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Go ahead and point out the glaring omissions in your area.

The only one on the list I've been to isn't even in the state I live in -- it's in california. Although I notice in the write-up for Zeitgeist, they don't mention anything about the open pot-smoking and dealing, which is kinda the theme of the bar.


But if The Edgefield didn't get a mention, much less the highest rating on the list, then the list is bullshit.

No bars on the list where you can get a beer for $2.00 and a cracked skull for nothing.
Those are usually the best ones.

I could tell an all-time funny story about riding with a drunk driver leaving Zeitgeist, but I imagine that with using text and having an inability to wave my arms around and make screeching noises while relating it, something would get lost in the telling.

In PGH, they mention Dee's, not a bad choice - I was there last weekend. The glaring omission is Gooskie's, IMO...a destination for every weekend. Victory Hop Devil 16oz. draft - $3.

Miller's Bar in Dearborn, MI. Never been there.

Here's some of what they're touting,

At Miller's you're having a beer: Miller or Miller Lite.

And you're eating a burger, because that's the only thing on the menu, and because that's what people do here, they drink beer and eat burgers, served by waitresses nearing sixty.

A beer menu exclusive to Piss or Piss Minus, served by wrinkly old nob-gummers? Wow, great fucking call, esquire.

Never seen a drunk throw the discus. Might be dangerous.

Dinsdale wrote:

But if The Edgefield didn't get a mention, much less the highest rating on the list, then the list is bullshit.

Edgefield? Though not part of the bar, per se, the fucking hotel rooms without TVs should penalize them enough to not be near the highest rating.

I've got to say, though, that the Edgefield is pretty mediocre as far as bars go... and my brother used to be the manager there.

Now if you are talking about unique, quirky, upscale hippy type wine & beer experiences, the Edgefield experience is something to see. But if I want to go out to a bar, I'm choosing a ton of other McMenamins' alone over the Edgefield, let alone all the other bars I'd rather go to.

PSUFAN wrote:In PGH, they mention Dee's, not a bad choice - I was there last weekend. The glaring omission is Gooskie's, IMO...a destination for every weekend. Victory Hop Devil 16oz. draft - $3.

Nice!

They just renovated the restaurant portion of their brewery. I haven't been there yet but I hear the food is decent. The beers, as you know, are excellent.
*edit- as for the survey, Grey Lodge is a nice choice (excellent wings) but the other 2 are dives.

Nice list. One bar in Oregon, and it's in Eugene. Eight bars in Wisconsin, including two in Madison. I've been in four of the eight for sure, but am a little fuzzy on the possible fifth.

Esquire is ranking bars?

Yea, whatever. I see there is nothing in NY north of Manhattan. There's your glaring omission.

JayDuck wrote:Edgefield? Though not part of the bar, per se, the fucking hotel rooms without TVs should penalize them enough to not be near the highest rating.

Disagree.

The fact there's hotel rooms, a bunch of them, is epic for a place that's probably more of a "resort" than a "bar," but it's always been a bar to me.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no longer a "McMenamin's can do no wrong" guy, and the McChainbars are starting to kinda piss me off.

But the Edgefield, besides the high prices, represents all that is good about McMennies.

Golf course... actually two courses now.

Theater.

Winery.

Brewery.

Distillery.

A bar room that features Grateful Dead videos whenever the doors are open.

Amphitheater.



Dude -- what's not to like?

Dinsdale wrote: Dude -- what's not to like?

A bar room that features Grateful Dead videos

Personally I'd rather they play Ashlee & Jessica 24/7 than listen to one GD tune.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Miller's Bar in Dearborn, MI. Never been there.

Here's some of what they're touting,

At Miller's you're having a beer: Miller or Miller Lite.

And you're eating a burger, because that's the only thing on the menu, and because that's what people do here, they drink beer and eat burgers, served by waitresses nearing sixty.

A beer menu exclusive to Piss or Piss Minus, served by wrinkly old nob-gummers? Wow, great fucking call, esquire.

I grew up less than a mile from Miller's, this is bullshit. They have a full bar and plenty of bottled and draft beers. There may not be any hand crafted small batch local queer beers, but like all bars in the metro Detroit area they carry all the American and Canadian standards.

The waitresses are mostly 20+ year vets this is true, but you gotta like the old broad with 1.5 hands pounding out patties and frying up fries and o-rings.

Burgers are not the only thing on the menu, because there are no menus. Burgers are what Miller's does. They are an institution. Why fix what aint broken? You cannot get in the joint for lunch, and the dinner rush probably feeds anothe couple hundred people. Burgers, fries, o-rings, or chips, that's it. I'm a two cheeseburger, onion rings, and 4 or 5 beer guy. The tab, there isn't one because Miller's operates on the honor system. You go up to the bar and recite your order to the bartender who rings you up on an old fashioned mechanical cash register on your way out.

Rack Miller's.

They had one of those where I came up. It was called the American Legion.

WolverineSteve wrote:queer beers

Is that what they're calling beer for men that can hold their drink, these days? Obviously since moving to Floriduh you've lost the BIG TIME POWAH. Man the fuck up, piss minus quaffer.

Zeitgeist is about a block from this keyboard. It's a corner bar with an enclosed backyard on Valencia. It used to be THE wanna be biker bar. Now it's just some bar. The projects right next door with the steady nighttime popcorn action mask any activities which the police wouldn't even be interested in anyway.

Here's the locals having a brew...nothing to see here, folks.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

WolverineSteve wrote:queer beers

Is that what they're calling beer for men that can hold their drink, these days? Obviously since moving to Floriduh you've lost the BIG TIME POWAH. Man the fuck up, piss minus quaffer.

I knew I'd catch shit from you on that one. No need to rehash my beer drinking strategies with you here. Just know that Miller's is a blue collar joint, blueberry, wheat, lambics, ales, porters, stouts and the like need not apply.

Actually, if I'm ever in Dearborn for anything I'll check it out.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

WolverineSteve wrote:queer beers

Is that what they're calling beer for men that can hold their drink, these days? Obviously since moving to Floriduh you've lost the BIG TIME POWAH. Man the fuck up, piss minus quaffer.

no, queer beers, are what you call beers for pussies, who have to have flavored beers.

here is a pussy(several on this board), explaining what beer he will buy or order:

"i cant drink an ale or a hefe, or a stout, i want a raspberry beer, or a pumpkin tasting beer, or something fruity".

those are beers for pink, huka wearing, ankle biting pussies.

Good god, you're a fucking tool. The big beer outfits make money hand-over-fist because of dipshits just like you. They market their product to "the real man" or "the working man" and you clowns buy into it hook line and sinker. The beer tastes like shit, and even you know it. But fuckit, you don't care. You don't want your "man card" revoked, right? How insecure do you have to be to drink beer that YOU KNOW tastes like koala piss just to "feel like a man?"

Who said anything about fruity beers? I don't drink them and don't have any friends that do. I just think you're making excuses because you can't down a 6er of something hand-crafted without Atomic Punking all over the place.

i actually prefer a guiness, Fosters or a schlafly pale ale. But if nothing available, ill drink pretty much anything!

and there are fruity beers all over the menus and grocery counters, and they are super popular with the pussified crowd!


no need to cry, i realize you cant handle a nice stout, you would rather have a tangerine taste to your beer. whatever you like. Needing fruity flavors in your beer is pussy!

Reading...did you need some help with that, sport?

I wrote:Who said anything about fruity beers? I don't drink them

Adelpiero wrote:no need to cry, i realize you cant handle a nice stout, you would rather have a tangerine taste to your beer. whatever you like. Needing fruity flavors in your beer is pussy!

There ya go, little buddy. That easy enough for you? I could make a Power Point presentation?

If I ever meet the makers of "Mike's Hard Lemonade" I will fight them, if for no other reason than they've desecrated a fine name with a long history of true manliness.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

I wrote:Who said anything about fruity beers? I don't drink them

Adelpiero wrote:no need to cry, i realize you cant handle a nice stout, you would rather have a tangerine taste to your beer. whatever you like. Needing fruity flavors in your beer is pussy!

There ya go, little buddy. That easy enough for you? I could make a Power Point presentation?

see buddy, i doubt your claims. i think of you as the fruity beer swilling pussy. i bet when your at the clubs, you hit the hard stuff, like medori sours and dirty martinis!

Adelpiero wrote:i doubt your claims.

Your intuition sucks. It's no wonder you lose more money betting on sports than a Rumplewife visit to the grocery store.

There's something about the Missoura tards. They're infamous for demanding interstate exit brawls when people with keyboards have wrecked havoc on their feminine parts. It's fuckin' weird.

What about punching bags for the Missouri Crew? Nah, probably wouldn't work.

Paul would throw one punch, get winded, and plop his ass on the ground. Then he'd stare at the bag until it resembled a giant twinkie and gnaw it to shreds.

Whitey's meek frame would get double KO'd. He'd throw a right hook, sprain his wrist, and then get knocked to the floor from the bag's pendulum.

Kaley would wait for the bag to do something first so he could break out some epic IKYABWAI.

Adel would put up a good fight until he realized there was no action riding on the outcome.

Papa Willie wrote:

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

Adelpiero wrote:i doubt your claims.

Your intuition sucks. It's no wonder you lose more money betting on sports than a Rumplewife visit to the grocery store.

I think it was this guy that (in real time chat several years back) said he was going to kill me with his 12 gauge. You're gonna have to step it up to get that kind of reaction, Mgo. :D

spray, why lie. You used to PM me, making threats. When the 314 would team up on your ass(pull out the trolls, bloatspray, and the others), you would threaten, make dead mom jokes(you fell for that, unfortunately, my mom isnt dead).

After catching Lieclone in a huge lie, you tried to defend him(miss demeanor(felix) and luther were witness to that debacle), then got pissed and in my pm box was threats from Spray. It was actually funny. From sticking a shotgun in my ass and blowing me away to cutting my head off and shitting down my neck. I found it funny, i have never threatened violence on these boards, except to Felix, but that was it. You were a shit head on Magi perv and Miss Cumducts board. Even you would have to agree with that.

I was in that chat 1 time, I got banned for posting Blueboys info(which helped to get him warned by police for stalking and harassing some chick), asked one of the Admins in chat about it, and he took care of it. Only time in chat, But there was one from the 314 who was threatening people, he told me to meet him at a local grocery store to fight. I told him ok, actually went(was 2 minutes away from me) and no one showed. I was seeing if he would show, and as i thought, this could be a riot! I Knew he didn't plan on throwing, but was curious if he would show at all. I believe he used to post on here, ran the SG's baby troll or something like that. He got ran from .net. in it's early days.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
Adel would put up a good fight until he realized there was no action riding on the outcome.

I would take a dive, if made the Favorite.

The thought of two adults meeting up in some parking lot to "settle" some message board skirmish will NEVER not be funny.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:The thought of two adults meeting up in some parking lot to "settle" some message board skirmish will NEVER not be funny.

"No doubt about it."

Sincerely, Kev in Pheenix

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:The thought of two adults meeting up in some parking lot to "settle" some message board skirmish will NEVER not be funny.

i knew he wasn't going to show. He'll i never got a chance to say anything, got a PM, saying meet me at South County Dierbergs, i was like, ok. I was thinking, should i go to see if someone shows, nah, then said fuck it, could be amusing if someone shows up in a Wife beater, with a barbed wire tat, redneck girlfriend in tube top, looking for a fight. No one showed, i went in and got me a handy dandy 6pack, so the night wasn't a complete loss. The beer was not flavored.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:What about punching bags for the Missouri Crew? Nah, probably wouldn't work.

Paul would throw one punch, get winded, and plop his ass on the ground. Then he'd stare at the bag until it resembled a giant twinkie and gnaw it to shreds.

Whitey's meek frame would get double KO'd. He'd throw a right hook, sprain his wrist, and then get knocked to the floor from the bag's pendulum.

Kaley would wait for the bag to do something first so he could break out some epic IKYABWAI.

Adel would put up a good fight until he realized there was no action riding on the outcome.

Pretty weak stuff coming from the smackoff champ. C'mon Magoo, ain't you got anything better than that?

Hell, if my smack was so LETHAL that I ripped through your monitor and pimp slapped you with my cock, you'd still say that. Right? Smack lobbed your way isn't going to receive high praise from you, I presume.

Not to re-hijack this thread from you lifers but....

Listed in Sarasota FL is the Bahi Hut. This joint is a lobby bar in a Days Inn or some mid/lower tier chain motel. It is known for its Mai tai's which are truly lethal....

The rule is that noone can have more than 2 maitai's. I once had my two and attempted to order a third. The surley waitress (not unlike one at Miller's) informed me that I had had my limit. My lady friend had had only one so I asked her if i could have her second one...."No". Can I have three Long Island's?...sure, can I have 8 jager's?.., yep. How bout a bottle of Patron?...ok, but I gotta charge you by the shot. Alright I just have a maitai....sorry only two per person. No joke, these drinks taste like gasoline, they are horrible. But the marketing geniuse makes people think that these drinks are the shit.

Rack the Bahi-Hut.

Mikey wrote:If I ever meet the makers of "Mike's Hard Lemonade" I will fight them, if for no other reason than they've desecrated a fine name with a long history of true manliness.

I'd be more pissed at AP than the makers of Mike's Hard Lemonade if I were you.