Vegetable Soup

1 quart vegetable stock
1 pound baby carrots
3 turnips, peeled and diced
6 salad potatoes, coarse chopped
2 sweet onions, coarse chopped

Combine ingredients in slow cooker, cook on high for two hours, then low for four hours.

The onions and turnips give it plenty of flavor without adding any other seasonings, but of course, you can always season it to your own taste.

Alaskan Winter Ale

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/429/1768

I want to try this one.

My previous experiences with spruce flavored beers were very disappointing.

Biloba Brewing Co.

According to a story in the business section of today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (no link provided because the Stalinists that run the paper discourage such things), Biloba Brewing Co. is going to open a craft brewery at 18720 Pleasant Street in the Brookfield Village area by early January.

Growlers!!!!!