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| - 1) my cousin's wife's birthday party on Saturday was going to have just Miller High Life, Miller Lite, and Mike's Hard.
2) I am kind of a beer snob.
3) I don't want to inconvenience and bankrupt my family by making them buy a ton of smaller-brand beer for their party. even in Ohio, that stuff costs ducats!
how to settle this dilemma? compromise: we'd go out to places with good beer choices on Friday, and I'd drink High Life on Saturday. as it turned out, I did, but after I had plenty of hard liquor, so it didn't really matter at that point anyway. sweet tea vodka for the win...
man, I shoulda been an ambassador or diplomat or something.
rolled in here Friday night with the cousins. we were told an hour wait, so we went to another place (await THAT review as well!) to grab some drinks in the meantime. about 15 minutes later, got a call that a table was ready.
the table was the caveat. this night, Cleveland was something like 90 degrees, and 80% humidity. the table was all the way in the corner outside, so there was no ventilation. thankfully our waitress just kept bringing pitchers of cold water and of course cold beer!
the beer menu listed 10 brews on tap. I asked if there was a sampler option and the waitress said "okay, 1 sampler". as it turns out, the sampler is all 10, plus whatever else they have on tap, so in total I got 12 glasses that were probably about 5 or 6 ounces. honestly, I enjoyed every single beer that was there. Eliot Ness and Nosferatu had to be my favorites though.
so far as food, I had a pulled pork sandwich with chips. interestingly it was a bit sweeter than most BBQ pulled pork I've had. also, they mixed the cole slaw right on top of it. I devoured the whole thing! I poisoned the chips by putting malt vinegar on them...my cousins refused to touch them, which meant I could eat in peace! *strokes goatee in evil genius fashion* overall people seemed satisfied - it's pub food, it's not gonna be fantastic but it's gonna be good.
total bill for 7 people to have dinner and several rounds of drinks each was $150. nice! service, food, and beer were all great, I just wish the weather was cooperating.
I would definitely go back.
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