Sunday, January 1, 2012
Beer Availability
This last August while I was in Boyceville for Picklefest, I noticed something that I always notice in Boyceville. It's the selection of beers available at the bars in town, but this time I was at a festival where there were a small variety of other vendors serving drinks. It's the strange lack of craft and import beers. You can get Heineken and (as I've said before) Leinenkugel's original. The more common beers available (and being drunk) were Bud, PBR, Coors Light, Bud Light Lime, Busch Light, Coors Light, Miller Light and Old Milwaukee. There were a number of other drinks like the cans of Jack Daniels Punch (which is a tasty fruity drink) and Jack Daniels Lynchburg Lemonade (which was only okay, at best). I had a couple of Jack Daniels Punches, but for the most part I drank Leinies Original and High Life. And as near as I could tell, very few people other than myself were drinking either of those beers. Busch Light and Coors Light seemed to be the most popular. No offense to either, but I just don't understand that selection of beer. It seems so limited. Nonetheless, one town over, in Menomonie, there is a grocery store with a very nice selection of craft beers and imports. Needless to say, Amanda and I typically buy a six pack or two on our way into town.