Huge thanks to John, Josh, and Evan. The Belgian beer tasting was great! A rep from Legend Brewing Company in Richmond doled out at least 6 different samples from a Belgian brewery, Bavik. I stayed after for a pint of Bell’s, one of my favorites. (See the draft beer menu for what’s rotating now.)
The crowd was mostly mid-20-somethings in groups, and I didn’t see a single villain I know! I know this site gets something like 5,000 unique visitors a month, so if you were there and don’t comment, comment already! (Especially if the reason you went was because of what Lilith wrote.) Also, I’ve been to Beer Run four or five times now, and I always run into someone really cool I know or make friends with someone really cool while I’m there. It’s easy to do. And I swear it’s not just me.
(Oh yeah. I didn’t ask about beer pong or dirty Jenga. Someone else can.)
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Nooooo, I forgotttttt!!!
it’s not so much that i forgot, it’s just that i never remembered in the first place. i think i need a coach, or a trainer at least.
yes, for my drinking.
Yeah - Beer Run is my spot. Couldn’t make it to the tasting, though. Gad durned family stuff.
Look at that! You even used our corporate “5,000 unique visitors a month” lingo. I am so impressed.
And glad for the business Beer Run is getting. I was out at another brewery…
I was there 5-6:30…
Tardy bastids.
is that what we’re calling 2o4’s place now lilith? another brewery?
Trouble brews.
I was there! I had a great time. We stopped in to have a few cold ones before the basketball game last night. Saw a good crowd, some familiar faces, some not so much. Those guys are putting out a quality product over there at Beer Run.
I came SO close to going. If I didn’t live on the other side of town I’d have seen you there, Yup’, you too ‘yo. Not only did I want to hit the Belgians, I wanted to try the Blue Mountain Full Nelson, which I think they still have on tap. Trying to get it added at a local restaurant, and wanted to see if it lives up to the 90 it got at ratebeer.com:
http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer/blue-mountain-full-nelson-pale-ale/79602/
anybody try it? Mmmm… Bell’s,.. left with a six-pack of ‘em last time I was in there.
Speaking of 2o4, will there be poker this Sunday?
Got some belgian beer stocked in the fridge girls, I’ll even tell you I brewed it myself if you like it that way
I love Beer Run! May need third job just to feed my habit. Im making them a present (very slow).
They need to get some local art in there… *cough cough*
for the love of god two, please don’t call Hips a girl!
See Hips, HD doesn’t work either.
You will be called Hips.
B’yo, after I’m done with Two, you can hang your art in my coffeeshop if ya want.
Honey, you can call me whatever you want, just so long as you call me.
Coolio. Just the naked ladies though right? My agent had a no nipple policy that eventually ended our professional relationship.
What do you mean by done C? Then it would be my turn I assume?
And hey 2o4! Are you using my Belgian beer to pick up women? I have to at least be allowed to watch…
We’ll I don’t want it to go bad, ya know….
I have to say…. I am not getting the whole Beer Run thing when it comes to spending 1.5 hrs like BYo. Firstly the bar stools freak me the fuck out. They have a pseudo-back… not enough to support you when you lean back, so it’s all for show ( trust me… I know when something sticking up is all for show and is NOT going to the job)
Secondly their selection of NZ Sauv Blanc was pitiful. I had to buy a Nelson Marlborough for 19.50 and it turned out to be NOTHING special. But hell I still got laid so I guess it was money well spent. Any port in a snow storm.
Lastly the over engineered sandwiches….. it’s like a book that none will lend me… a joke that I am not in on…. a clandestine sandwich affair that I want to end, but I don’t want feelings hurt.
Beer Run… I sooooooooo want to love on you because I can sled downhill ALL the way to you and will be drunk all the way home so should not care… why do I not heart you? Is it those tables where there should be crash sofas? I want to dissolve on a couch and talk utter and complete bollocks with whomever else is there, and then DESTROY them at Jenga and take their underpants as a trophy. Simple tastes. Do I ask too much?
I thought it was decided at poker - he is to be “Doofus”
For the record I am trashed
i give up
Floozy, I witcha. Just woke from a 3 hour pass out. Turns out ABC store *are* open. Heh.
The thing that does (and always does) bug me about their barstools is that they are wider at the bottom than at the top, making them hard to scoot around.
What I like is that the folks there are working so damn hard to make a quality experience. They care. A lot. So I know they will slowly adjust things to suit various needs (like more vegetarian options), cause at this point they are so new.
Let us not forget the awful tractor seat barstools whence mas first opened.
Doofus it is! And based on how I’ve played lately, wholly appropriate but you can call me hips, caroline, sweety..
Floozy, couldn’t agree more on the sofas, just a little too sanitary in there..
Those tractor seat barstools at Mas were sooo comfortable, if they’d been less than 300 lbs. each they would have worked out fine, it was the ’nuff steel for a sky-scraper that doomed them…
BYo… I feel so bitchy dissing them but the place has no feel… OMG if they gave me a MEAGER budget I could turn that place into a crash pad that NO ONE would want to leave…. it’s got so much space and so little atmosphere. Should I pitch them?
BTW Byo…have you been tested for color blindness? Serious question
whoah, if we’re basing it on our recent poker playing, I’ll have to be “dipshit”.
nanigans, however, will be “genius” or some such. I’m still laughing how she took the pot from the tournament veteran and told him he was “too pokery for his own good”
doofus reminds me of this, in the best way possible. I mean, who likes a goodie two shoes? not me.
http://www.highlights.com/images/us/local/newsroom/imglib/GoofusGallant_Oct1980_hrlg.jpg
Gallant looks like he’s trying to get into their little knickers to me .
I love Beer Run and am quite surprised with their success! It’s a pretty strange part of town to have such a place. Stanley and I went the other week(sitting a few seats down from Yo?) and stayed later then planned just so we could get try the Full Nelson on tap. Well worth the wait.
Haven’t really had any of the food(aside from a bite of Stanley’s veggie sandwich, and some of the pepper jack cheese he bought from there), but am compelled by the breakfest tacos.
It’ll be a nice place to walk to from Belmont in the Spring…
Or they should just move to Belmont…
Beer Run: excellent bathroom. I even enjoy the maze.
belmont yo: I am two-thirds through the second CD, and WOW. There was one track on the first that mashed Massive Attack Teardrop and Red Hot Chili Peppers Under the Bridge. I actually felt compelled to drink a glass of wine because of it. Then, later on on that CD, maybe a Blur remix? I couldn’t ID the group, they could be obscure, but the title is probably “There’s No One There” or “It’s Not Fair.” Anyway, I’m really enjoying the evening with it, and thank you.
Schools out tomorrow again…. Oh Holy Mary Mother of God and All the Blessed Saints combined I am going to kill the lot of them and bury them in the fucking garden.
Why do you ask? Do you hate my art? My house color (which I will be painting each side a different color sometime in the next two years).
ten year old ones: http://www.gallerysoco.com/cross1.ivnu
Beer Run is like a month old! Its like bright shiny brand new white tennis shoes, not your comfy old sneaks… they love you and me, and they will age gracefully.
I agree though, I much prefer boho crash pad w/ character.
So guess what. At the Blue Mountain Brewery, you can have Full Nelson Nitro– the flavor really pops. Their new Belgian is ridiculously tasty, and I don’t know that I’ve had anything like it before. I’m glad there are so many Belgian enthusiastes. Somewhere in my “European mutt” blend, I hope someone made whoopy with a Belgian.
Did you know: their spoken French is considered, by some, to be the purest.
I really like your art. Right now I hate that the internet has no intonation, but at this point you can probably imagine me saying, “Wow.” in a very genuine way. I’d never seen it.
My pleasure lil, and if you don’t mind me asking, what is written on the other silver one I gave you?
Sadly no Belgian in my blood, but my people did spend lots of time there (1914-1918, 1940-1945) As beer lovers, I’d like to think they knew a good thing when they tasted it
Whats their new Belgian called?
Belgium is a strange place… small… very small. Most people visit, and leave with a puzzled look whispering ‘Fuck… that was …. small”. But they do shit SO well…. fries, chocolate, beer and small. They do small the best. I wave at Belgium as we go to other places ‘Hey Kids…Quick or you will miss Belguim. Crap…too late”
I think it’s smaller than Rhode Island… but I am langered so that could be utter bollocks.
That stuff is oldy moldy. If you are ever at kiki, look back towards the kitchen, behind the opening. There’s one of the “big ones”, I have yet to pick up from my “show” there.
I just started painting again. Not enough hours in the day.
Why do ask me about color blindness flooz? Im flippin out, and its not the hydro.
Byo… CHILL THE FUCK OUT DUDE….
OMG!!! Open index megascore on the disco treats. Thank you france!!!! Oh god. Creamy heaven! Hope I can get my shit down to cafe land tomorrow (its gonna clear up, right? right?)
Visited Blue Mountain and Beer Run last Saturday……….both lived up to the highest of expectations. Thanks y’all for the reviews. Missed the Belgain tasting, but looking forward to bellying up to the bar and not leaning back too far and flipping outta my low backed stool.
I will chill when you answer da question floozer. Ah fuggedaboutit. Fuck my eyes, my ears are having orgasms.
dijonbray, Beer Run IS in Belmont.
Flooze, you’re going to drive b’yo mad woman.
Poor things probably creepin’ around his house lookin’ over his shoulder.
Sending over some q-tips as we speak…don’t leave those half-babies in your ears or you will know ALL about it in the morning.
WTF are you banging on about?
B-Yo you gotta make it to the cafe, we’re planning a field trip!
B yo - I’m needin some cd’s
Lil’ - nice one with the bathroom review
Flooze - stop hatin’ on beer run; we love that place (for now)
Sil… eat my clatty knickers.
Tomorrow, I am going to look back at my eight million posts tonight and wince like a beat down dog. But fuck it, Im snowed in I tells ya! Going Crazy! Snow blind! We’ll eat the pets first…. shit! I have none! And there is no we… GAh!
I should be writing my porn fiction for the Hook’s writing contest. $5 is a small price to pay to make John Grisham to pop wood.
Lil, reached dolly parton yet? That is made by dj earworm and he is a god. Fire up google and get the goodness.
OMG… I’m doing the Hook comp this year… like every fucking other year when I open it up and all the stories are there and I go “Dang I was going to do that” and wipe my arse on the winner. Evil drink.
But are you gonna “floozy up your fiction”.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were some sort of electronic social network where we could organize a prank such as getting a bunch of people to send in explicit erotic fiction to a writing contest run by a local weekly. That would be awesome. Just an inexplicable amount of porny goodness. Out of nowhere! Yeah. Too bad there’s nothing like that.
John wouldn’t pick you as a winner but I guaran-got-damn he’ll read the whole thing. Hawt. He’ll be in his bunk…
MC: Re: 48… If you are an mc, I gots the way mad loop features and a microphone. Wanna rock the house, I’ll hook it up.
Silmo: You now how to get em, you don’t even have to stay for the audio onslaught. You men are all alike. You never wanna stay….
My writing is audience based… I can totally damp it down if I need to. I can also churn out some utter porn if you want to inundate the comp with steamy LUUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE stories. But what would be the objective? I find no joy in a Grisham stiffy.
C… r u out there?
Whatever. It doesn’t have o be porn. All the stories could be about beagles. I just would love to hear any awkward conversations that ensued.
“well, received 53 entries that contained graphic descriptions of ‘less than usual sexual scenarios’
So then. Thats $10, for your real entry, and beagle story.
Bad idea. Like the stickers, I was just throwin it out there. God forbid we actually have any fun.
Btw, looks like its just you and me, and I can barely type.
still here my dear
Good lord. Leave the computer for a couple of hours and all hell breaks loose.
Floozy: Don’t kill the kids. Who would do all the yardwork?
B’Yo: Write your porn for the ladies. Grisham won’t put out unless there’s a movie deal in it for him.
Silmo: You’re only teasing on Floozy ’cause you like her so much!
is tomorrow a snow day too?
Oh there’s a movie deal in it for him alright.
/”misty, get my agent on the line…”
ThatGrrl… too late. Fuck it… I can always get a few mexicans in to do yardwork. There is only SO much PlayDoh that a woman can take.
C…. do you know Lisa Murphy?
And I’m back. And then I’m going to bed.
b yo, the first one was dulcius ex operis. Translation?
Second was elixir.
Right now, music is everything.
Next, illtopia.
How did I miss Dolly Parton?! She de-boned herself like a fillet of fish. *Shudder.*
Doofus-38: Clever!
Silmo-49: Always.
B’Yo: Your premise is intriguing. I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Floozy: I do hear that children make good compost. Might be a win-win, in the gardening department.
Floozy, that name is like fingernails on a chalkboard
Scott/Scott/Scott/Scott
Doof.. oh pray tell? Do you still have my digits?
I do.
Beer Run’s in Belmont!? I thought that was Park Slope! God, this town is friggin’ yuuge!
Just called, flooze. But you didn’t answer, so now I have a name to go with ‘Floozy’, interesting…
Translation: “After Difficulty, Sweetness”.
Dolly’s on the last track…. stairway to heaven I think.
Hairway to Steven.
Illtopia wont help you sleep. How strong is your kitchen table?
I’m painting again too and the B-YO music is helping. Hope y’all had a fun snow day… Won’t be seeing me around too much for awhile cuz I gotta crack down and produce some sweet sweet lady art but I will be at OXO and poker, you can count on that. OH, and Saturday is schoolgirl night.
Hi Flooze!
Sil… did you eat my clatty knickers like I told you?
I ate crusty knickers, does “clatty” mean “crusty”?
Relevant to beer, I have made arrangements that will likely put the elusive Fat Tire beer in my hot little hands very soon. Envious, you all are, I know.
Envious, as I fall on the floor. Enjoy. Yo, out.
#62 yes.
I keep missing out on all the active hours… hmm.
On #23 (b’yo) - I agree. Josh and gang work real hard to make you feel at home.
I have mentioned the barstools to him and he agrees that they aren’t working out like he hoped. When drunk one night I nearly killed myself trying to scoot it back to make a run @ the bathroom…
I watched for months as they were under construction and the anticipation was well worth the wait, in my humble opinion. Unlike places like Mas, these guys make you feel at home even when you drop by to get the kids a soda and a beer for Papa.
To me, a friendly staff and a good beer selection and I’m happy. Beer Run has both of those in Spades. Plus I live like 5 ft from them, sooo… stumbling home and saying eff tha po-lice works for me.
Trashy… I was in for lunch today and tried to pull 2 bar stools apart and I swear they were mating. I gave up and sat elsewhere.I felt I had intruded on an Ikea sponsored smut-fest. Should I have snapped it with my phone… does anyone get off on furniture porn?
Sandwich was better, but I had excellent company and the sun was shining and the sky was azure blue so it would be hard to not love the experience. I think I may become a convert over time when those copulating stools have been replaced with something more substantial.
xx