at Fairyhouse with Latest Exhibition likely to go off favourite for trainer Paul Nolan. He has plenty of class but will have to shoulder top weight to win.
I was always a fan of THE BIG DOG for this race but he was withdrawn early on Monday due to the drying ground. He is a bit of a mudlark and would have seen JJ Codd cutting to his lowest weight in almost 20 years to take the ride. With him out, I m backing two in this year s renewal, the first being
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Horse by horse guide to the BoyleSports Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse
By Donn McClean
17:10 · SUN April 04, 2021
Donn McClean leaves no stone unturned as he runs the rule over every single horse in the BoyleSports Irish Grand National, settling on Jack Kennedy s mount, Run Wild Fred.
BoyleSports Irish Grand National Chase (Grade A)
When: 5.00pm, Easter Monday
Odds:
Latest Exhibition (Trainer: Paul Nolan – Jockey: Bryan Cooper)
A top class novice who also had Sunday’s Grade 1 two-and-a-half-mile novices’ chase as an option, he was a Grade 1 winner last season as a novice hurdler, and he has finished second to Monkfish in Grade 1 chases twice this season. The defection of Tiger Roll and the resultant raising of the weights was not ideal, but he is a top class individual who could still run a big race under his big weight, and it is interesting that his trainer is fitting cheekpieces for the first time.
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