A Beer Drinking Game For Sitting Outside

Liquid Gravity Nuthin But A Left Coast thing, IPA
A patio beer while I listen for reasons to drink it

I came up with my own beer drinking game. Would you like to know it?

Alright, good.

It’s simple. It’s nerdy. And it requires you to be outside – not the best time of year for this, I know. No, this is not something like the best games for playing in a beer garden or outside, it’s something else. Something for sitting.

My favorite part might be that you can play it by yourself, if you want. Plus, it’s good if you drink beer in the suburbs or in an apartment with a good window seat.

If you are a dork like me that enjoys sitting outside, relaxing with a beer, maybe listening to music, writing in a beer notebook and watching the clouds go by, have I got a drinking game for you!

It is a simple observational drinking game.

This is for beer because beer rules. But hey, I am not the drinking police – use this game with whatever drink you need to.

Here are your Beer Drinking Game For Sitting Outside, prompts.

Drink when you:

  • See a squirrel.
  • See or hear a plane.
  • Hear a car stereo.
  • Hear your neighbor fumbling around (sweeping, taking garbage out, ect.)
  • See a bird (one type per session).
  • Hear or hear a pine-cone, branch or leaf fall.
  • See a different squirrel.
  • Hear a train (two drinks).
  • See a rainbow (down the whole beer).
  • Hear wind chimes.
  • Hear a lawnmower.
  • See a different kind of bird.
  • Hear a leaf-blower.
  • Hear kids playing (one session only).
  • Hear a car horn.
  • Hear a gunshot (actually just go back inside if that happens).

You could add your own prompts too then print it out – if you have managed to keep a WORKING printer – printers are not easy to keep working.

On a nice spring day, you could get pretty lit playing this Beer Drinking Game For Sitting Outside.

(this game needs a real name)

Anyway, you can play at night too!! Because I also have a NIGHTTIME EDITION!

I mixed in some of the appropriate daytime edition prompts with additional nighttime ones that start at the top of the list.

Take a drink when you:

  • See a satellite.
  • See a shooting star (down the rest of your beer).
  • Hear a bat, owl or any bird, actually.
  • Hear a cricket (once a session only)
  • See your FIRST firefly of the night (regional).
  • Notice a light get turned on.
  • See or hear a plane.
  • Hear a car stereo.
  • Hear your neighbor on their patio (or balcony for apartment dwellers).
  • Hear a pine-cone, branch or leaf fall.
  • Hear a train.
  • Hear wind-chimes.
  • Hear a gunshot (get back inside until you hear the police sirens).

Remember to hydrate. Eat some snacks. Stock up on hangover preventives.

But most of all, have fun!

Cheers!!

(If you play this and have the time, I would love to hear about it in the blog comments!)

Music I’ve Been Listening To With My Beer: The Mountain Goats “Bleed Out” on Cassette

Can of “Taking It Easy” IPA from Original Pattern Brewing with a tape (all red) of the Mountain Goats “Bleed Out” cassette
Original Pattern Brewing’s “Taking It Easy” paired with “Bleed Out” cassette from The Mountain Goats

I don’t know where someone clued me into the Mountain Goats but they did. I am not gaga from them, but they are cool.

I liked the new song “Training Montage” enough that it motivated me enough to buy the tape of their new album “Bleed Out”.

It’s a fun red:

Kinda rad “Bleed Out” cassette

I drank an Original Pattern Brewing SIPA with it called “Taking It Easy”. It was a nice beer and I did what it told me and took it easy while I listened.

I recommend both things. ✌️🍻📻

Pliny The Elder Gives A Better Buzz

Pliny The Elder Russian River IPA
Pliny The Elder from Russian River

I had a Pliny the other night and I started getting a little buzz, and like… it was nice.

Better than nice, actually. I really felt like it was different. The buzz was different. Slightly elevated.

It hit differently than a standard DIPA. The quality of buzz was just a little bit better.

Maybe that is my brain thinking it is better because it is a Russian River beer.

When you think about it though, does that make it any less real? If my brain feels the buzz is better because it is a higher quality beer, doesn’t that make it real?

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War Games Is A Perfect Movie To Have With A Pliny

Yesterday I had a Pliny while watching War Games – an 80s movie I love that’s sadly become insanely timely again. Outside of a couple cheeseball moments, the original hacker flick, still holds up.

It’ll make you miss the beginnings of the Internet and the 80s bedroom of your rich friend.

Side note: “Jennifer & David” are one of the most adorable couples in film – mark it down.

A Pliny is a wonderful beer to have while watching this feels-like-a-Spielberg-film-but-isn’t, classic.

The Russian River and Pliny label esthetic has always had an analog feel, much like how War Games somehow feels like when the Internet was analog.

Different Pliny The Elder Bottles
Some of my Pliny The Elder bottles

My only wish is I had a second Pliny as mine went empty early on. I also wish I had a standup Galaga machine but that’s a whole other thing.

War Games is currently available on Netflix and Pliny is where you can find it – but you knew that.