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Beer Smuggling: 21st Amendment Beer.

21st Amendment Brewery

With beer being the last regional commodity Julie and I have a habit of smuggling beer.  During our trip we stopped at two breweries:  21st Amendment Brewery & the San Francisco Brewery Company.  The San Francisco Brewery Company only had gallon growlers so we figured that won’t be easy to transport via air but we did get two six packs from 21st Amendment Brewery:

Brew Free or Die IPA
There’s not much to say, I’m an IPA man and the Brew Free or Die  is pretty badass.

Hell or High Watermelon
I am not one to put fruit in my beer (Blue Moon & Corona) but by no means am I against beer that is brewed with fruit (Magic Hat #9).  The Hell or High Watermelon is pretty smooth and worth a try.

I’d highly recommend the San Francisco Brewery Company as it was a total old man bar.  The bartender (mike?) was completely drunk but he spotted me my first round.  If I had room in our suitcase and I didn’t think it would explode I would have bought a growler full of Albatross Lager.  It was great.

May Fest Chicago

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After a hard fought battle of Kickball we headed to May Fest Chicago in Lincoln Square for a afternoon of German drinking.  In the photograph above you can see that Dom and I need body guards while attending such events.

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My thoughts on May Fest Chicago:

  1. Five dollar ‘german’ felt hats are worth every penny. 
  2. ‘Stroller People’ should not attend ‘German drinking festivals’.
  3. Douchebags can be parents too.
  4. May Fest Chicago a is clinic in bad parenting.
  5. Keeping your child on a leash is not a ‘solution’.

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In the photograph above Dom has just done the math and has calculated that a German felt hat w/feather only costs €3.40.

He is now acutely aware of the crisis that is the US Dollar.

 

The Great Deceit.

The Great Deceit.

Last night before meeting up with Dom and Kelly we went to Merkle’s to catch the Mets game. I had a couple Rolling Rock’s before I noticed the pledge on the back has been amended:

 

 

TO HONOR THE TRADITION OF THIS GREAT BRAND, WE QUOTE FROM THE ORIGINAL PLEDGE OF QUALITY:

“FROM THE GLASS LINED TANKS OF OLD LATROBE.

WE TENDER THIS PREMIUM BEER FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT, AS A TRIBUTE TO YOUR GOOD TASTE.

IT COMES FROM THE MOUNTAIN SPRINGS TO YOU”

“33”

Where to begin. As you can imagine I’m pretty pissed. Jim Wallis warned me about this over several Yuengling’s one night but I didn’t really listen. I mainly drink Rolling Rock during football season so it’s been a while. I like how they ‘quote’ from the original pledge because they can’t ‘honor’ the plege. Instead the honor the idea of the pledge but no they pledge. Which is not honoring at all. It should just say “We liked what it said on the bottle before but none of that is true now, so shit was made in New Jersey.”

Looks like I’ll be drinking Iron City this football season since beer is the last commodity to cross the Appalachian Mountains with any consistency.