Personally, mine is Beaver Stadium, in University Park, PA. It wasn’t voted the best tailgating school in the country for nothing! There’s nothing like going there on a fall afternoon and priming up for a big game.
…Anyway, me and some friends are trying to compile a list of great places to drink for our website…we’ve already got quite a few (admittedly, mostly from the east coast.) If anyone wants to answer the following questions about your favorite place to have a brew, I’ll put em up on our website’s list (at www.beerseye.com) of good places to drink. It can be anything…a bar, club, arena, someone’s basement, your living room, etc.
Name: (Name of the location)
Address: (If possible)
Location: (City, State, Country)
Prices: (Typically…How much for a beer? Mixed drink?)
Why it’s a great place to drink: (What’s so special about it?)
Good stories: (Any great stories to share that happened at this spot?)
Website: (Does it have a website?)
Submitted by: (Who are you?)
Name: (Name of the location) The corner seat of the sectional sofa in my living room. Address: (If possible) It’s possible, but, uh, no, thanks, if it’s all the same to you. Location: (City, State, Country) Same as the info to the left. Prices: (Typically…How much for a beer? Mixed drink?) Well, a six pack costs around $9 or so, and I don’t do mixed drinks. So one beer would be about a buck and a half. Why it’s a great place to drink: (What’s so special about it?) I own the place, and can whip anybody there! No, seriously, I don’t like noisy smoky bars much (with the exception of DopeFests). I like to just relax with one or two beers. Good stories: (Any great stories to share that happened at this spot?) Not really. It’s a nice couch in a nice living room, though. Website: (Does it have a website?) No, but I do, www.ravingsfromdave.com
**Submitted by: (Who are you?) **DAVEW0071
Your sofa is up! I checked out your site…that’s some funny stuff! Also noticed the Bills hat in your picture…I’m originally from Orchard Park (though, to be honest, not a Bills fan…spent my early years in Cleveland which makes me a die-hard Browns fan.)
Name: the cool room
Address: Far away (see below)
Location: Bendigo, VIC, Australia
Prices: Beer - happy hour $1.50 - normally about $2.50. mixed drinks around $4.50 for top shelf
Why it’s a great place to drink: well… it’s a white room with blue lighting and comfy couches (sofas) and soft music so you can actually hold a conversation
Good stories: Lots but that would be telling
Website: don’t think so. <B>Ukulele Ike</B>, safe for you to drink there then?!
Submitted by: A mere antipodean trying to do my bit for this corner of the world…
A) Name: The Horsebrass Pub
Address: uh, 45-ish and Belmont?
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Prices: Oh, 3.50 US for a imperial pint of something good or a g and t.
Why it’s a great place to drink: Nice, mellow spot, decent music unless a Beatles tribute band is in. Quality beer selection but not poshy.
Good stories: I think I had 5 birthdays in a row here in my mid-20s. The nice older waitress liked us and would give us the 2/3 pitchers from kegs that had blown for free. Good dartboards. Double or nothing losses set me back about 47 pints for now-brother-in-law (from dart games before I met his brother).
Website: Oooh! Apparently. http://www.horsebrass.com/
Submitted by: capybara
B) Name: Lucky 13
Address: Somewhere on Mission up from the Safeway. . .
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Prices: oh, 3:50 or so for a pint again.
Why it’s a great place to drink: Good selection of beers and THE BEST JUKEBOX IN THE WEST. All Cramps and Joy Division and such, all the time.
Website: Doesn’t seem to have one.
Submitted by: Capybara
Name: Elsie’s
Address: Um. . . unmarked building down the street west from the crappy Paseo Nuevo. De la Guerra, I think.
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Prices: 3.50. No mixed drinks
Why it’s a great place to drink: Need to share this one as Santa Barbara is suprisingly feeble on the pub scene, aside from the meat-market undergrad scene. Good beer, including some Belgian stuff. Really pleasant place totally unlike anything else in the SB scene, thank God. Quirky spot seems like it belongs in Portland or Saint Louis instead.
Good stories: Used to have a very warped ping-pong table out back, but it’s gone now. Aw.
Submitted by: Capybara
Name: The Viking
Address: Jeez. . . across the river in
Location: Spokane, WA, USA
Prices: Cheaper than usual, I think.
Why it’s a great place to drink: A divy sports bar with a really truly excellent wide selection of all sorts of beer. A place where you can’t really embarass yourself.
Submitted by: Capybara
And my favorite in Amsterdam
Name: Onder de Ooievaar
Address: Prinsengracht and Utrechtsestr.
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prices: um. . better than downtown
Why it’s a great place to drink: This is a regular guy’s kind of bruincafe-- nice selection, including Brouwerij t’IJ beers, which are nice. Not as, um, whatever as a lot of bars in Amsterdam. Neighborhood place.
Submitted by: Capybara
Prices:
$3.50 for a pint. No Budweiser or anything like that. They brew their own beer, and that’s all the beer they carry. As the bartender once said to my friend who tried to order a Labatt, “go fish man, this is a brewery.”
Why it’s a great place to drink:
Well, all their beers are awesome, and they change it up pretty frequently. They’ve got great live music maybe 10 nights a month, pretty good food (I love their sweet potato fries) served until midnight, and it’s just a very mellow place to be. It’s a relatively quiet haven in an otherwise rowdy college bar scene. I’m there once or twice a week with a few friends to just unwind.
Good stories:
Nope. No stories. We did go there for a Burlington dopefest last September.
Why it’s a great place to drink: It was my favorite bar when I lived in Atlanta (left in 1995). It’s dark and cozy and groovy and if you get hungry, you can scoot over to the dining area and order prime rib or something.
Probably, though, I’m just a big, nostalgic old coot, and since I don’t live in Atlanta anymore, my little mind has morphed a plain old bar into a Utopian Vision now. (I’m even more inclined to believe that this is true, because I took a trip to Atlanta a couple of years ago with trishdish, took her to the Highland Tap, and after ONE DRINK [during which I was mistily caressing the bar, thrilled to be reunited with my old haunt, if only temporarily…], SHE was like, “So… ready to go?” Hrrrrumph.)
Name: AC’s
Address: King Street
Location: Charleston, SC USA
Prices: Pints of beer range from $2.25 to 3.75 Mixed drinks run from $2.50 (house) to about $5 a shot for top-shelf. (We are the LAST mini-bottle state.) Bottle beers usually run from $1 (PBR in a can) to around $4 or $5.
Why it’s a great place to drink: It’s kind of like Cheers, except a little darker and a lot dirtier. But the staff is really cool and friendly, and they will call you by your name by the time you leave.
Good stories: I met a couple of really cool people in AC’s. The only one that comes to mind right now is Shepard Fairey, who created the Andre the Giant stickers/phenomenon. I do have it on good authority that Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, and Bill Murray like AC’s very much.
Washington, D.C. (near Dupont Circle, 22d and P, N.W., or thereabouts)
Anywhere from $3.00 on up (and I mean way up)
It has the largest selection of beers in the world. They used to have upwards of 1000. The menu has clearly shrunk in the last few years, but it’s still several hundred. But the coolest part is that no matter which of the hundreds of beers you ask about, your waitress will almost certainly be able to tell you all about it. Also, it’s pretty huge and not like a typical bar at all, so it’s a great place to hang out with friends if you have six or seven hours to kill.
There are many bars here in Dublin that I really like but the bar that I liked more than any other had to be:
Name: Heart of Darkness
Address: #26, Street 51
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Prices: Large bottle of beer US$2
Why it’s a great place to drink: Great music and a real edge to it. I mean a real edge.
Good stories: Well the Danish silk importer and the prostitute was quite funny but that’s all I’m saying
Website: Not that I know of but they sell really cool T-Shirts
Submitted by: yojimbo
Address: Cnr Botany and Epsom Roads, Rosebery NSW 2018
Location: Sydney, Australia.
Prices: Schooner (425ml) of beer A$2.80
Why it’s a great place to drink: It’s friendly, it’s handy for me, and it’s a typical, no-bullshit Aussie pub. It’s not an upmarket wankfest full of dickheads in suits, and it’s also not the sort of place that needs bouncers. It has a great bistro too. And most importantly, it has a barman called Dave - a truly great pub needs that.
Name: Tins Hall
Address: 5 minutes from Tennoji station
Location: Tennoji, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Prices: 500 yen and up ($US 3.80+), 300 yen happy hour
Why it’s a great place to drink: Aside from being just about the only laid back, gaijin friendly, non-meat-market bar in South Osaka not crawling with just-off-the-boaters, it has a great regular crowd, good food, freindly staff, ultra-freindly owner, and good food.
Good stories: The Hawaiian night hula dancer who’s coconut bra string popped is a memorable one.
Website: http://www.tins-hall.com/index1.htm
Name: Urstoff Schänke
Adress: Aegidiusstr. 56, Frechen (near Köln/Cologne)
Location: Germany, just outside of Köln
Prices: reasonable if I’m any judge…
Why it’s a great place to drink: they brew their own beer called “Urstoff”. I’m not much of a beer person usually (I prefer wine) but I LOVE Urstoff! It’s a very “smooth” beer - it tastes great!!!
They’ve got a lovely little “Biergarten” (outside sitting area) and you can can get great meals too. Try the steak with the pepper sauce!! yum
Website: Not yet - but as far as I can tell they are already working on it: www.urstoff.de
Köln is famous for its beer and has many great pubs but the Urstoff Schänke is a real gem!!!
I’ve just saw this. I was there and it is a v. nice bar. I was over training with IBM about 4 years years ago with about 200-300 others. Had a GREAT time. You live in a fantastic part of the world
