Wednesday Pub Night Portland #44 - 7:00 at Moose Crossing
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Hi there,
After four and a half years of pubnights, finally my birthday falls on a Wednesday. Not that this ever stopped me from choosing pubnight locations in the past. Over the past 10 months, I haven't been the person with the great responsibility of the weekly pubnight email, so most of you have been lucky enough not to have my ramblings showing up in your in-box on Tuesday afternoons (or Wednesday mornings (or Wednesday afternoons)). But this week, it's my turn to talk. Not that I really have much to say. 33 isn't really a landmark year and, aside from a random reference on Rolling Rock bottles, doesn't really have any significance (maybe the last palindromic age of the first third of my life expectancy?).
(pubnight nyc - Feel free to use this email for PubNight #216 or feel free to ignore it completely and go somewhere in Staten Island.)
Without reminiscing too much about the pubnight marriages (K&D, S&L, A&R, M&V, J&L?), pubnight babies (Matthew & Catherine - there must be some others...), pubnight flings (see above), pubnight breakups (too many and too dangerous to list), and pubnight holiday parties, I just wanted to say thanks. Thanks to all of you who joined me in a beer or a martini and thanks to Jay, Petro, Jay and Dan for keeping the tradition alive. Whoops, almost forgot to mention - no, Laura's not pregnant.
Over 500 different people have been to pubnights in New York and Portland. You'd think that there would be several hookups (or at least random snoggings) among our large family, but, aside from a few couples showing up, the only people that have really met a soul-mate (or at least a snog-mate) at pubnight have been: Kris, Petro, Jay, and Dan. Do you see a pattern there? Maybe you should volunteer to send out the next email. You never know...
What's the real story? As a wise man once answered, "Boy meets beer. Boy drinks beer. Boy gets another beer." And thus pubnight.
So what does one choose for a pubnight birthday when one has the unprecedented responsibility of choosing the site(s) for two cities, when twenty, forty, or sixty people are hanging on one's every word wondering where to go?
Reaching back to another age-old tradition, this week we venture to a pub crawl. Not, however, the dollar Coors Lite alternating with Woo-woo shots pub crawl, but a real pubnighter's pub crawl. (Did I really just say "Coors Lite" in a pubnight email?) What the hell am I talking about? (...and who the hell am I, some may wonder)
What we are not doing:
pubcrawl 101
Portland: Brian Boru, Better End, Fore Play, Shady Lady, Iguana
NYC: 3rd Avenue 14th St to 34 St
What we are not doing #2:
pubcrawl for non-pubs (in honor of Mom's birthday (9/19))
Portland: Fore Street, Mazza, Wine Bar, Una
NYC: Fez, Temple Bar, Pravda, Balthazar
Where are we going? To the best beer bars and the raisons d'etre of pubnight. For the Portland crowd, that of course means Brewpubs and local Maine beers. For the New York crowd, since you folks don't have any brewpubs worth mentioning, it means good beer bars.
If you're up for a night of adventure, eat something greasy to coat your stomach and join us on our quest:
in Portland, starting at 7:30pm:
Sea Dog Brewing
Sebago Brewing
Old Chicago (for a Casco Bay or Gearys)
Gritty McDuffs
Three Dollar Deweys (for a Shipyard or an Allagash)
Stone Coast Brewing
(start practicing for the Maine Brewers Festival on 11/4 - http://www.mainebrew.com)
and in NYC, if you choose to accept your mission, starting at 7:30pm (feel free to edit if any of these places went out of business or if you're too lazy to walk):
dba
Swift
Greenwich Pizza and Brewing
Fiddlesticks
Blind Tiger
Stoned Crow
And at the stroke of midnight - assuming we're all in a Stone Coast or a Stoned Crow, raise your glasses high and toast pubnight itself - and remember, if you're working too hard to go out on Wednesdays, quit your damn job.
Drink good stuff and travel safely.
33 years in the making, this is your pubnight host signing off...
Cheers,
- stuart.
http://www.pubnight.com/portland