7. The fours - great sports bar- right next to the garden. Long trail - decnt beer - vermont beer - Since the Celtics were playing the Kings that night, we decided to head to the bars around the Garden. The first bar we went to had a ton of memorabilia on the walls like some sports bars do. It was very impressive and the place was packed with people in Celtics shirts/jerseys.
8. Greatest bar - big sports bar - love it - pbr tall boys. Pbr tall boyyyyysssss! And now you can see my excitement growing. Who had bar 8? This bar was awesome. Huge and I think it has like four levels. Another PwCer joined us here, Nate, who is a Michigan State alum. Let me go on a sidebar about Boston bars in general. The first floor of them are very similar to Chicago. However, they for the most part are multi-level bars. I know not all but they have a lot more multi-level bars than Chicago. I found this interesting. This is the bar that had a huge first floor, the 2nd floor looked over the first. The third floor had Tennessee fans and i think there was another floor that we never made it to. It was a nice bar and they had PBR tall boys. Michelle and I had dinner there - BBQ chicken pizza. I will be honest. I was ready to give up on my mission of 13. This bar was big and once we were away from the Tennessee fans there was no reason to leave. However, the group decided it would be more fun to hop. So after a few beers and dinner here, we were on our way! FREEEDOOOOM! (i may have yelled that a few times....hahahaha).
9. Sullivans - I was on fire with poposhot. Never lost. Had smitheich draft there. Loved it Here is a bar none of the Boston boys had ever been it. It look sketchy from the outside. No windows, small sign, looked questionable. Well, we walked in and we see touch screen and pop-a-shot. I ordered a Smithwick's. You can see my typing in my notes is dying. I quickly figured out that a bank shot was far superior in this pop-a-shot and if you hit the Celtic logo, it was about a 90% chance of going in. Well, a local with a huge accent comes up and challenges me. Fine. I beat em. We are having fun. I can tell he is pretty competitive but still jovial. I beat him a couple more times. He then plays a friend of mine. Wants to play me again. I play him. beat him. He wont quit. I played him one more time. Set the high score on one machine and off by one point from setting it on both. I stopped with a few seconds to go to for style knowing I had him locked up. Thing is - he didn't want to stop. We told him we had to leave. I asked after we left if he would have ever quit, everyone said "no and welcome to your typical boston guy. Intense enough that it might become a fight and will not quit but usually nothing happens". Ok, lets move on. I have never been that good a pop-a-shot.
10. Djs- palm beer - here quick. Need three more bars. We spent too much time at Sullivan's. We wanted to be done at a minimum by half time of the Mich State game for our Mich State alum. So, we went into DJ's grabbed a random beer and moved on. The beer came in a fancy glass.
11. Grand canal - shot of chilled soco- shot and go. The british r coming. We
need to come together quickly! This bar was more like a club. Well, they had a live band. The shots although the Boston boys say were normal size, are big by any standard. They pour them in a glass for crying out loud. I am not complaining though! Again, we were looking for speed especially because the games were not a focus at this bar. If you can not tell by my notes, I am in my happy place. I have been there a while now...
12. Boston sport grill - bar 12 _ has seadog blueberry. Had the beer before.
Great beer. On tap here. Soooooooo good. Pretty good lots of tvs. So, if you remember, bar #1 started with a blueberry beer because I was looking for the Seadog Blueberry. Well, this bar had it. I was EXCITED. It was ON TAP! I almost missed it because there was so many taps. Colin found it. This bar had TVs everywhere. it was a good place to watch the game. However, last time Nate was there for a tourney game, Michigan State lost. He even warned us if Mich State started blowing the game, he was going to bolt to the next bar. I was okay with this.
13. Boston beer works! - 13 - slainte-bunker hill blueberry ale! Ended the
night at a microbrewey. The beer had blueberries in it. This was a micro brew. Nice sized bar. I went right for their blueberry beer and it was fantastic. It even had about 5-6 blueberries floating in it. We stayed here until a little after 11 pm and went back home. I paid my tribute to the original 13 colonies. It was great. Another great part - we walked right back to the hotel. No cab was needed.
On Saturday morning, I wishing that there were only like 8 or 9 colonies and not 13. Lets just say I was not on my A game.
To say I had a good time on Friday would be an understatement. The next blog is all about Cressey Performance (a gym) - you are forewarned.
2 comments:
Great posts. I loved your original typing in #11!
Love that your included the original comments.
You write about bar crawls on your blog and I write about bakery crawls on mine - so pleasantly predictable (crap - now I better go write mine).
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