Met Andrew and Allison M at The Ginger Man, which I've always wanted to go to because it has a huge selection of beer, illustrated below.
Emily H joined us while I was already into a Shiner Celebration, which is Shiner's Winter Seasonal. My brother recommended it to me and I'm questioning his call on this. It is a dark, intensely fruity beer with strong peppermint aftertaste. I'll have it a at least one more time before leaving Texas, so let's see if I warm up to it. Emily suggested I try the Austin-based 512 Brewery and I happily ordered a 512 Pecan Porter for a 12:01am Special.
512 is the Austin area code, btw. The beer itself is a decent porter, though I feel the pecan isn't so much pecan as it is sweet praline, i.e., it tastes syrupy. Also, wasn't very rounded but was still drinkable. ARMAGEDDON rating
Great times with Andrew and Allison and Emily drinking and telling stories while rats crawled down the bar's wall, which elicited a scream from a random someone each time. It got old, REAL fast.
However, the great rat migration of 2010 did afford Andrew the opportunity to impart some knowledge. See, Andrew worked in lab and tonight he taught me how to break a rat's neck. You grab his 'natural leash' as he calls it (tail), pinch the rat's head down on the floor with your thumb and then pull the rat leash up and SNAP, he dead fool....Personally, this ain't gonna be the way I deal with rats. I'm more of a beat'm with a shoe guy :)
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