It was bound to happen. Skippy
and I have been bored for a while. I had an idea to go downtown,
Skippy had an idea to hit up all the Guinness on tap. Sounded
like a good idea to me.. Until we realized there were 10 bars
serving Guinness on tap. 5pm December 18th, it started at PK's.
It was all over by the end of the night.
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I got there at 5. Skippy
(G-money), Doobie (G-Wiz), and D-Ball (Supa-G) joined me
(Da-G-neeous) around 5:30. I marked down the price on the
first guinness pint. PK's is always a dry place. You really
have to have people to hang out with there. I don't know
what it is about the place. Just, well, dull. Maybe its
the whole situation that it is architecturally a bunch of
different places jammed together. Who knows... On to Hokie
house!
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64 oz |
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Our quick jaunt to Hokie House, made
us realize how much we hated smoke, crowds and a lack of seating.
Would have been a good deal. They have 26 oz mugs for $2 from
5-6pm. Anyhow, we got sick of it quick and moved on to The
Cellar.
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+0 = 64 oz
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The Cellar has often had
iffy Guinness. We hit it on a good day. The bartender told
us that a pitcher would give us 4 pints. Saved us some money
in the long haul. Usually a pitcher will only get you 3
and a half. We made sure to ask at each place we went to
to guarantee the 4 pints we were looking for. I decided
we should come up with a rating system to rate each place
we visited. It went like this.
Each item got a vote from 1 to 4. Taste
was voted on by two people for 8 possible points. Head was
another vote, a key indication of good Guinness. The last
vote was an overall vote. For example.. Hokie House that
night would have gotten a cruddy overall score because it
was so disappointing there that we left with no Guinness.
What did the Cellar get? 4-8-4 (H T O)
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+64 = 128 oz
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+144 = 272 oz
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It was G-money's grand
idea to get the 36oz at Sharkey's ($4) to cover the missed
Guinness from Hokie house. We set up at a few tables by
the all you can eat wing buffet and got some tasty wings
in our belly. I suppose you are wondering why we wanted
all that food when we were already had the plan to put 160oz's
in our stomachs that night.. We were just hungry
G-Wiz got a call and Julia and Rachel
ended up joining us for food some and added conversation.
It's not easy to keep coming up with clever things to say
when you are on a mission. Bellies loaded with wings and
Guinness we moved to Emilio's.
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+64 = 336 oz |
Emilio's
has killer burgers, diggin hummus, and some yummy ol gyros.
What no one knew but me, was they also had Guinness on tap.
Ok so they served it in plastic mugs. You just shouldn't
do that. Aside from that. This place was right on. A little
quiet, we felt like we were in someone's house. Cool little
fiber optic christmas tree, nice music going in the background,
waitress was hanging out with her friends. Good place for
my G-money impersonation.
Got a call from Ripcord while I was
there, and he was going to meet us at the Underground.
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+64 (+16) =
400 (416) oz |
Ripcord
changed our ordering practices from getting a single pitcher
to getting a pitcher plus a pint. Thats ok though. I was
having a good ol time now that we had lots more people.
My stomach was rejecting the concept of being so ridiculously
full. I mean really. Luckily Supa-G was there with the
assist. He helped finish anything I couldn't.
None of us were quite sure what was
up with the special. Grilled cheese with chili? Why no
l.t.m. option??
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64 (+16) =
464 (496) oz |
Champs, wow.. I was looking
at the picture and I almost forgot we went there. I haven't
been around to lots of bars in a long time. Usually I just
go to one place. Some times I will move to another if wherever
I am gets too busy. We hit up the upstairs version of Champs.
It was quiet, which is odd for them. I suppose everyone
was at Hokie House. This was the point where we started
realizing that people were looking at us funny for coming
in and getting A beer and then going away.
A bunch of places were asking if we
wanted food, which we kinda laughed at. Good thing we started
so early. It took a lot of effort to get through it all.
I was stuffed
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Poor Billy's had some
rosy cheeked old hokie who kept going on about how he was
in the Navy. I am really not sure why he was telling me.
He also hit on one woman that was trying to be polite and
just get by him. I did my best to distract him while she
escaped. The funny thing about Poor Billy's was, that we
started getting hungry. I don't know why, but I suppose
we just wanted something other than Guinness in our stomach.
Oh man what were we thinking. |

64 (+16) =
528 (576) oz |
64
(+16) =
592 (656) oz |
Boudreaux's was a good
place to get dessert. I went to the cheesecake. I was hoping
that there would be new desserts. No luck. I can't remember
why... but I was laughing my head off right off the bat.
I just totally lost it. They tell me it had something to
do with "Duh-guh-duh Duh-guh-duh" A new word I
contrived while trying to say something and losing my train
of thought.
The following pictures lay out the results
of my camera... me getting a picture taken of myself, me
taking a picture of G-money, a self portrait of myself laughing,
and it all finishes off with Julia modeling some whipped
cream. |
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Ah the finale, Rivermill.
We got a little confused who was buying the last round. So
when G-wiz and Ripcord both came back with pitchers, we were
pretty grumpy. Gaaaaa we did NOT need more Guinness we ended
up leaving the majority of the second pitcher there. You will
note that they serve you Guinness in plastic when you order
a pitcher, rather annoying. Just a pet peeve of anyone that
drinks Guinness. Rachel and Ripcord make their appearance
in the pics this round through, along with some G-Wiz and
Supa-G antics. Good night everyone... it's time to get some
rest. |

64 (+16) =
656 (736) oz
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I thought I had lost the list
of scores, it just turned up in a pocket, been throught the
wash a few times apparently. Here's the results.
Bar |
Head |
Taste |
Overall |
Price (per pint) |
PK's |
  |
     |
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$3.25 |
Hokie House |
|
|
|
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The Cellar |
    |
        |
    |
$2.75 |
Sharkey's |
  |
      |
   |
$4.00 (34 oz) |
Emilio's |
    |
        |
    |
$2.07 |
The Underground |
    |
      |
   |
$3.75 |
Champs |
   |
    |
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$2.75 |
Poor Billy's |
    |
     |
   |
$2.07 |
Boudreaux's |
   |
      |
   |
$3.75 |
Rivermill |
  |
     |
    |
$3.50 |
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