Boston - Flann O'Briens

Harpoon Leviathan Imperial IPA in front of the Bruins and Celtics game

So i walk from the Penguin Pizza joint to Flann O'Brien's, a real Boston Irish bar, dark wood, Irish flags, Guinness shamrocks, Boston sports on tv, Boston drunks plus 28 taps of good beer, a better selection then Penguin, 4 6tap towers 1 of them strictly Irish, 2 Guinness taps, Murphy Stout, Smithwicks, Harp and Magners Cider.

I order the Harpoon Leviathan Imperial IPA, bloated belly from Penguin but finally a big hoppy beer. As i am sitting there, i hear, "Hey i am drunk, do you want to talk hockey" I turn around to find 2 drunk Boston sports fanatics talking to me. So right away i open my mouth and let them know that i am an Islander fan, when in enemy territory you need to lay the line in the sand right away, but we had a good time talking hockey, NCAA, hockey fights and the such but i realized that this New Yorker might be over his head dealing with these two drunks so i kind of finished my beers, mentioned Mariano Rivera and took off.

Supposedly they have good food but i didn't find out.

Boston - Penguin Pizza

Rapscallion honey Beer

BBC Maibock

Penguin Pizza

So i was in Boston Sunday night and it was getting late and i needed something to eat and drink. I was near the Mission Hill area and i found Penguin Pizza, 27 taps, a 100 or so bottles of beer so how bad could the place be. Since i was alone i decided to sit at the bar, there was an empty seat between 2 dudes, one who was eating wings with a loud Pod in his ears and the other who was just staring into space, at the tv, no food or drink in front of him, strange but it is Boston.

The tap list was pretty pedestrian, no BMC except for Blue Moon, not a lot of MA beers, a couple of Harpoons, the standard Sam Adams, a Rapscallion and 2 BBC's.

The place is known for pizza but i couldn't eat one by myself so i ordered a meatball hero that came with a s@!t load of fries. I ordered  the Rapscallion Honey beer which was eh and a BBC Maibock which was pretty good, kind of true to style. Sitting next to the staring in space dude was his friend and we got into a decent conversation on different stuff. As he was enjoying an Abita Purple Haze and a Wicked Petes Strawberry Blonde , i decided, and was pretty proud of myself, not to give this guy my opinion of fruit beers, it is not good, but i realized that nobody really needs to or wants to hear my rants on what i like and don't like. Hey maybe i am growing up, Nah i don't think so.

Captain Lawrence Saturday

The next generation of Captain Lawrence fans.

Fresh Remote

i want to thank the Best Western hotel chain for keeping this fresh remote inside a remote condom. We all know what happens when a fresh remote is let out.... baby remotes.

Saturday

So i spent all day freezing in the Shelton Ice Rink, volunteering at a speedskating event, doing lap counting  for the first time. I only screwed up the first race because nobody told me how to do it, so that was alright, i did kind of space out a couple of times but i was able to catch my screw ups. On break i would go outside for fresh air and next door is  a double level golf driving range, i wish i had my clubs in my car.

During one of my breaks i took a walk over and found that they had some of those metal clubs and they also had some lefty ones so i figured that since my peeps are either upstate, working, or hanging out with their friends and i would be home alone so there was no rush, i decided that i would go drive a bucket of balls.

Regular bucket, large bucket, x large bucket? it was late, cold, metal clubs, old glasses, i decided a regular bucket was enough for the first time of the season. Now i can come up with excuses, standing in an ice rink for 10 1/2 hours, the metal clubs, the cold, my shoulder hurt, the first time swinging this season, but no, i won't make excuses, i just suck at this game and i know it. I didn't even have fun, just totally frustrated myself. I guess driving balls was not a good idea.

So one of my peeps was generous enough to wait for me and allow me to buy him BBQ so that he can eat and then go out with his friends.