So who wants to go drinking tonight?

[Krilons Resa]

and the Irish released U2 on the world...for that they have alot to answer for.

Hehe

 

[NAD]

I really can't tell if Americans calling such establishments "pubs" instead of "bars" is just for shits and giggles or because "bar" seems to have gotten such a pervasively negative connotation.

my breakdown is sorta like this:

trendy people drinking trendy drinks listening to trendy music surrounded by trendy shiny metal objects = bar

38 beers on tap and 52 kinds of bottle shitz from all over the world with a bartender that tells you his favorite beer was made 20 years ago in Yugoslavia = pub

i go to both types, but mostly the pub types. hence, i usually say pub.

 

[lurch70]

around my way, even in the non trendy pubs with 50 beers on tap ... the cool non trendy kids still frink fucking BuD light ... what a fucking waste

 

[JayKeeley]

What is it with Bud? I mean, is it the mass marketing? 'Cos it sure as hell 'aint the taste.

I can't imagine what someone must think when they go from drinking Bud all their lives and one day switching to Samuel Smith's IPA: "Ah, so those are what tastebuds are for..."

 

[lurch70]

tell you one thing about BUD ... it is the only beer that after only one bottle ... i feel a tremendously happy buzz ...must be something in the thing

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I don't mind Budweiser every now & again. Can't always be drinking the snobby beers, both for reasons of the wallet and the waistline.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

I want to go to a pub with NAD someday. I've yet to find a place like that. Then again, I wanna try all these 'snobby beers' i hear about in the snobby beer purchases thread.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I plan on getting warped tonight, and wake up @ 6:00 AM for work. argh

 

[NAD]

Can't always be drinking the snobby beers, both for reasons of the wallet and the waistline.

i still don't understand the cost issue. yes, i drink some $14 6-packs, but a great number of high quality brews are only like $1 more than the typical Buttwiper. unless you are comparing an 18 pack of cans or something, but i don't see how people can drink that type of swill.

I want to go to a pub with NAD someday.

we'll get drunk! it'll be rockin, like this: !

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

C'mon NAD, there's a significant difference in cost. Maybe not in a single night, no, but add up 100+ days a year of drinking and see what happens.

6-pack of Budweiser bottles = $4.99 maybe?
6-pack of "decent" bottled beer (I'm not even talking the very expensive shitz) = $7.99, at least.

$3 x 100 nights of drinking? And that's buying 6-pack type of drinking, which is when I'd normally be far more inclined to buy better beer. If I'm out in a bar though? Fuck that, I'll drink Guinness (if it's that kind of night), or a dozen of something inexpensive. I'm not made of money.

 

[NAD]

Trader Joe's sells all kinds of microbrew stuff for $4.99 and $5.99 per 6er.

but i don't want to add up how much money i spend on beer every year, it would make me depressed.

that being said, i take my beer very seriously, and it's something i don't mind putting the cash toward.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Trader Joe's sells all kinds of microbrew stuff for $4.99 and $5.99 per 6er.

but i don't want to add up how much money i spend on beer every year, it would make me depressed.

that being said, i take my beer very seriously, and it's something i don't mind putting the cash toward.

No Trader Joe's on this coast, I'm afraid. Though yes, I can get decent beers like Saranac or whatever for a decent cost, but as soon as you get to even Sierra Nevada quality, it's $6.99 and up.

I love my beer too, but well, you know.

 

[NAD]

Sierra Nevada quality, what, you mean, perfectly okay for mainstream beer but nowhere near "good" or even "great"? seriously, Sierra Nevada makes some okay stuff (other than their Pale, which is definitely good). but it's overpriced from good microbrew shitz.

also:

http://traderjoes.com/locations/search/NEW+JERSEY.asp

 

[Krilons Resa]

Yeah, Sierra Nevada is okay I guess, but WAY overpriced for the quality.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Sierra Nevada quality, what, you mean, perfectly okay for mainstream beer but nowhere near "good" or even "great"? seriously, Sierra Nevada makes some okay stuff (other than their Pale, which is definitely good). but it's overpriced from good microbrew shitz.

also:

http://traderjoes.com/locations/search/NEW+JERSEY.asp

Wow, I had no idea. Wayne, NJ is only about 15 miles from me; still, that's a minimum 45-minute roundtrip drive to buy beer. Homie don't play that.

When I say Sierra, I'm pretty much ONLY talking about their Pale. Though it's worth mentioning that their Celebration Ale (winter beer) is the best smallcraft beer around, period.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

i still don't understand the cost issue. yes, i drink some $14 6-packs, but a great number of high quality brews are only like $1 more than the typical Buttwiper. unless you are comparing an 18 pack of cans or something, but i don't see how people can drink that type of swill. we'll get drunk! it'll be rockin, like this: !

You gotta wait a year till i'm 21. Stupid US. YAY FOR DRINKING AGE IN CANADA!!!

 

[Krilons Resa]

hopefully this time, i wont wake up at 10am when I was supposed to be at work for 7:30am

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

hopefully this time, i wont wake up at 10am when I was supposed to be at work for 7:30am

I think that you should show up at noon, serves them right for making you/asking you to work Xmas Eve.

 

[NAD]

hahaha i miss those days. okay not really, but they were pretty fun.

used to go into work at 10am every Thursday (supposed to be there at 8am), and i didn't regain the ability to see until around 12pm. and i'd fall down a lot. haha.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I think that you should show up at noon, serves them right for making you/asking you to work Xmas Eve.

DUDE!!! They want us to be fucking KNOCKING ON DOORS at 8AM to repo people's shit on XMAS Eve!!! I say fuck that. I'm going out for breakfast.