Michael Bevilacqua (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} time3) wrote,@ 2006-10-19 20:02:00 |
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Bachelor Party
Originally published at Bevilacqua.us.
I’m finally getting around to writing about the Bachelor Party my best man Bob threw for me last Saturday.
Bob and Bill arrived here at the house around 1PM and jumped into a van that Bob rented. We said we were going to head over to Victory Brewing Company, have lunch, get a tour of the brewery, and then head out to another brewpub.
The timing on this couldn’t have been any better as, on some cosmic whim, the night before I watched the Victory Brewing Company DVD with some people we had just met. See, Friday night while Elizabeth and I were getting dinner at Ortino’s Northside, our friend Stas showed up and started chatting with us. That turned into us meeting his Sister, Brother-in-Law and their older Brother. I ended up inviting them to sit at our table and have some beers and food. David, Stas’s brother-in-law and I got talking about homebrewing and that was it. We had a blast chatting and hit it off with all of these very friendly people. Later we headed over to David and his wife’s place, watched that Victory DVD and played poker all while enjoying a V12 and some Pumpkin Ale.
So by the time I was taking the tour I was following along like I had attended a theory lecture prior. And fortunately so, as the tour guide wasn’t very knowledgeable and couldn’t answer most of our questions. But we had a blast, and it was great to finally see the brew works I so hope someday to emulate on my own.
After this we decided to head over to Manayunk Brewing Company in Manayunk. This was my first time there, in fact, I haven’t been to Manayunk in over a decade. It’s truly something how much that area has changed. It’s very, uh… in. Lots of people, lots of cellphones, lots of SUVs.
Manayunk Brewpub was really something too. It reminded me of a NYC styled restaurant in it’s decor and food-type availability. I ended up eating two sushi rolls and chasing them with an ‘double’ IPA .Very good IPA, although the IPA was definitely only a single.
After that, for some reason, we headed over to Bahama Mamma’s in King of Prussia. It was interesting, only that no one ordered any food and I had one of their “reds” which was a lager and was very predictable tasting. So we decided to head out and go up to Bill’s picking up a six pack on the way. Unfortunately we missed the closing of what was on the way and just hung out at Bill’s for a while, which was fun. I haven’t been up that way in a while and got to watch him show off some of the embedded projects he’s working on in his spare time.
After that Bob dropped me off at home and I went to bed. Defintely a great day spent with many great friends.
Thanks to everyone who came out :-D
