2 for 1

Since I suddenly found myself with the day off yesterday Sarah took me out for two for one beers and dinner.  Those are actually two, two for one beers that were brought to me after much confusion.  When I found out that they had Guinness I asked the waiter if I could have a black and tan and if that was included in the two for one.  He had never heard of a black and tan and after I explained to him what it was he said, "oh let me go see if they can make it".  I don't think he quite got that it was just mixing two beers together and that as long as they had the two beers they could definitely do it.

Anyways in all the confusion the bartender ended up making two gigantic black and tans so I ended up getting four for one.  It's a good thing I was making Sarah pilot the benz.  Hahaha she got angry at somebody in traffic and then she was like, "See when I get all crazy in this I just look like a bitch in my mercedes.  If I saw myself in traffic I'd be like, "calm down, you're in a mercedes, you're fine"

It is kind of true.  The tinted windows help though.

dessert

omg it was so good!  When I ordered it the bartender made a face like she was jealous and wanted one herself.  Now I know why.

It was not unlike a guinness, but with way more flavor.  I guess a guinness tastes kind of smooth and creamy to me, so much so that ariel can down one in literally a gulp.  At least I think she still can do that, I haven't seen her do it in years, but oh is it a spectacle.  We used to talk about running some kind of bar scam with her and all the dumb frat guys on the upper east side.  Why did we never do that?

Besides this chocolate stout being amazingly delicious, while I was enjoying it "my guy" came on the radio.  I told the bartender that I was just talking about sister act so now I felt like I had to go home and watch it and she very earnestly said, "listen, there are worse things to have to go do".

I couldn't agree more.

beers around the world

As I mentioned before Scott and I have entered a "beers from around the world" competition at the local pub.  It's 80 beers and when you finish they put your picture up on a wall.  I'm very excited.

The first time we went I had a guinness and a black and tan.  This time I had a blue moon because we had been talking about it earlier, then decided to just start picking randomly from the numbers I had left between 1 and 80.  I first chose 60 which was the stone levitation.  It was good, I think maybe having it right after a blue moon made me think they tasted very similar and I wouldn't have if I had just had it fresh, but regardless I liked it.  I also liked the bottle, it commands respect.

The next beer I had was magic hat:

I'm sure you've seen or had magic hat before, I took a picture of it more so I would remember that I had it.  At this point I was pretty wasted.  I actually had never had magic hat before, it was ok.  It tasted kind of like fruity pebbles to me.  I might order it again.  I am not sure what made me pick it, I don't remember what number it was.  On the front of the cards is the logo of the bar which has Shakespeare's picture in the center.  I think I might have chosen whichever number would punch out his smug mug.  Take that Shakespeare, now where's your soliloquy?

Hmmm doesn't have the same affect as, "now where's barbara walters"

Anyways, I look forward to updating you all as I make progress on my way around the world with sweet lady beer.

Also, I'd like to go ahead and get this out of the way now so I never have to think of it again.  Every time I leave this bar we walk past the hair salon next door which features this as their logo:

And every time I see it I think that it's a woman wrapped up in seaweed.  She looks kind of like the girl in casino royale who they find wrapped up in the hammock.  I don't care for it and I just had to get that off my chest.