Fredericksburg

The only stipulation I have put on me is it must be all Texas malt.

us being close to Fredericksburg kind of near peach country sometimes I'll smoke the grain with peach wood I've done it with oak I think the one I released last year was smoked with pecan which is state tree of Texas this year the batches I made got smoked with the only cherry tree native to Texas the escarpment cherry and this one that I am drinking was made from a hundred percent Vienna malt Yeah.

So it's always a gamble.

You don't know what you're going to get.

Well, it's about three weeks old, so you're not too far off on that one.

A battle for the hill country with the Marble Falls Mustangs and the Batlin' Billies of Fredericksburg.

Our guy Nolan's school, the Hayes Hawks and the Harker Heights Knights.

And the Friday Night Lights Bowl, as I like to call it.

This would be the Karl Marx track.

There is this radical group of Germans, uh, very close to me actually here in Austin and places like Fredericksburg and comfort Texas.

Um, and there are people who kind of come after the, the failed 1848, uh, they're the, they're the 48ers and they bring this kind of radical, oftentimes utopian version of socialism, um, to texas um so there is this kind of uh you know czech and german community in texas that was very very socialist um you know it's interesting the way it develops because on one level um you know people kind of look at that and say well that's the genealogy and that's the history but i would kind of see it as something that's happening in addition to a radicalization of the um like American or the Southerners who are moving to Texas, who are also coming towards the Socialist Party.

A lot of the focus of Socialist Party history in the U.S. tends to really look at the European influence, which is undoubtedly very important.

On Christmas Day, this detail had a running fight with four men.

John Collins, the man who stole a yoke of oxen at Fredericksburg and drove them up to within two miles of our camp, was captured, as was also John Gray, wanted for murder in one of the eastern counties.

Jim Pope Mason, charged with the murder of Rance Moore, was in this skirmish, but escaped.

One cold morning, about the middle of January, Corporal Gillette, with Private John and Will Bannister, Tom Gillespie, Dave Lejeune, and Ben Carter were ordered on a five-day scout.