I had a bit of a bachelor weekend at home recently and took in a couple new microbreweries and a watering hole that have sprang up in the Nashville area over the last few years in between some other fun activities.
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| Saturday, November 23, 2013 - I stopped by the brand new Black Abbey Brewing Company over near 100 Oaks and had a pint of POTUS 7 which is named after our 7th "POTUS" and Tennessee native son, Andrew Jackson. It's a saison/farmhouse ale which wasn't bad given the fact that the Belgium-style of brewing is not my favorite. |
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| After the Black Abbey visit, my pal, Wayne and I , took in the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas show at TPAC downtown. We had an extra seat to pile our coats in since my wife double-booked herself and couldn't go with us as planned. Too bad. She missed a great show! Before the show we had dinner at Puckett's Grocery and I had a Green Man IPA (Asheville, NC) with my chicken-and-waffles dinner. |
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| Sunday, November 24 - Wayne and I hooked up again at the Opry Mills IMAX for a showing of Catching Fire, the second in The Hunger Games film series. It was better than the first one (glad they got a new director!) and followed the book exactly. Already looking forward to the next two films. |
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| After the movie, I headed downtown to check out Jackalope Brewing. These guys have been my favorite Nashville micro-brewers for the past few years, but this was actually my first visit to their facility which is very nice. I had a four-sampler of brews that I hadn't had from them before that included: the Wet Hopped American Summer pale ale, the Leghorn Rye IPA (my fav of the four), the Dire Wolf IPA and the Rainy Day Blues blueberry porter |
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| After my Jackalope visit, I headed to the northwest side of Nashville to check out a cool location I had just learned about. It's the now-defunct Tennessee State Prison whose facade might look a bit familiar to movie-lovers like me. It's the front of "Shawshank Prison" from one of my favorite films, The Shawshank Redemption! What an amazing structure! This was as close as I could get for photos, but the nice security guard told me that they were cleaning the asbestos out of it and fixing a leaking roof in hopes of running tours through it in the future. Can't wait for that! |
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| After my "prison visit" I stopped by one of the newest watering holes in Nashville with a supposedly-impressive beer list called Pour House. Well, it was an impressive list. I started with a bottle of Lucky Bucket IPA (Nebraska) and then had a draught pint of Turtle Anarchy's Another Way to Rye IPA from nearby Franklin, TN. Both were excellent. I will have to add Turtle Anarchy to my must-visit list for more local breweries plus Fat Bottom over in East Nashville and Mayday Brewing down in Murfreesboro. |
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| Before the game as I waited for Wayne to arrive, I stopped in Pub 5 across the street from the arena and took advantage of their awesome happy hour with a couple of regional favs, a Terrapin Moo Hoo Chocolate Stout and a Sweetwater IPA, for a mere $2.50 each. Before the game, we ate a little buffalo chicken mac-n-cheese for dinner at Pucks & Pints in the Patron Level of the arena and I had a bottle of Chaser Pale Ale from Blackstone Brewing from here in Nashville with my meal. |
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| I finished the evening over at Zanies Comedy Club with my friends, the Edmondsons (Danny and Brenda and their youngest son, Kyle), for a show by funnyman Mike Birbiglia who was using the club as a warm-up for an upcoming 80-city theater tour he is about to embark on. His set was dryly funny, as usual, and Kyle even got his autograph after the show on a Birbigs T-shirt he was wearing. |
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