Comments on: Bottoms Up America!

by: Melissa

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:14:49 +0000

Yeah, I know — I’m out of my league. I’ll be back when you do a dessert post.

by: miles

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:10:42 +0000

Dave,
Didn’t know that, I thought a liquor store was American for our ‘Off Licence’, that’s a new one on me!
A great comment mate, thanks for the links. We’ve got some great pubs over here but too many are closing at an alarming rate. It’s very sad.

Miles

by: miles

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:07:54 +0000

Melissa,
Stay off the beer!!

Miles

by: miles

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:06:16 +0000

G.Dave,
‘Eradicate Boddingtons from the memory’-fair point but I’d still hold on to the image of Melanie Sykes holding a pint of the stuff

Miles

by: Dave

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:31:02 +0000

“Ahhh beer. The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” Homer Simpson

by: Dave

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:27:56 +0000

Unfortunately, beer isn’t sold in liquor stores in NY. Groceries and little bodegas sell beer, at outrageous prices - GD’s Sierra Nevada pale ale will sell for upwards of $12 / six pack. NJ however is different, all alcohol is sold in liquor stores - one of whom which I have a very good relationship - I will be drinking Batemans within a week after I call - SWEET!

Rod,
“an American themed pub” ???? I can’t imagine - nor do I think I want to try. We have quite a few good beers here, they just rarely make it over the pond - and I must admit - almost all have come into existence in the last 15 - 20 years. Mercifully, NYC is filled with great bars and tons of Irish pubs - but you are still very limited in your beer selection. It takes a special search to find a real selection other than sitting in an ethnic restaurant’s bar and drinking the home brew.

A couple of favorites:

DBA - a shrine to beer and all alcohol - even have some hand drawn taps (extraordinarily rare in the states)

http://www.drinkgoodstuff.com/ny/default.asp

check out their other alcohol selections - truly staggering - and have staggered me on many occasions.

and a place called Otherroom http://www.theotheroom.com/

off the beaten path, beer and wine only, and very comfy - can’t sit on a hard barstool for 8 hours anymore.

Both of these places will get Bateman’s just because it is available and their reputations would suffer if they didn’t.

But, as big a proponent of some of the great NYC bars as I am - I have never been anywhere near as cool as a pub in Surrey in my brother - in - law’s home town of Guildford. Dirt floors, low ceilings, and known to have been a pub for 800 years - sorry we can’t compete - that’s just too cool.

Wow, I went all over the place with this one - sorry Miles.

by: Melissa

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:43:31 +0000

Miles,

Forgive me for the incessant commenting. I did a cut and paste of the comment I left on your 2008 Batemans post, but it doesn’t show up here (I tried twice and will give up). No time to rewrite it.

Melissa

by: Melissa

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:40:46 +0000

>>I’m not doing well with this commenting thing this morning. Here’s the one I left on the other post.

by: Melissa

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:39:03 +0000

>>Oops, I just left my comment on your Batemans post from last year. I followed the link and stayed there! I’ll copy it here. And Rod, many beer drinkers over here agree with you regarding the “lite” version of American beers.

by: Rod

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:32:42 +0000

Beer in America :
I thought it was all Miller Lite, Coors and Budweiser

I spent a night in an American theme pub once, drank gallons of the stuff and went home sober as a judge !

Nostrovia
Rod