This is so stupid

Vinnie said it, it's gotta be right. I'm too lazy to explain why I think it's stupid. This is a blog, we are supposed to be lazy and unprofessional. Not enough for you here? Go read about butt chugging.

Austin Beer Week: The Worst 5!

It's the third day of the third year of Austin Beer Week. Lots of good stuff going on, like yesterday's ABG Bike Pub Crawl. It was amazing and hopefully you did not miss it. But there is also some bad stuff. Let's keep it special folks. Try, a little bit.

5. Happy Hour - Uncle Billy's Brew & Que (Barton Springs), October 22

Whoah, $1 off beers. Get there before 7 though. After that you will have to shell out the big bucks. Uncle Billy's has great beers, but this is hardly worthy enough to make the calender. Don't worry if you miss it, they are doing it again the 25th. And every week till the end of time.

4. Never mind, this is a stupid list. Go to what you want. You already missed the bike pub crawl, so your week is ruined.

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Austin Beer Guide Presents the BeerTownAustin vs. Craft Austin Ultimate Fanboy Showdown Bike Pub Crawl the Third

Doing this again.

Euro Beer #31: Annecy House Guest

In the fall of 2007 (yeah, I know, almost 5 years ago, but I am not ending this series until ENDS) my wife and I traveled through Europe for 10 weeks. We ate a lot of food and drank of a lot of beer (and wine). Not enough food, not enough beer. In Annecy:

At this point, this blog should be called EURO BEER. Craft Austin is dead, let's face it. But you never know, maybe I'll ditch the rest of the Austin Beer Guide crew and come back here full time.

















 Drinking Kir at a friend's house. What's kir? Where's the beer? Not in this post.
  

Then she made us dinner. This was the salad.

Some couscous. 

Our morning view everyday while in Annecy. Not bad.

Sightseeing.

Art

Euro Beer #30: Train to Annecy

In the fall of 2007 (yeah, I know, almost 5 years ago, but I am not ending this series until ENDS) my wife and I traveled through Europe for 10 weeks. We ate a lot of food and drank of a lot of beer (and wine). Not enough food, not enough beer. Left Paris: 

 














No beer, sorry. So this is it. A little wine and a big ole sandwich from Masion Collet. You can't go wrong. We were headed to Annecy to spend a week with a friend. It was a nice train trip.

















Classy.

















Then a lot of staring out windows. We should have bought more wine. We did have a pear later though. That was good.

















Lot of this.

ABG: Summer Issue Cover and Party Tease

We are so teasing you right now. Proofs are approved. Summer is here. Issue release party is happening June 28th at Billy's on Burnet. More info later.

Euro Beer #29: Ave Maria

 In the fall of 2007 (yeah, I know, almost 5 years ago, but I am not ending this series until ENDS) my wife and I traveled through Europe for 10 weeks. We ate a lot of food and drank of a lot of beer (and wine). Not enough food, not enough beer. Being cheap in Paris:

We met our friend Greg at his favorite bar in Paris, Ave Maria. But, I got drunk. It was my midnight birthday. No beer this night. A bike rental stand was right outside the doors and of course I was luckily enough to find an unlocked bike. I took Sofia for a drunk bike ride through the small twisted streets of Paris at 2 am. This was one of my favorite memories from the trip. We got lost of course. Eventually we made it back to the hotel and fell asleep dead drunk and tired from biking.

Don't know what this was, but I drank it.

Ave Maria

1 Rue Jacquard

Paris

See the bike station in front of bar in this Google pic:

Some more awesome photos from the night:

Tried on Greg's hat.

We woke up and had this the next morning: