Weekend recap (ie beer)

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Journal by orange_6 on Monday September 13, 2004 @12:05PM

(/. really needs a beer topic)
Weekends start on Friday at 3pm. I do believe I started drinking at 5 and didn't really stop until Saturday at 9pm. All of it beer, half of it decent. This isn't counting the beers I had on sunday either. Basically my weekend is kinda blurry until mid-afternoon yesterday.

Friday, Lindsay and I ate dinner together and it all started with a Redhook Blonde. If you're not familiar with the Redhook brewery, they do consistantly good work, especially their ESB. I'm partial to their IPA and Sunrye, but everything is great...has to be my favorite brewery to date. Moved on to a Flying Dog Doggy Style Pale Ale. Again, another of my favorite brewerys, but some of their selections are a bit shady (namely their Scottish Porter...eew). Finished off the pre-bar festivities with a Killians, standard red that Lindsay loves (and recently re-discovered).

Off to see my friends from Oregon where we proceeded to a magazine launch at Fatty's (local bar with a decent selection and Blue Moon on special, can't go wrong with that). The magazine is a new local publication based around the Northern Illinois music scene...but not Chicago. Chicago has enough magazines to cover the whole state, everywhere else has shite. Lindsay designed the ads for the party and her publisher is producing the magazine, thus we had to attend. All my O-town friends came along and treated us all to multiple Blue Moons.

After a few rounds of pool, socialization and brews, Lindsay and I headed back home with her friend Chris for a few rounds of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (best game ever!) and more Killians. Not quite sure how I drank that much...but I did!

Saturday. Tailgating. Bud Light from the time I woke until I passed out at a whopping 10:30p. The football game was cool, NIU vs SIU, we barely won...1 point, could have gone to OT but SIU tried for a 2-point conversion and failed...whew. We sat on the student side amid chants of "Fuck you Southern, You sleep with your cousins" and the ever popular "buuuull shiiiit" at every call that didn't go our way. Interesting to say the least.

Yesterday, Lindsay and I went to Old Chicago in Rockford. For those not in the know, OC has a beer tour. Drink 110 beers (no time limit) and you get your name on the "Wall of Foam" plus other prizes along the way. I had 3 beers and Lin had 4 (Mikes hard lemondade, Redhook Sunrye, and a Goose Island Honker's Ale for me). I reached my 74th beer, for which I was awarded a kick ass glass much (32oz!) and Lindsay reached her 55th, for which she got a t-shirt. Go us!

We went over to Best Buy and were seriously considering buying a TiVo. Very frequently I want to watch Jeoparday and Lindsay wants to watch Dr. Phil (yeah, crackpot Phil)...thus we NEED a TiVo, at least that's what we're telling ourselves :)

Now I'm still kinda hazy, even after a good nights sleep, two cups of coffee and a doughnut (KK at that).

Beer. Yum.

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