Beer and Bowling

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The Good Ol' Barter System

Just as I was cracking open my midnight snack, a Stone Cat Blonde Ale (a bit on the harsh side by satisfying nonetheless), I came across this article.

All I can say is wow. What people would do for some booze and meat. I wonder what kind of beer it was anyways.

Free the lobsters

Way to go little guy! All it took to save your from your hot, steamy death was 140 years of bottom-feeding life.

Beer with Balls

I just got this email from the Blind Tiger Pub in Manhattan:

"...here is a little good news... The Blind Tiger's Night of the Imperials will be held on Wednesday Jan. 21st at 4:00PM. I haven't nailed everything down, but I can say that we have at least 17 imperial beers and some amazing cheeses to match...details will be coming soon!"

How lovely! Wednesday is my day off.

Imperials here I come.

Liquid Jacket

Every night I brave the weather and walk my dog for a good 30 minutes. As the weather gets colder, it gets more and more difficult for me to bundle up and head outside. Tonight I figured I would utilize the Beer of the Month Club membership my sister got me for Christmas and give myself a liquid jacket.

Tonight’s instant jacket is a brew provided by the Pennsylvania Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, PA, Penn Gold. The Penn Brewing Co. does authentic German/Bavarian styles of beer according to the Reinheitsgebot beer purity laws. Lately I’ve been into sampling the pure and original beers responsible for the styles we have today and Penn Brewing is a great American company to delve into the old European standards. Penn Gold is a Munich style Helles, an extremely pale Pilsner that is the unofficial session beer in Bavaria today.

Cheers.

TIME OUT NEW YORK!

This evening I went to a restaurant in Union Square called Republic. It’s a cozy little noodle bar that divides their menu into broths, noodles and vegetarian and serves them in giant, white porcelain bowls.

Anyway, my reason for dining out was to meet up with the CityDusk people and discuss events and how everyone was doing. As I was slurping down some Vietnamese noodles and thinking how nowadays it is essential for people to know how to operate chopsticks unless they want to look like ignorant dinosaurs, I was told that my beer and bowling event will be featured in next weeks Time Out New York as one of the not to miss city pick events. I almost choked on my Sierra Nevada but it was worth the near death experience.

Check out the link and be convinced to COME TO THIS EVENT!

Social Experiment #1

Today at work I took part in a (sort of) social experiment. This morning while attempting to make my curly mess of hair look like one of the suave Mexicans I work with, I discovered that when I brush my hair straight back I look like a serial killer. Instead of styling my coiffe to the normal style, I kept the I’m-going-to-kill-you look in order to see if diner’s tipping habits are influenced by fear.

Monday night I made $125, $40 was in credit card tips.
Tonight I made $124, $40 was in credit card tips.

I guess people are used to scary goons serving them hot bowls of Spaghetti Bolognese.