Beer, food, and more drinks!

I'll keep this one short and sweet, however I write about our dinner and drinks last night! We weren't completely set on a place to eat, so we drove downtown Denver and looked for something appealing. We still have the Rocketbox on top of the car and honestly forgot about it until we heard the scrape on in the parking garage. We found a spot right away so it only hit once on the way up and once on the way down. 

We walked around where the 16th St. Mall begins and settled on the Wynkoop Brewery. We later learned that this used to be owned by the current governor of Colorado (he's up for reelection so this may not be accurate by the time you read it). Nate and I studied the brews carefully and decided to split a flight called, The Koop. The flight consisted of their Railyard (amber), B3k (black lager), seasonal wheat beer, Patty's Chili Beer, and Uber (light lager). Nate also ordered London Calling IPA which was a cask conditioned beer. My fav was the Railyard. The chili beer is nothing like I have ever had before. It is made with Anaheim and ancho chilies and you could definitely smell them! It tasted good and I did like it, however I don't know if I could consume copious amount. My nose was left smelling of peppers and it was just weird that you couldn't taste them. 

The food was very good too! I had Turlu turlu and Nate had a reuben brat. 

After, we planned on walking around and found a little jazz trio at another restaurant. We had a few drinks, listened to the trio, watched some college ball, and called it a night. 

One of the lessons we have learned since moving out of Wisconsin is that drinks are made WAY differently. There were some issues with an old fashioned sour and I had the worst drink ever a few weeks ago when we all ordered bloody marys. The glass was rimmed in salt, the drink was garnished with a single stalk of celery, and the drink tasted like vodka and ketchup. I tried to spice it up with Tabasco and pepper, but it just didn't cut it. 

Enjoy your bloodies Wisco! I'd love one from Centraal right about now!