complete drunken geeks
A few days ago, Andrew got the most brilliant idea. We go to the german bar often enough. Hell, last night they called last call and when I looked at my watch, the bartender said, “NOT YOU!! THEM!”
Anyway, Andrew got a wonderful idea. Why don’t we try to sample a .3 liter glass of each of the beers that the german bar has on tap? After doing the math, it came to about 5 liters.
That’s a lot of beer
As it turns out, our math was wrong. The actual number of taps makes it out to be more like 6 liters.
That’s a lot of beer.
Extensive research has shown that we both can hold our own after 3 liters and one shot, so if we take long enough and eat and make sure we ingest enough water, we should be able to endure without incurring a police presence.
So today we thought we’d try it. I think Andrew’s exact words were, “It’s not like there’s going to be a GOOD day to do it.” We sent a text msg to the bartender which outlined our intent, to which he replied, “Game on!”, and we set about to get our supplies together, mostly items to document this occasion. I brought 2 cameras, my computer and power supply, and Andrew brought his computer. I managed to forget the cable that attaches my camera to the computer, so I can’t show you any of the photos we’ve taken up to now, but I’ll post them later. We are taking photos every time we get a new beer (bier) and they’re turning out to be pretty hilarious, and after 8 samplings, I must say that this was a great idea.
The only problem (so far) has been that an ex-real German and his family sat at the table behind us and when he saw us geeking out on our computers (I was using Photoshop and Andrew was making a business card), he leaned over and asked us what we were doing. That turned into him leaning over and telling us all about why this german bar wasn’t TRULY authentic, and how they really do it in Germany…ad nauseum.
No thanks. Go away.
Luckily he was gone within an hour and we’ve been left to our beers and computers since then for the most part. At one point, Andrew said, “I wish we could order beers electronically!” Which reminded me…one time I actually ordered a beer by texting the bartender. He came over with my beer and laughed, “I LOVE the fact that you ordered with a text, that’s AWESOME!”
At any rate, we’re at 9 beers with 6 to go to meet our 5liter goal, with 3 extra credit beers remaining. I think we might make it.
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