A beer blog about drinking for yourself
Brought my daughter out to Clovis to meet a friend of hers and since I am forced to be in this town, I took the opportunity to have lunch at House Of Pendragon Brewing.
Great smash burger and a nice Cold IPA. Glad someone is keeping the CIPA style around.
I seriously wanted to find you the best outdoor games to play in a beer garden or just some dang grass or cement somewhere.
I have searched the Internet. I have played some outdoor/lawn games. I drank beer at outside parties. All so I can write this post. Alright, well, not ALL so I could write this post, I also had fun.
Because playing games outside is fun. Especially if you have a good beer in one hand. You can only walk around burning your beer calories for so long. You have bought your beer gifts for your man, it’s time to play.
But what are the best outdoor games for a beer garden or backyard? You are here for this, so I put together to the top games I would buy for my backyard (if I could afford them all) and/or the games I would expect to see at my local beer garden.
In some states, you are not allowed to operate a beer garden without one of these human-size giant connect-four style, games. At least that is what I hear. They are fun to play for a bit with the kids, as I have done this at multiple beer gardens. It gives you (and whatever child is around), a solid activity. It’s simply a must-have.
I imagine you can play this in a basement or a yard somewhere (no beer garden or taproom required).
Buy or check the price on Amazon.
If you want to keep it classy for your nice backyard, I suggest checking out this one.
The deadly game of Giggle and Go
I don’t like the name so I am not going to even say it.
But, yes! Finally, a game that can involve our beers. Screw the picture with the water bottle, we all know we are using our beer cans. That can get pretty high stakes too if you have a real craft beer sitting on top that you really don’t want getting busted all over the ground. High Stakes.
Again, Giant Jenga is another must-have for your “kid-friendly” brewery or your own personal use. I like to tackle a giant Jenga like it was a running back – I don’t know why, it’s just fun is all, okay? You’re okay with FUN, aren’t you? Sometimes I hurt myself, does that make you feel better? Good.
Now then:
(At least it’s a better price than this $50 Yeti bottle opener.)
Oh hellssss yeah! I didn’t know they had a giant Yahtzee set thing. I feel like this could get annoying to the people in the beer garden who are NOT playing as they will randomly hear someone cry out “YAHTZEE!” (or Yardzee in this case).
But screw them. They are just jealous they aren’t playing. I think I will be getting this one for the house, actually:
Check the price and maybe buy it on Amazon.
Nobody likes that it’s called “cornhole”. It’s a stupid name that opens itself up to snickering by those of us who have 14-year-old senses of humor.
Since that name is terrible, some people call it “bags” or “bean bag toss”.
You knew this would be on this list. Hell, lots of breweries hold cornhole tournaments and such, so having one of these around is a needed thing.
I am linking to the most generic of one, there are many to choose from though.
Check the prices on Amazon.
If you want to get some custom bags for cornhole, check out my friends at Local Bag Co.
Until I started researching for this post, I had no idea this was something that existed. It looks damn fun. The drawback would be needing a large flat and hard surface. And yes I see that it is made for indoors but it looks like I could place it in my backyard or driveway for the day and it would be fine.
Looks like you can play it drunk. With kids. Alone. All the things.
The only question is, would I play golf pool better while buzzed like I do when I play regular pool? Must find out.
Giant beer pong. Yep. Somebody made this. Of freaking course somebody made this. Hey, it’s probably damn fun. Why not? Beer pong is a fun party, lawn game, or drinking game.
I am not sure where I would store this though. But if you have the space…
Of all the items on this list, this may be the one I would like at my house the most. I literally put it on my personal Amazon wishlist after looking at this one.
Lots of game options. After looking at all that Amazon offers in this category, it looks the best for the price. It would be bold-ish to have bought this for a beer garden – just because it might get messed up. It would be fun while it lasted though.
I am including this one simply because I remember playing it when I was a kid so I started getting nostalgic.
I will let the game makers explain this game:
We took classic Tic Tac Toe and added some action!A Genius
Couldn’t all things use a little added action? I think so.
Yes, the basketball game is top on my personal list. But all of these outdoor games look rad and I kinda want them all. Seriously. Give me a couple of good beers (even if the beers make me sleepy) and one of these games and it will be a good day.
But anyway, I think those are enough things to get you on your way to a playful beer garden or backyard or NYC apartment rooftop. Don’t forget some outside lighting, btw.
Let me know in the comments what is your favorite thing to toss in your backyard is.
Cheers!
-Mikey
P.S. I have a top 5 list of hot Amazon items that are good for around the house that you may want to read up on.
P.S.S. Don’t forget to have some sunblock around for all that outdoors-ing.
So many people love Allagash White. It makes many beer geek’s Top Five Beers of All Time lists. But it tastes terrible to me. Always has. Sorry.
But, hey, what a good beer is can be very subjective. A large community inside Beer Twitter and beer folks in general, adore Allagash White. Some herald it as the perfect beer.
I could never stand the fucker.
A thin, old-tasting beer that feels like it was put through a Randall filled with mushed bananas? No thanks. It’s not Allagash’s fault, I know, it’s the style. Still.
Honestly, though, it had been a long time since I had one. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe my palate had changed. I am wrong a lot so I could be totally off.
So I decided to try this classic beer once again:
Yep. My review of Allagash White is: Still as awful as I remember. Maybe more so. So difficult to drink. Just gross.
Something in my chemical makeup rejects Belgian Yeast. I am sure it’s not Allagash Brewing’s fault. Doesn’t matter what brewer is making it, I assume it will taste bad to me. Maybe all Wheat Beers are bad to me. I am probably the problem.
Allagash Brewing is a great top-tier Indie brewer that I highly respect. But Belgian Wheat beers are terrible, and the King of the style is Allagash White. So, congrats on being the kings of a garbage beer style.
Alli’ White is a low-alcohol Belgian-Style Wheat Beer. The amount of alcohol is 5.2%. This means it has 157 calories (give or take a few) for one can or bottle.
I went to my neighborhood bottleshop today and noticed some new beers from a brewery I had never heard of called Hello Friend.
Normally I am too tight with my beer budget to risk trying something from new breweries, but today I had some rare cash to take chances with.
I look for beers with Mosaic hops first off and this brewery had several with Mosaic – if you’re a brewery that uses a lot of Mosaic you are already pulling me in, brother.
Over the past few days I have had four of their beers. One I forgot ??♂️, but the other three were:
If I had to choose my favorite of the four three… Till I Crumble. But they are all nice beers.
Come to find out this is a brewery operating out of Berkeley’s the Rare Barrel. They are on the property but have their own “area” I suppose.
I think it’s a good idea to make a separate brewery in your own brewery, if you want to make a different style beer with its own marketing.
If you are interested and in California, you can get their beer here.