Epic Portions

Category: Beer/Drinks

  • Oberon Season Begins March 30th

    My birthday is a mere 14 days away, but more importantly everyone’s favorite seasonal wheat beer will be available in 29 days.  That’s right, Oberon season begins on March 30th.

    The best place to celebrate this holiday is to get down to Sidetrack Bar & Grill on the 29th at the stroke of midnight(technically the 30th) for $2.95 25oz mugs until 1:00 AM and random giveaways.  It’s a great time every year.  If you’re in the area stop by and at least have a pint to help yourself forget some of the tragedies that happened this Winter.  By tragedies, I mean snow.  Not trying to get deep here.  If you miss out on the opening night, no worries.  Oberon pints will be $2.00 the entire day.

    EP will be in attendance so if you’re planning on joining in let us know.  I would promise a free round for any reader who shows up, but I simply can’t.  My apologies for being poor.  Don’t judge me.

  • A Pint of Prevention

    Like most Americans, I’m fascinated with the drinking culture of Great Britain. Not only do the British drink a whole lot, but more importantly, our friends in the UK seem to really enjoy drinking as much as anybody possibly can. In fact, the British Home Office paid for research into a safer pint glass that will make drinking even more enjoyable.

    Imagine this, you are someplace in London drinking one of the 126 Million pints of beer severed in throughout the UK every week. Somehow you break your glass. This could have led to tragedy as official figures record 5,500 attacks a year with beer pint glasses (Nerdy Statistical note: this leads to a 0.00008394% chance that the guy next to you is going to attack you with his pint of Boddingtons). Does that seem like a lot to you? Now, however, the governments new hybrid safety glass (coming to a pub near you) can be broken, but held together like a car windscreen with a layer of plastic.  That’s right – safety glass for beer pints.

    Cheers to the Brits! Bottoms Up!

  • The Counter is Custom Burger Heaven

    After hearing about a new kind of up-scale burger-joint opening up in the neighborhood, we decided to start by doing our homework.  The online buzz was very good.  A premium, custom built-to-order burger restaurant, with real drinks and a hip, cool look.  The Counter guarantees their beef is 100% antibiotic and hormone free as well as being humanely raised and handled. They are a top pick by several reviewers and point out that their menu offers over 300,000 burger combinations.  The company was started in Santa Monica, CA in 2003 and they have quickly grown to several locations, coast to coast and worldwide. (more…)