Why I love beer, reason #37

#37. Kegs make good "beds" for chicks to make out on.

Greatest Drink Ever Concocted

FUNKY COLD MEDINA!

welcome to nyc

Aiight some spots to hit up while in town....

First memorize this to the best of your abilitySubway maps

The Famous Ray's Pizza in Greenwhich Village @ 11th st. and 6th ave
This is the original, I haven't had a slice from there in a couple of years but it's a landmark.
You'll see a bunch of knock offs but the one on the corner of the address I gave you is real.
Here's the Wiki page showing the controversey

You must absoultely must take the 7 train from Times Square into Shea. But make sure you hop on the express one (the 7 will be in the shape of a diamond on the train logo). Espeacially for the subway series it will be jumpin. On the way back is even more fun, if you get a chance to do that do it. The train ride home was louder than the stadium after the Game 6 thriller I went to.

While your in Times Square just walk around the area, you can spend a week there and still miss something. Also the sex shops and peep booths on 8th ave are decent. Ask for Melanie (of Melania, not sure she's the brunette who masturbates until she sprays out her cum on the window, it's a good show) on the one off 8th ave. Tell her Starsky sentcha.

Hot Dogs, to me Nathans in Coney Island is the best. If you want to go there you can also check out the Mets Single A class team, the Brooklyn Cyclones It's a cool stadium because it's on the beach of Coney Island with the Parachute as the backdrop. Anyway the original Nathans is a few blocks East right on the boardwalk. Don't let the crackheads bother you, they are harmless.
Also if your there (Keyspan park) hit up Peggy O'Neills for a couple of rounds. You can take the N train all the way in to Coney Island from Queens.

Back to pizza for a second, go here L&B Spumoni Gardens if you want the best sicilian slice in the god's earth. Wash it down with a spumoni ice. You'll thank me later. It's a short walk from the 25th ave. train stop on the D train or a couple of blocks from the N train. Get off at Stillwell Ave.
(this is my neighborhood, I live 5 block from L&B)

Now moving on to a few bars, unfortunately I don't frquent Queens often so as far as bars go I only know of two of them and one is a strip club. But I know of a plethora of places elsewhere.

Down the Hatch is my favorite out of these 5 places and all are a good time.
Also on the same block as Down the Hatch there is a place on the corner called The Spotted Pig . Good times.
Try the Bourbon here drink good stuff . They have a massive list of beers to.
Any Irish bar at or around Madison Square Garden (34th st. and 7thave), serious.
These 5 Irish spots I like toIrish joints . I like Swift alot.
Upscale places, um not really my bag but Sushi Samba is nice and any W hotel bar lounge is full of socialites ready to fuck. Bring your wallet though.

If your in Brooklyn I sugges hitting up the Bay Ridge section. All the bars on 4th and 5th avenues are good. Most notably "The Salty Dog", "Wicked Monk", "The Beanpost" (wings),
just search Bay Ridge Bars in Brooklyn, there is a million of them.

For food, I mean there is a million places. For a gangsta steak hit up Sparks Steakhouse
La Sevilla on west 4th st. and Charles has the best sangria and seafood Paella.
Cabana restaurant at the South Street Seaport is a great cuban joint.
Any Pork Store you see, you can grab a great hero. In Brooklyn and Bronx espeacially.

For extracirricular activities go to Larry Flynts Hustler club. If you got money to burn the honey's are tight like a guitare string and dont miss out on this : "Legs -n- Eggs 2 AM - Closing Thursday through Saturday we're serving up the bacon and eggs with a side of Honeys! Hungry for that early AM breakast?"

If you need weed Washington Square Park is the best public place to go. It's right by NYU's campus. If you want a private thing I'll give you Chico's number but he may still be locked up. I haven't seen that fool in a minute, nor have i smoked his shit in awhile. I'm a reformed man.

If i left anything out ask.

These are our brothers

SweetWater

Whilst in North Carolina I wanted to try some local shit so I picked up some SweetWater 420 Pale Ale and let me tell you, I like. It was a bit sweet but not real sweet like a Strawberry Blonde or Sammy's Cherry Wheat. It was crisp which I really enjoy in an ale.

The color was light gold, like a 16 year old blonde's pubes.

Try it, here's the Wiki page.

Sweetwater

beths pic

Why We Need Beer

Courtesy of EBNTX.

Entourage Chick

booty call

Here's to the Beer Man

LOB Final 4 game 2

Now it's time to see who will matchup against Ohio State for the beer national championship.

UCLA vs University of Florida

First lets start with UCLA. LA isn't much for a beer town in my opinion. Of course that doesn't mean that the team doesn't have some ties. They have a canadian on their team. Canadians are typically great beer drinkers, and some of my favorite beers are canadian brews. Then there's Arron Afflalo who is from Compton, CA. If there's anything i've learned from NWA it's that guys from Compton know how to drink them some forties. Unfortunately, they also have a guy that's from Rancho Santa Margarita on the team. I'll be damned if some margarita drinking fools are going to win this thing. Finally, they have two guys on the team from Cameroon. Now I have no idea if they drink beer in Cameroon, and one of the guys is a prince of something. So he has the coming to america comedy factor, but all I can ever think of when somebody talks about Cameroon, is cookies.

Now we come to Florida. Gainesville is a college town and according to TP there are a couple of small microbreweries. So that's always gonna win some points. Al Horford is from the Dominican Republic...which is kind of like jamaica and red stripe so "Hooray Beer"©. They also have a guy named Green on the team, and I drink "green" beer on St. Patrick's day. Of course the big thing they have in their favor is that they have a "brewer" on their team. That is huuuuuuge. They also have Joakim Noah, but he obviously drinks wine coolers, and this isn't the women's final 4 of LOB.

All in all UCLA has tremendous upside potential in this matchup, but you just can't beat having a "brewer" on your team. Florida wins this game inspite of Noah and his man-dress.

Final 4 LOB style

So I figured since the Final 4 is upon us, maybe it's time to make some predictions on the games based on the teams beerography. I'll break down the matchups based on their "ties" to beer and from that a prediction will come. Today:

THE Ohio State University vs Georgetown University

Ohio State has a few things going for it in the beerness. First, they have a player from Dublin, Ohio. Why do I mention this? Because Dublin, Ireland is the home of Guinness, so obviously that gives Dublin,OH some serious beer credibility. Another thing in OSU's favor is that Temwr says there is a good beer brewed there. I don't know the name, but if he'll vouch for it then good enough for me. Also Greg Oden could buy beer in the 3rd grade. OSU also has a guy on the team named Lighty, which kind of reminds me of Coors Lighty. But it also reminds me of lighty-weights and that's never a good thing, unless it's a chick, and this isn't the women's final four. The other bad knock is that Oden and Conley are from Indianapolis, and as we all know, Indy doesn't have any good beer.

Georgetown doesn't have a whole lot going for it in the beer category. First, Washington D.C. just doesn't strike me as a "Beer Town". It's hard to imagine
Nancy Pelosi wandering into a bar and ordering some PBR. It seems more like a martini town, and this isn't the lordz of martinis. G'town does have a player on the team from Harvest, Alabama. This is a great beer town in my mind. Why, you may ask? Well, when I was looking it up, the abbreviation is Harvest, AL, which is eerily similar to Harvest ALe. Lots of breweries make a Harvest Ale but my favorite is the Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale. Another thing that Georgetown used to have in it's favor is that John Thompson always sounded drunk, but his son doesn't, and the younger Thompson is coaching now.

So when you add it all up, it's pretty obvious, THE Ohio State University will triumph in this matchup. Tomorrow, i'll break down the Florida/UCLA game because this is getting too long for one day.

Hooray Beer!!

This commercial always makes me laugh.

Brilliant!

Here's to St. Patrick's Day!

Zonker!!!

That's the actual name of the beer I chose this week. It's brewed by Snake River Brewing and is a pretty decent Stout beer. SRB is in Jackson, Wyoming...why does this matter? I guess it doesn't but just wanted to give a shout out to my boys who live in Jackson. Zonker has won multiple awards at different festivals, which I think is stupid but they list them on the box. Denver holds the "Great American Beer Festival" every year at the end of September, and supposedly this beer won some awards at that a few times. Overall, it wasn't my favorite stout i've ever had but it wasn't horrible. It runs at 5.8 so it's not the strongest stout in the world either, but it still gets you drunk.

Anyway, the one cool thing about their company is you can actually order beer from the website and have it shipped to you, regardless of where you live. They only offer a couple of beers to purchase, and they're a little expensive. Here is that link. If you want me to sample one of the other two that they sell online before you buy, I will. At $31 for a 12 pack, I'd want to know what I was getting first.

64 beers

We need to set up a round of 64 Beer Bracket. Somthing like this.

EAST bracket

#1 Henieken
#16 Schlitz

#2 Budweiser

#15 Coors

#3 Becks

#14 Yuengling

and so on and so on
i just threw these seeds up real quick as an example

maybe i'll work on something this week

til then here's to Todd Packer!

CHEERS!

New Mexico's Finest

Last weekend I went down to Taos, New Mexico for a ski weekend and decided to try some of the "local" brews. So if you're ever in New Mexico here's what to expect.

Sierra Blanca Brews

I had the nut brown ale from this brewery first. It was very good. Heavy and strong but not much of an aftertaste. My only complaint, if it's really a complaint, it tasted exactly like Newcastle brown ale. I'm a fan of Newcastle so it didn't bother me but it gets D- for originality. Good beer for drinking with dinner or something, but if you're just going to get trashed you get filled up too quickly.

I also sampled the Pale Ale from this brewery, which is described as "A perfect balance of England’s most prized Fuggles and East Kent Golding hops, produces a smooth, full-bodied, aromatic stylistic Pale Ale." I would describe it as pure crap. I'm not a pale ale fan typically anyway, but this one was horrible.

On a side note, we may have met the craziest sumbitch ever in the little bar we were at. This dude asked us 3 seperate times where we were from, in about a 10 minute span. Everytime I told him "Denver", he'd go on and on about all the crime here. He then asked us if he could "train our kids to be bad-asses". Granted we don't have any kids. He said he could teach them the "white-man way" and the "indian way" to be a bad-ass. So if you're kids need training, go to Taos, I guess.

And since there's been much confusion over what the fuck a Tripel is, here is the wiki link

I had 13 Corona's last night

Read this story and then dance

You know what beer goes good with. College Basketball.

This is the view from my recliner, watching the games last night.

Hasselhoff's beer

Giving this a whirl later on, maybe even at work. Bossman brought it in for me to try. Ususally German pilsners are delicious so I'm pumped.

It's a German beer. Soft Pilsner that is very popular in the industrial area of Germany. They had the most breweries until the slaes decline of the mid 90's they then merged with a few other German brewers to form Brinfhoff's Brewery. A giant in the German industry.






































I cannot confirm nor deny that this beer is the actual beer the "Hoff" prefers.

Samuel Jackson Beer - IT'LL GET YA DRUNK.

TESTING