Make your dream pub

[Meatshake]

Over my months of lurking and very rare posting I’ve noticed very good tastes in beer preferences among the DU crowd. I’m curious, what are some of the things you enjoy at your favorite bar/pub? This is intentionally very open-ended and made for discussion about what surroundings you like when you enjoy your favorite brew.

I’ll start – I enjoy small, local bars with a large selection of beers on tap from around the globe, with a killer jukebox of soft Indie music, and comfortable seating to have stimulating conversion with friends. Oh, and if it has a dartboards and shuffleboard, it can’t be all that bad. Double oh, if they’d have Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t leave.

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. I like your style...

I would add a good ratio of men and women, a really hilarious bartender, and a bunch of turtles in fistanks. Turtles bring happiness.

[DarkPhenyx]

4. lose the humor requirement...

...but keep 'em decent folk, and make 'em quick on the tap.

"U.G.L.Y." bartenders are best ya know.

[HEyHEY]

10. gimme a crusty ol coot any day

who hates everything and doesn't mind if you bug him for it

[DarkPhenyx]

14. But can mix...

...any damn thing ya want. Even if all he has to go by is it's name.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

2. i like

dimly lit, maybe with christmas light strings - wooden interior with writing and stickers on the walls, and they have to carry the Unibroue line of Canadian beers, of which La Fin du Monde is my personal favorite.

[DarkPhenyx]

3. Canadian beer sucks!

Replace it with German, Irish, and English brews, a good selsction of domestic micros, live music that isn't too loud.

Yeah...that'll do. :)

[HEyHEY]

8. Correction - mainstream Canadian beer sucks

[DarkPhenyx]

11. Well duh!

I'll say American beer sucks worse than Canadian beer.

Now if ya'll wanna throw in the micro brews and completely throw off the scale then fine. Have at it.

[HEyHEY]

15. Righty-o!

Not Micro brew.....but Okanagan SPring is good, as is Sleeman's and Vancouver Island Blonde
;-)

[DarkPhenyx]

17. So send me some damnit!

Oh, I forgot. Ya'll elected that commie, socilist, pinko, anti-American bastard. Send me more than some! :) Couple case at least.

[HEyHEY]

20. I believe you can get Sleeman's down there now

Depending on where you are no doubt

[DarkPhenyx]

23. North Carolina.

As I've said. It's a good thing my brother brews his own.

[Meatshake]

5. That's funny

I have La Fin Du Monde as one of the next beers I need to try.

[HEyHEY]

7. NO NONNON YOU DON'T NEED TO TRY THAT!!!!!

Well, I tried it when I was 19 and drinking shit...but I remember it reminded me of vegimite and water.

[HEyHEY]

9. I used to haunt a shithole called "Jakes Crossing"

It went through a four month reno period where in the bathroom was nothing on the wall but plywood. Over time it became littered with graffitti...not just stupid shit either....I was acutally the first to hit it...anyway..the day I walk in and saw the new tile up..I was sad..

[DarkPhenyx]

12. Jason's Under the Bridge...

...Toledo, OH.

[HEyHEY]

6. Okay.........

First off, there has to be Oak like all over. By the sea. All kinds of GOOD beer and whiskey on hand. ANd a sign that reads "If you wanna order a Budwiser go somewhere else."

It has to be a bit dirty though...and juke with good 50s,60s 70s and anything decent from then on...plus good celctic tunes and some mediterranian (sp?) music....oh yeah..oh yeah

[DarkPhenyx]

13. "If you wanna order a Budwiser go somewhere else."

Damn fucking skippy.

"You want beer? Stay here. Ya want Bud? Water fountain is down the hall."

IN ya! Ya canna fergit tha whiskey.

[DarkPhenyx]

21. Definately oak.

With about an inch of poly/wax on the bar itself, and a hun'erd years old. Water rings in the surface you couldn't buff out with a power tool...

Yeah. Tha' be it.

and smoke. I'm sorry, but fer a proper pub ya gotta have smoke. Not so it chokes ya, but an aroma of good pipe will do. Ya.

[northofdenali]

16. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon!

With nods and cheers to Spider Robinson. :P

[DarkPhenyx]

18. Oh Shit!

If'in ya'll know how to get to that bar let me know. I know I'd be right at home there.

http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/index.html

[northofdenali]

22. If you look for it, you can't find it.

I think it has to find you! But I really, really, want to get found on Punday!

[DarkPhenyx]

24. I'll settle for getting found at all.

It sounds a lot like "Fiddler's Green" and as I know I'm well on my way to Hell, I'm hoping to find it a'for'in I get too far. Eh? ;-)

For those who do'na know 'o Callahan's here'in ya go. Tis a grand place.

http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Callahan.htm

http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,2150/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812572270/104-9763218-6023930?v=glance

[northofdenali]

25. SMASH goes my glass into the fireplace........

while Fast Eddie whips out a tune at Doc's latest groaner!

[DarkPhenyx]

27. an a tear trickles down...

...every cheek in tha' place.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. I like the music to be low enough so I can talk with people...

or interesting enough for me to want to listen. A large selection of brews on tap would be great, but I'd settle for 3 or 4 and a respectable sampling of bottles.

The pub that specializes in Lambics will have my heart... :loveya:

What is Lambic, you ask?http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pvosta/pcrbier1.htm

[DarkPhenyx]

26. Yer a grand Lass.

Have I ever told you that?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. Well thank you!

And cheers! :toast:

[T_i_B]

29. One thing I do not want

is "minimalist" furnishing in a pub that more often than not just looks like something from IKEA.

I prefer decent local pubs with great regular drinkers, lots of well kept real ale, lots of funny continental lagers, a good jukebox, TV sport and a great landlord.

I guess I'm just a bit demanding really.

[jmowreader]

30. The Klo is a fun bar

It's in Berlin. "Klo" is German slang for "toilet."

They have a one-mark-per-group cover charge--the owner bought a coin-operated doorlock off a pay toilet and put it on the front door. (The restroom didn't have a door at all.) Or you can beat on the door real hard and yell "let me in, dammit" and they will, but where's the fun in that? Each table has two toilets (not plumbed in, naturlich) sitting in front of it. There's a huge fishing net hanging from the ceiling that's full of plastic toys they bought at garage sales. Lots of weird crap hanging on the walls. It's dark and cramped and there's so much smoke floating in the air you'd think the place is on fire. Loud music. Great beer, but it's in Germany and bad beer is illegal. Every spirit they can get their hands on.

If I was going to open a tavern, it would be a large place that would have a stage for live music, four small bars (front left, front right, back left, back right) instead of one big one--more personnel expense, but easier access for the patrons--a beer list that did not contain Budweiser, a really good sound system, and good food. But probably no toilets in front of the tables.

[sus]

31. pool tables and darts a MUST

and a big round bar and play only music that i like. charming, funny bartenders, too. and the guinness is a $1 a pint. and free honey roasted cashews. and free ice cream.