PCC Meeting/ Bleeding Deacon

I have to apologize for the lateness of this post. It has been a busy week in my Drinking Adventure. I promise to make the wait worth while.

Last Thursday, we had another Pubcrawl meeting. We decided to celebrate the 15th year of the Pubcrawl with a Mexican Quinceanera theme. A Quinceanera, for those of you who do not know, is the 15th birthday celebration for young ladies in Latin cultures signifying the transition from child hood to becoming a woman. Hence, during our 15th year of the Pubcrawl, we will be celebrating the Pubcrawl becoming a Woman! The PCC (Pub Crawl Committee) and I will be dressing in Quinces Dresses and Mariachi Band outfits and dancing and singing our way throughout the Central West End of STL. Also, as if this idea could not get any better, we will be celebrating this "Fiesta" on the day after Cinco de Mayo... or as we are referring to it as... El Sixo de Mayo. Therefore, if you are free and would like to crawl with us, please show up anytime along the crawl and get ready to party! Bar list and times are below, we hope to see you there!

6:00 Tortillaria
6:40 Zona de Loading
7:20 Flora Loco
8:00 Rosa’s
8:40 34 Casa
9:20 Cantina Louie
10:00 El Duff’s
10:40 El Dressel’s
11:20 !Viva!

We always have our Pubcrawl meetings at "Wildflower Restaurant" in the CWE. Wildflower is a fine dining establishment with really good food and an excellet selection of craft beers on tap. Incidentally, from 4-6 they have $3.00 taps which is a pretty great price for the great beers they have on tap! I started today's drinking festivities ordering a "Gread Divide" IPA. This was a really well balanced IPA with wonderful color, great body and a frothy head that burst over the top of the glass! This was really a terrific beer and considering I knew relatively nothing about this brewery before trying their IPA, I was inspired to know more about them and their beers. So I looked up their website to find they have been around since 1994 and have earned some critical acclaim. Their website says that "Great Divide beers have earned 17 Great American Beer Festival medals and 5 World Beer Cup awards. Great Divide was also ranked 8th in Ratebeer.com’s 2010 “The Best Brewers in the World” and was ranked 7th in Beer Advocate’s 2010 “All-Time Top Breweries on Planet Earth.”" These were interesting stats considering this brewery was not even on my radar before this experience. Anyway, the IPA was so good, that I needed to have one more before venturing out for dinner.

For dinner tonight, we decided to head out with our friends Ben and Lauren to a self described "dive bar" called "The Bleeding Deacon". They have an excellent selection of beer including the highly sought after Stone Beer that I have been craving. I decided on the Ruination IPA and was very pleased with it. It was bitter and hoppy and had a wonderful smoothness that made this heavy IPA very drinkable.

#9

On the way home, we hit up Blueberry Hill for one more beer hoping they would also be carrying the Stone beers we had earlier. Unfortunately they did not and I had to settle for a Magic Hat #9. The #9 is apricot infused Pale Ale that is significantly sweeter than the Dogfish Head that I reviewed Here. After a filling BLT dinner at the Bleeding Deacon, the sweetness was, however, a welcome taste.


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