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Bars!
I usually only go to Brew Pubs any more, because I typically go to eat because I like the food choices(nothing better than a good bar burger), and then may stay to have a couple beers, and if I like the beer I will take home a growler of it to drink at home. But we don't usually go out to a bar to just drink, typically too crowded and usually too young a crowd for me. We will either have people to our house, or go to someone else's house.
I've always found the Water Street Brewery in your neck of the woods to be good. I was just to the one in Delafield last weekend, and you could sit at the bar and hear yourself talk.
I've always found the Water Street Brewery in your neck of the woods to be good. I was just to the one in Delafield last weekend, and you could sit at the bar and hear yourself talk.

Too bad I don't frequent dive bars anymore. Sigh...

Mindy! That is how I used to behave in bars too!
It has been years since I've gone into one, and I'm not sure how I'd behave now, but I don't think I'll try just to see.
Once upon I loved a good dive bar, though.
It has been years since I've gone into one, and I'm not sure how I'd behave now, but I don't think I'll try just to see.
Once upon I loved a good dive bar, though.

At the start of each tour day, the behavior of the various individuals was fairly sedate. By the end of the day, the two groups were acting quite differently, to say the least.
Since the firm was a behaviorally focused business consulting firm, the behavioral aspect of all of this was quite evident to many in the group.
By the way, this was the same group that, at a wild party held at a famous football star's home, managed to park a perfectly good Corvette in the deep end of the pool.
Personally, I have never spent much time in bars. I actually went to bars more as a teenager (drinking age was 18 in that way-back-there period) than I have as an adult. This is fitting, in that a lot of the behavior observed there could be characterized as immature in nature.

I used to love crappy ass dive bars, but I don't have stamina anymore, I'm afraid to admit...



Nah, I mostly dated men when I was bartending. There was this one chick who was a bartender at another bar, but she kept stringing me along and nothing ever happened with that. (My lesbian "game" really sucks.)


I like the two polar opposites -- good divey dives and brewpubs. My favorite local beer used to only be available at its own brewpub downtown, and I could never go because just one made me unfit to drive. Now they've allowed two places in my neighborhood to put it on tap. I'm still a cheap date - one is enough - but it makes me very happy to go to two different locally owned bars with good food AND my favorite beer.
The dives around here have lost a lot of ambience since smoking was banned. I'm not a smoker, and as a musician I have to privately celebrate that I'm not being killed a little bit by my audience at every show. Still, some places are better viewed through a haze. My favorite dive (best jukebox in the city, occasional live music, cheap beer, strange home-made liquor that they only pour as free shots for regulars and bands) just doesn't feel the same without the smoke.
Sarah 3.14 is becoming more rounded as she goes.
I meant that in only the best possible way. But if it helps you out some, I'll drink some of it up tonight so that there is less for you then. Probably a couple nights worth for you by the sounds of it. Oh the sacrifices I make ;-).

Dar's a bar!
Whar?
Over dar!
repeat

Jackie -- Remember the Davey Crockett song? The line is "killed him a bar when he was only three" but I always thought it was "killed in a bar when he was only three" . I couldn't figure out what he was doing in a bar at that age, or how he had gotten around to defending the Alamo.
Well I was presuming it had a little higher alcohol content, and to be honest with ya, I can't drink near as much as I used to, nor do I want to. Quality over quantity in my book also, that is why I go to the brew pubs and get the beer I like. Just got a growler over the lunch hour, and that is what I planned on having tonight.




I have a prof. who loves to advise us to drink soda water with lime if we ever go to a social function with colleagues. The subtext is clear: don't drink when mingling with people you work with.

Not content with being the "lame liquor law leader" in the country, Utah has thought of a couple more.
First, the legislature refuses to authorize any new liquor licenses. Since all the bar permits have been awarded, this means no new establishments can open until someone else closes down.
Next, the same legislature re-instituted the "Zion Curtain" for booze-serving restaurants opened after January of 2010. They must prepare drinks entirely out of sight of any patrons in the dining room.
One year later, the legislature banned happy hour pricing for alcohol. You can still discount the appetizers, but you'd better not offer a deal on the booze.
Finally, they have now banned the mini-keg throughout the state. As of October 1, 2011, it will be against the law to sell or purchase a mini-keg anywhere in the state. Regular sized kegs were banned way back in 1990.
Stupid, stupid prohibitionist motherfuckers.

Shortly after moved to St. George, Mrs. Larry made the mistake of ordering a margarita at Chilis. It tasted like lime Kool-Aid.

But if the stars align just so and there's a jukebox packed to bursting with "Nuggets"-style garage rock or old-school Brit punk, I might be persuaded to re-enter the fray.



Larry, there is no drunk like a white male 20-something British drunk. Very shitfaced, and prone to violence. That was the worst part about London public transport with two teen girls on hand.

She is so right, Sally.

Nothing quite like the "Package Store" in Mississippi. Bullet-proof glass, surly clerk with no knowledge of wine aside from being able to tell if it was red or white. How do you select a nice Savignon Blanc through bullet-proof glass and a wide countertop?

Phil, those new laws are ridiculous. We actually have a similar liquor license law here, but there are enough places coming and going that buying one isn't usually an issue.
The no-drinks-prepared-in-front-of-people law is just stupid. It lets shady bars bilk their customers, and I don't see much other purpose.



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So...do you like bars? What are your favorite types of bars? What makes them your favorite types of bars?
I'm not a huge bar person, but every now and then I like the sociability and laid-back nature of a good, clean, quiet bar.