Birthday ice-cream cake!
It’s the tail end of Sara’s birthday and she’s using her coupons all over town. I gotta applaud the effort and planning. This ice-cream cake is actually kind of the bomb and make a perfect palette cleanser for the pitchers of Miller Lite we’re drinking. I can’t remember the last time I hit up a beer and blog event. It’s been a while. The last few months have been a blur, to say the least. WIth the end of the year quickly approaching there’s been a couple big, big deadlines rushing at me. As of today, though, one is done and one is pushed off for the weekend and so I find myself at, -sigh-, Miller’s Alehouse. I don’t mean that to sound as mean as it might it’s just that it’s not my favorite bar we could go to. Something about the 73 (not an exaggeration) TV screen showing any sport you want from any angle you happen to be at in the bar, is annoying. Unless you like sports…which I don’t. Ever. Curling during the Olympics was fun and I love me some World Cup Football (soccer, for the americans in the bunch), but that’s pretty much it. There’s not another sport that I’d leave on in preference to just turning it off and staring silently at, I dunno, nothing, while drinking a beer and eating a meal at a bar. Not even beach volleyball (though that’s a close one). If you happen to like sports then Miller’s is pretty good. Reasonable drink specials (as long as you like crappy beer), food that’s ridiculously bad for you and schedules for whatever sports tickles your fancy, right on the table. I’m probably not really selling it but you know as well as I do some people are reading that last sentence with all kinds of interpreted exclamation marks and can’t wait to try it out.
Actual blog work at beer and blog
I haven’t made it to a beer and blog event for a while so I was very happy to be back at the original location at the Freakin’ Frog. We’ve had a pretty good turn out and as the photo shows, we’re actually doing some work on a blog. That almost never happens.
Another in a long series
We’re having Beer and Blog at McMullins Irish Pub tonight which means I had to get the Irish nachos. They truly are amazing but this is possibly the worst food picture I’ve ever taken. Just take my word for it, they’re delicious.
Beer and Blog, new venue!
Bar Louie has been less than helpful about us having our events at their bar. You’d think that having a dozen social media addicts meeting up at your bar every week (and talking about your bar every week) would rate us not getting static about separate bills and not having the gratuity automatically added but Bar Louie seems to think differently. To that end we’ve made a pilgrimage to Big Dog’s brewery. On the plus sign they have some really good beer and pretty good food (and cheese curds!). On the minus side it’s not really big enough to have our group here and happy hour only goes till 6. Oh, and they didn’t split the check and we got gratuity added…fail. Keep an eye out next week for the next venue in the series.
Beer and Blog the Super Edition
BlogWorldExpo is this weekend which has made for a big Beer and Blog crowd today. This is the beginning of a looooong weekend.
Beer and Blog special edition from Dick’s Last Resort
Our normal place, Bar Louie, is having some problems lately and Las Vegas Weekly was having a Party on the Patio event here at Dick’s Last Resort on a Thursday so it seemed like a good time to make a (temporary) venue change until we get the issues worked out. Dick’s is a good time as always. Abuse of customers by the wait staff and vice versa, that nut, Taco, running rampant throughout the joint, crazy hats and free drinks. If I wrote a recipe for disaster or a great time from scratch, I couldn’t have done it any better than that.
Petite beers…lots of them
It’s Beer and Blog Thursday at Bar Louie. This was the tip of the iceberg. By the time we left there was probably twice as many empties as there are showing here. It’s hard to beat $1 mini-beers. The best part was that the group actually drank the bar out of them. There were none left. It was an amazing feat. I didn’t really participate because I’m not a fan of Corona. $3 Stellas on the other hand…
