The Cocktail Hour: Beale Street Pub Crawl


It's fourth dimension striking the bluesiest street on earth, Beale Street, inwards Memphis, Tennessee.

 Three blocks of wall-to-wall bars as well as nightclubs amongst entirely the occasional souvenir shop to intermission it up.
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 On this crawl, nosotros striking 3 of them, starting amongst the Beale Street Taproom. Upon entering, it becomes straight off obvious that smoking is notwithstanding allowed inwards Tennessee bars. As we're merely inwards the outset stages of a cold, the smoky air grabs at our throats as well as makes breathing a chip labored.

The taproom boasts lx taps on the wall as well as nosotros induce got payoff of them to drive a Schafly Kolsch. Schafly is a St. Louis brewery working inwards the shadow of the giant Anheiser Busch there.  They are making merely about inroads, though, every bit the possessor told me inwards an email that they're available on tap inwards Busch Stadium there.

 It tastes similar a skillful low-cal beer but is notwithstanding amend than the King of Beers that inwards competes against.

 The Beale Street Taproom is also remembered every bit the house that Letty started her dearest matter amongst Fireball Whiskey, a Canadian cinnamon flavored version.

Next was Alfred's on Beale where a nice, stone duo serenaded us every bit nosotros tried the Ghost River Ale, which turned out to induce got a chip of a sour sense of savour that Letty truly liked.  We also tried the Yazoo Dos Beeros which had a hint of sweetness. Yes, that's right, sugariness 'n sour at Alfreds.

 Yuengling is also on tap all over Memphis then nosotros tried America's oldest beer here, too. Pretty good.

Last was Rum Boogie where Darren Jay as well as the Delta Souls pumped out merely about groovy blues spell nosotros tried Sam Adams...a decent lager we've had many times before...and Batch 19, a pre-prohibition manner lager made past times Coors that is truly pretty darn decent, amend than the Sam Adams that we're drinking against it.

 Watch the video for the consummate even out as well as come upwards along to i of the close musical places you'll always see.

 Cheers!

Darryl

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