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The 15th Bi-Annual Central West End Pubcrawl was held this past weekend. To celebrate this "Quinceanera" of sorts, we dressed up in our finest Mariachi outfits and Pubcrawled through The Central West End of Saint Louis! This is one of those times where my blog will fall into disarray. Because everything gets a little fuzzy after 5 beers and a couple shots of tequila. I will do my best to remember what beers I drank, however, my phone died and I have no recollection of EXACTLY how much I drank. This is probably a good thing since the point of this blog is not to experience excess, but to enjoy all different types and styles of beer. Anyway...
We started the day with a shot of tequila at home. Since this is a beer blog, I did not chronicle the tequila, but suffice it to say that it was DEEEEELICIOUS! (1800 Reposado)
We always start our crawl at Mi Ranchito; a Mexican Restaurant in University City. The 4 of us split 2 pitchers of Dos Equis Lager while we filled our bellies with delicious Mexican food. I had the Burrito California with chicken and ate nearly the whole thing, which is quite the accomplishment considering the size of this burrito!
After we stuffed ourselves silly, it was time to start the crawl. We began this crawl at Tortillaria at 5pm. I ordered a Corona and began trying to recruit friends that were leaving work to come on the crawl with us. People were looking at us like we were crazy people... like they had never seen grown ass adults dressed in Mariachi outfits and crazy dresses while blowing on Kazoos and shaking moraccas while drinking beer on a Friday night. I mean, c'mon!
We stuck around Tortillaria till about 6:30. By this time I had consumed one more Corona and another XX. So I was feeling pretty good and decided to "take a bar off". The next bar I drank at was Wildflower. I have been a big fan of the Great Divide IPA They have on tap there, so I bought one for myself, one for my wife, and one for my best friend AB who came all the way from Madison Wisconsin to crawl on this last Pubcrawl with me.
After Wildflower we hit the dive bar scene. "Rosie's" and "34 Club" are two of my favorite bars in Saint Louis. Dark and smoky but they know how to make a drink. The beer selection there was not too good and I was forced to drink cheap beer at both places; Bud Light and PBR respectively. Don't get me wrong, I love good beer, but to drink craft beers all night can sometimes be burdensome, and sometimes that fizzy yellow stuff is okay in a situation like a Pubcrawl!
Our next bar was "Bar Louie" one of my least favorite bars in Saint Louis. Typically filled with douchey 20 somethings wearing too much cologne and hair gel with their "Abercrombie and Fitch" visor and popped collared shirts. However, on Pubcrawl nights its great! The bar is filled with all my friends and this is about the time of the night when people start getting sloppy! People start making out with new acquaintances, romantic interests are started or maybe they make new friends with people just sitting at the bar (I won't name names... you all know who you are).
Next bar was Duff's. I personally always love Duffs. I love it for many reasons. The biggest of which, is that you can always hear the conversation you are having, it is not too loud. I also have always had a great time in that bar; on the Hip Hop themed "You Can't Touch This Crawl" we did hip hop dances outside, I rode my tiny bicycle around the tables outside on the "Mario Kart Krawl", I have seen a girl puke on the floor in this bar. All in all, Duff's rules!
We called it a night shortly thereafter and headed home... the following morning, The Drinking Adventure continued!
Waking up after a Pubcrawl; stomach cramping because of all the beer and the bad decision to hit the "Jack in the Box" drive thru at midnight. The only thing that can help is always more beer... and greasy food.
To remedy my situation, we rallied some troops to brunch at Local Harvest. A restaurant specializing in serving up locally raised and grown food to the people of Saint Louis. I was looking forward to a Bloody Mary for breakfast, but they had no liquor and instead got Ska Brewing Company's Modus Hoporandi my current front runner for favorite beer in Saint Louis. The combination of the chili in the slinger, the hot sauce the beer and the beautiful hot sun made my hangover disappear in a flash! I felt so good, infact that I promply replied to my friend Trenton's request to play Kickball with him with an enthusiastic yes! We played 2 games of kickball during which time I consumed 3 of Trenton's Budweisers. I must say, having not played Kickball since 6th grade, nothing goes quite as good with Kickball as cheap beer!
I had not had a chance yet to chill with AB one on one since he arrived last night, so I figured I would take this time to catch up with him a little bit before we head home to have dinner. We stopped by The HandleBar for a couple of choice brews. I also had an alterior motive, Keeley was saving me a "Robert the Bruce" that I will dedicate a blog post to soon.
Since I had Ska Beer this morning, I figured it would be appropriate to have it again this afternoon! This time I chose the Buster Nut Brown Ale. A brown ale with crisp hop accents. I really liked this beer. I was anticipating it tasting similar to Ale Asylum's Madtown Nut-brown and I think it fell just short of those expectations.
For dinner, we went to my favorite restaurant in Saint Louis, a tiny Jamaican place called "Da Palm Tree". I had the Chicken Curry and 3 Red Stripes. As Ice Cube would say "It was a good day".
It was great seeing AB and catching up on old times and I always have a good time on Pubcrawls and will miss everyone that I have been on the Pubcrawl Committee with over the past years. Its weekends like this one that make me happy to be alive! especially after how much I drank! I'm lucky to not be hospitalized with alcohol poisoning!!
As always, if you would like to follow me on this Drinking Adventure, please click on the link on the right where you can subscribe to my feeds. you can also follow me on twitter at @williepawn or friend me on Facebook. You can also email me here. I am also keeping a compiled list of beers tasted HERE that you can look at.
We started the day with a shot of tequila at home. Since this is a beer blog, I did not chronicle the tequila, but suffice it to say that it was DEEEEELICIOUS! (1800 Reposado)
We always start our crawl at Mi Ranchito; a Mexican Restaurant in University City. The 4 of us split 2 pitchers of Dos Equis Lager while we filled our bellies with delicious Mexican food. I had the Burrito California with chicken and ate nearly the whole thing, which is quite the accomplishment considering the size of this burrito!
After we stuffed ourselves silly, it was time to start the crawl. We began this crawl at Tortillaria at 5pm. I ordered a Corona and began trying to recruit friends that were leaving work to come on the crawl with us. People were looking at us like we were crazy people... like they had never seen grown ass adults dressed in Mariachi outfits and crazy dresses while blowing on Kazoos and shaking moraccas while drinking beer on a Friday night. I mean, c'mon!We stuck around Tortillaria till about 6:30. By this time I had consumed one more Corona and another XX. So I was feeling pretty good and decided to "take a bar off". The next bar I drank at was Wildflower. I have been a big fan of the Great Divide IPA They have on tap there, so I bought one for myself, one for my wife, and one for my best friend AB who came all the way from Madison Wisconsin to crawl on this last Pubcrawl with me. |
| AB and The Wife enjoy some Great Divide |
Our next bar was "Bar Louie" one of my least favorite bars in Saint Louis. Typically filled with douchey 20 somethings wearing too much cologne and hair gel with their "Abercrombie and Fitch" visor and popped collared shirts. However, on Pubcrawl nights its great! The bar is filled with all my friends and this is about the time of the night when people start getting sloppy! People start making out with new acquaintances, romantic interests are started or maybe they make new friends with people just sitting at the bar (I won't name names... you all know who you are).
Next bar was Duff's. I personally always love Duffs. I love it for many reasons. The biggest of which, is that you can always hear the conversation you are having, it is not too loud. I also have always had a great time in that bar; on the Hip Hop themed "You Can't Touch This Crawl" we did hip hop dances outside, I rode my tiny bicycle around the tables outside on the "Mario Kart Krawl", I have seen a girl puke on the floor in this bar. All in all, Duff's rules!
We called it a night shortly thereafter and headed home... the following morning, The Drinking Adventure continued!
Waking up after a Pubcrawl; stomach cramping because of all the beer and the bad decision to hit the "Jack in the Box" drive thru at midnight. The only thing that can help is always more beer... and greasy food.
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| Modus and a Slinger! |
I had not had a chance yet to chill with AB one on one since he arrived last night, so I figured I would take this time to catch up with him a little bit before we head home to have dinner. We stopped by The HandleBar for a couple of choice brews. I also had an alterior motive, Keeley was saving me a "Robert the Bruce" that I will dedicate a blog post to soon.
Since I had Ska Beer this morning, I figured it would be appropriate to have it again this afternoon! This time I chose the Buster Nut Brown Ale. A brown ale with crisp hop accents. I really liked this beer. I was anticipating it tasting similar to Ale Asylum's Madtown Nut-brown and I think it fell just short of those expectations. For dinner, we went to my favorite restaurant in Saint Louis, a tiny Jamaican place called "Da Palm Tree". I had the Chicken Curry and 3 Red Stripes. As Ice Cube would say "It was a good day".
It was great seeing AB and catching up on old times and I always have a good time on Pubcrawls and will miss everyone that I have been on the Pubcrawl Committee with over the past years. Its weekends like this one that make me happy to be alive! especially after how much I drank! I'm lucky to not be hospitalized with alcohol poisoning!!
As always, if you would like to follow me on this Drinking Adventure, please click on the link on the right where you can subscribe to my feeds. you can also follow me on twitter at @williepawn or friend me on Facebook. You can also email me here. I am also keeping a compiled list of beers tasted HERE that you can look at.
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