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BEER CITIES: DES MOINES

December 11, 2011

All we want to do is drink your beer

I had the “opportunity” to travel to Iowa last week, a state so boring I feel bad even making jokes.* In three nights we hit three restaurants and a bar that were nothing short of fantastic for food and beer alike.

*Ok, not that bad. It may be the only state more boring than the one in which I currently reside.

Zombie Burger

Ok, this is not really a beer bar, though none of us would go thirsty. It is a zombie movie themed burger restaurant, but it is awesome enough that Aleheads everywhere need to know about it. The place is full of zombie pop art, has about twenty or so cleverly-named burger options, (e.g. the Boomstick and the Juan of the Dead), and a milkshake called the Tallahassee (of course, with a Twinkie blended into it). The burger I ordered (named They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara) came between two grilled cheese sandwiches instead of buns. Yeah, I’m going to let that sink in for a sec. Oh, and there were also about ten taps including Bell’s Two-hearted, and 40 or so craft bottle options, which means it was solid on the beer front as well. Nice work, guys. Read the rest of this entry »

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FROST BREWED?

March 16, 2010

Just wanted to write a quick post about another frustrating aspect of the Axis of Evil (aka: AB/Miller/Coors). Last night, I caught a commercial where Coors described how their beers were as “cold as the Rockies” and that they had developed “cold-activated”  cans, bottles, and glasses that changed colors when your beer was cold enough to drink.

First of all, that cold-activated crap has been around since I was just a little McHops. We had awesome gloves in the 80′s called Freezy Freakies (mine had Spiderman on them) and when you stuck them in snow, the graphics would change (let’s also not forget the Hypercolor T-shirt craze of the early 90s). So Coors billing their “cold-activated” vessels as if this is some sort of pinnacle of human technological achievement is just fucking stupid. Read the rest of this entry »


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