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| - Me: "Do you have a beer list?"
Female Bartender: "Sure." Hands over the beer list.
Me: Reviews beer list. 20 brewed in-house beers? Hidden away on a college campus? Why have I never have heard of this? No wonder this place is so crowded!
Me: "Do you have a sampler?"
FB: "Yes, you can get all 20 beers for $20."
Me: "Yes please!" hands over credit card quickly.
FB: "So which one do you want?"
Me: "The sampler- all of them."
FB: "Which number beer do you want to start with?"
Me: "Uh, start with number one and just go down the list I guess."
She leaves and comes back with a tiny 1oz pour of beer #1 in a shot glass. Yes, the flight is each beer sample served one at a time. At Case Western Reserve University, the 37th best ranked college per US News & World report, this is how they decided to sell a flight of beer.
I wander back to my companion in a daze who is sitting at a booth across from the bar. How do I explain this to her? No paddle neatly labelled and filled with a proud selection of beers. Not even the lazy baking tin delivery method. You are just expected to ask a bartender 20 times for a sip of each different beer.
Somehow, I managed a second and third trip from our table back to the busy bar, and cajoled the male bartender into getting 3 samples at once (though they had to reuse my shot glass and the other two came in little plastic cups). This was not a quick process as you can imagine, and I increasing began to feel embarrassing participating in this tedious exercise. So, after tasting about 7 or 8 their beers, we left. In the end, it cost $20 and took 25 minutes to order and drink 7-8 ounces of very average craft beer.
Here is the part where I could make some pun about "learning my lesson" about beer tasting at the Scholar or how they need an education about bar service, but I'll spare you those puns. Don't let the joke be on you like it was me. Go anywhere else if you care about beer.
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