So on that train of though I then paid a visit to the Village Beer Merchant. As (e:jason) & (e:josh) have said in earlier posts, I do give a 2 thumbs up on the place. As my personal taste goes I will probably not drink 90% of the items that they have in stock. I only say that because there is a soft spot in my heart for India Pale Ale and they do have a ton of it. It's just that most of the other selections just aren't my thing. I don't need to pay $12 for a 6 pack of something with a quirky name that is dark and pours like syrup, just to show my friends that, "I know beer." It was funny because when I was in the store there was a guy that was almost a douchebag with some kind of obnoxious girlfriend giving their $.02 cents on everything in stock. The funniest was that they were "going to buy every last bottle" of something called Arrogant Ale!!! I shit you not & laughing about it.
What is going to get me back there is the stocking of Czechvar, OK that's what they call it in this country, but if it was back in Eastern Europe it's really Budweiser Budvar
I will gladly pay $40 for a case of this stuff. I remember the last time I went over to Poland and had this stuff for the first time it basically took me to another place in a very good way. So thank you Village Beer Merchant for bringing me the O.G. Budweiser from the Old Country "Source." I just find it ironic that AB actually imports & distributes it for their distant relatives even though they are still in that decades long copyright dispute.
Other than that I am actually happy that I can pick up some Boar's Head lunch meat for my lunches. It was kind of funny when the guy behind the Deli asked me if I ever had the Boar's Head Liverwurst. I smiled and said, "Yes, It was my favorite when I would go down to Florida." So in an odd way I may go there for the deli meats first & then the beer!
you know, i just got gas at the mobil on forest/elmwood, and was actually amazed by their beer selection. a lot of the bigger 'micro' brews- ellicottville blueberry, magic hat, blue moon... I picked up "Rising Moon", a new seasonal blue moon.
I always thought gas stations only sold bud and similar crap.
Well done! There are many specialty beers there, and I do think that much of it is overpriced (the Bernardus 12 Jason loves is like 2-3 bucks more at the VBM than it is at Consumer's!) but overall, I suppose if the difference is a buck and I don't have to burn gasoline in a car to get it otherwise I'll still buy it from VBM. Still though, they carry a $16 4-pack of canned beer. Look, I know that drinking that fucking trash PBR is mandatory if you want your hipster membership card punched, but having supposedly elite beer in a can is a mind-boggling travesty - I'll never try it. There is too much good stuff in bottles or on tap to bother.
The fella in there usually (dark, short hair, beard, hipsteresque) knows his shit about beer, but at a point it can get a little snooty and ultimately either you like the beer or you don't - few people rhapsodize about the beer they drink. By my own estimation I've probably never tried about 3/4 of their stock, so for me thats an attractive thing to consider when I'm trolling for a sixer. I can walk there, which is nice. Wilson Farms actually carries a respectable stock, but until now I've always had to go to Weg, Consumers or Premier if I wanted to try something different.
I've never tried the authentic budweis! I must have glossed over that when I was there last. I just got my tax return - time to spend a little of it on flashy booze!
Holy crap, liverwurst! I haven't heard anyone talk about that in ages. It was mandatory to eat it when going over to my Gramma's house.